This article explores the issue of tabloidization of news in the Turkish context by analysing the news texts of four commercial television channels and one public service channel. The analysis looks at how actors and themes are represented, framed and focused and how language is used, both quantitatively and qualitatively. The article argues that the news personalizes and tabloidizes politics. The two main actors in the news on the commercial channels are the poor and ordinary people - with their tragedies and misfortunes - and the rich - with their wealth, gossip and glamorous lifestyle, while the public service channel mainly represents parliamentary actors, especially those in government.
Özet:Bu makale dört özel TV kanalında ve TRT'de bir hafta boyunca yayınlanan haberlerin hem biçimsel (sunucu öğesi, sunuş biçimi, görsel öğeler, müzik), hem de içerik bakımından (hangi aktörler ve temaların nasıl temsil edilip çerçevelendiği) nicel ve nitel analizine dayanır. Bu analizin sonuçlarından birisi, özel TV kanallarındaki haberlerde esas olarak iki aktörün yer aldığıdır: Geçirdikleri kazalar ve trajediler ile yoksullar/ 'sıradan' insanlar ve gösterişli yaşam tarzları, varlıkları ve dedikodularıyla zenginler/ ünlüler. TRT'de hala protokol haberciliğinin devam ettiğini vurgulayan araştırmada özel kanallarda haberlerin nasıl siyaseti kişiselleştirdiği ve tabloidleştirdiği ve medya gruplarının kendi çıkarları için haberleri nasıl kullandıkları örneklerle gözler önüne serilmektedir.
News Reporting in Turkish Television and Tabloidisation
Abstract:This article aims to explore the issue of tabloidisation of the news in the Turkish context by analysing the news texts of four commercial channels and a public service channel. The analysis covers both the formal characteristics and the content of the news in Turkey. While the former consists of elements such as the presenter and presenting style, visual elements, and music, the content is considered mainly by focusing on how actors and themes are represented, framed and focused and how the language is used, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Examples from the news are provided throughout the text to show the relationship within the specific Turkish context. The article argues that TRT stili relies on the protochol news reporting while in the commercial channels the news personalises and tabloidises politics, and at the same time pays less attention to international issues. Furthermore, the media groups exploiting the news for their own gain are critically examined in the article as well as the two main actors of the news: poor people vvith their tragedies and accidents, and rich people vvith their wealth, gossip and glamorous life style.
Our article explores how diasporic journeys and identities are remembered and represented through the visual narratives of DiasporaTürk, a Turkish diasporic media presence consisting of a Twitter account, an Instagram page, and two books. These engagements revive past (dis)affects and highlight the contemporary relevance of nostalgia, sorrow and victimization as key themes in the migration experience of ‘guest-workers’ from Turkey. The evidentiary force of the index, inhabiting fictional characters while looking like factual and archival material, seems thus to both acknowledge and validate migrated ‘guest-workers’, who, as subaltern groups, have otherwise received little praise or recognition in Turkey or ‘host’ countries. At the same time, while converging past and present (dis)affects associated with Turkish migration, DiasporaTürk contributes to reaffirming the reduction and homogenization of official/normative collective memories of migration via concrete visibilities/presences and invisibilities/absences.
This text discusses the relationship between academic research and activism by expanding the debate to teaching. Firstly, the literature on the connection between academia and research will be reviewed with a focus on gender studies. Afterwards, the results of the small-scaled research which was conducted with undergraduate and postgraduate students on activism and research in 2022 will be summarized.
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