Media Monitoring

Media Monitoring

As Kaos GL Association, we have been monitoring the media coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) since 2009. With the media monitoring reports we publish every year, we try to draw attention to discriminatory discourse, hate speech, hate crime and prejudice in the media and monitor the course of the media.


Our media monitoring at Kaos GL consists of three pillars. As part of our year-long research, we examine news and articles scanned from the keywords we have identified. Texts in both print and digital media are included in our research.


In the first phase of the research, we publish review articles on the texts we choose weekly at kaosGL.org. In the second phase, we focus on hate speech on social media and the internet and publish monthly reports and weekly analysis articles. In the third phase of the research, we classify the news that is filtered daily according to our scale. In our scaling process, we evaluate the texts within the scope of rights journalism as well as technical features such as title, newspaper, page, subject of the text, type of text (news, interview or column). We publish the results of this year-long study in the Media Monitoring Report. At the end of the year, all of these studies constitute the Media Monitoring Report and the report provides a comprehensive framework for LGBTI+ representation in the internet and print media.