@article{2017,title={ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN QUASING THE COUP ATTEMPT DATED JULY 15},abstractNode={Social media has played a critical role by way of all its elements both in ruining the plans of coup plotting soldiers, discouraging them in their attempt and in citizens joining against the coup. Social media has ensured the spirit of taking a stand against the coup attempt to be formed, the democracy to come into prominence, the awareness in relation thereto to be disseminated and grow stronger. In this study, the role of social media in quashing the coup attempt dated July 15 has been examined. In order to set forth the role of social media in quashing the coup attempt dated July 15, the contents of the messages twittered from the Twitter accounts of both Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of the Republic of Turkey, and Presidency of the Republic of Turkey at the night of July 15 and on the day of July 16 have been discussed and examined within the critical discourse analysis model of Van Dijk. As a conclusion, the fact that the critical figures in public administration like the President, Prime Minister and also ordinary citizens each have turned into publishers and united the society in order to oppose the armed forces who were the coup partisans has revealed the power of social media.},author={Sercan Ayhan SUNGUR},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}