PERCEPTION ABOUT ACADEMICS in TURKEY: The POWER of ANONYMITY

This article analyzes perception about academics in Turkey through a very popular website insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(eksisozluk.com);. The article employs systematic analysis to identify and analyze comments about academics in the website. Eksisozluk.com is chosen because people can anonymously write on there; therefore they can tell something which generally cannot be said face to face. When we looked at the site, we saw top eight titles about academics and there are hundreds of comments for each entry. We have analyzed fifty of comments for each entry which makes four hundred of comments in total. The comments are analyzed by the method of content analysis and the results affirm there is a high negative perception about academics in Turkey.