Hate Sayings in Online Newspapers’ Reader Comments: Reina Attack Example

In the difficult time the society has been suffering recently, significant instances of intolerance due to the experienced events have also been observed in the new media environment. Reflections of social hatred are evident in the reader's comments in the online newspaper news are evident particularly in the new environment that allows users to create content, in which hate speech continuously increases. It is possible to identify the aspects of social hatred in these interpretations of intolerance that focus on prejudice, belief and denomination, and discrimination against foreigners and immigrants. In this study, an investigation was conducted by analyzing the news in the online newspapers and the discourse about the readers' comments about the event related to the terror attack against Istanbul's night club, Reina, at night of 31 December 2016. The sampling rates of the newspapers included in the sample group were taken into account and it has been aimed to determine the means of expressions of hate speech which increased the social hatred. As a result of the study, hate speech in different categories, aganist to foreigners is convoyed through by the reader comments.