50 HATE SPEECH IN SOCIAL MEDIA: LGBTI PERSONS Zuhal AKMEŞE Istanbul University, Turkey zuhalakmese@gmail.com Kemal DENİZ Istanbul University, Turkey kemal.deniz@istanbul.edu.tr Zuhal AKMEŞE was born in Mardin at 1982. After she was graduated from İzmir Girls High School, she continued Kocatepe University Faculty of Education Social Sciences Teaching. Later in 2010 she received her bachelor degree ranking first in class from Ege University Communication Faculty Radio‑ TV Cinema and then she gained Master of Arts degree with the thesis “After 2000 Representation of Youth in Turkish Cinema”. She began to her PhD İstanbul University Communication Faculty Radio‑ TV Cinema department. Besides this she is working as a research assistant at İstanbul University Communication Faculty Radio‑TV Cinema department since 2013. She wrote many article about communication, documentary and photography. She produced eight short films and five documentaries. Kemal DENİZ was born in Istanbul in 1983. After his primary and secondary education, he completed his undergraduate degree in Beykent University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Cinema‑TV and Graphic Design (Double Major) in 2006. He accomplished his masters degree in 2009 at the Institute of Social Sciences, Cinema‑TV Department of the same university. After working in some production companies and a news channel, he started his PhD education in Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences, Radio Television and Cinema Program in 2013. He continues to work as a research assistant at Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema since 2014. Television studies, social media, framing, political communication and gender are amongst his research areas. Abstract Nowadays, social media networks can have serious effects in terms of communication, news circulation, construction of perspective and perception. The media, as its content, present the dominant ideology or social point of view through the arguments of power. The issue of our study constitutes the language and perspective used in social media for hate speech and social media for LGBTI individuals. In this context, LGBTI persons are exposed hate crimes, violence, even murders in or related to the sharings of facebook, twitter, blogs and so on in social media networks. In this context, the study aims primarily to analyze the negative effects of hate speech on LGBTI persons and hate crimes committed on LGBTI persons, by analyzing hate speech, the mediaʹs view of LGBTI persons and the discourse of LGBTI persons exposed to hate crime. HATE SPEECH IN SOCIAL MEDIA: LGBTI PERSONS Introduction Today, social media networks can have a very serious impact on communication, news circulation, building a social perspective and creating perception. Individuals share many things about social life through the profiles they create on facebook, twitter, instagram etc. and they continue to socialize by establishing their relations through these networks. Thus, social media platforms have become one of the indispensable elements of social life in recent times.