A Comparative Discourse Analysis of TRT World and Al Jazeera News Channels on the News Reports of the Syrian War

Sim, Şükrü; Goksu, Fatih

doi:10.26650/connectist2019-0068

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“…Based on in-depth interviews with TRT World journalists, Elswah and Howard (2021) argue that TRT World has shifted its style from being Turkey's public diplomacy tool into becoming the AKP's voice to the world. Since the Turkish government has a direct impact on the content and the type of news stories broadcast in TRT World, the channel employs official discourse, legitimizes patriotic views, and presents nationalistic messages, instead of challenging AKP officials (Sim and Göksu, 2019: 170).…”

Section: Controlling the Turkish Tv Industry Via State Apparatuses: A...mentioning

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Content is power: Cultural engineering and political control over transnational television

Algan

Kaptan

2023

International Communication Gazette

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Since the 2000s, the television industry in Turkey has emerged as a transnational business and as one of the largest TV program exporters worldwide. However, Turkish television is still largely national in its production practices and content, and thus, highly vulnerable to the domestic political landscape and media regulations of the government. In the last two decades, rather than endorsing the independent growth of this emerging industry in the international markets, the Turkish government has erected barriers by tightening censorship and passing new regulations to control national television and its content production. The AKP government deployed various state apparatuses, including Turkey's public broadcasting channel (TRT), English language news channel (TRT World), and the regulatory agency Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) to foster the type of television content that can ideologically serve the AKP's conservative and neo-Ottomanist agendas. Drawing on the political economy of media and through critical analysis, this paper analyzes how these state mechanisms are used to instrumentalize TV exports and media institutions in service of President Erdoğan's cultural, economic, and foreign policy agendas within the country and abroad. By investigating the tension between the state's ideological project and the regional, transnational, and global mediasphere, our work sheds light on how the implementation of the government's new media and cultural policies, top-down directives and pressures from the state and government on both the TV industry and its audience, and South-to-South cultural flows have shaped the Turkish TV industry and its content in the last two decades.

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Section: Controlling the Turkish Tv Industry Via State Apparatuses: A...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Content is power: Cultural engineering and political control over transnational television

Algan

Kaptan

2023

International Communication Gazette

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Depression’s response to fear tactics: An integration of health promotion principles, eye-tracking technology and clinical tools

Lueck

Brannon

Silva

et al. 2019

Patient Education and Counseling

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Novoa-Jaso

2024

JLAC

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Media discourse around particular subjects comes to shape people’s understanding of that topic. In particular, the words used to describe situations of violence and conflict may colour public perceptions. This paper identifies the main words used to describe the Russia-Ukraine conflict by three international media outlets, Al Jazeera, Euronews and CGTN, from February to May 2022. Following the methodology of corpus-assisted discourse studies, it analyses the nouns used and their most frequent collocates, showing how these reveal the different ways the war was represented in these three media. The results are discussed in the light of differing theories concerning Chinese and Western stances to the conflict, illustrating media roles in the shaping and reproduction of dominant discourses.

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A Comparative Discourse Analysis of TRT World and Al Jazeera News Channels on the News Reports of the Syrian War

Abstract: A Comparative discourse analysis of TRT World and Al Jazeera news channels on the news reports of the Syrian war. Connectist:

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Content is power: Cultural engineering and political control over transnational television

Content is power: Cultural engineering and political control over transnational television

Depression’s response to fear tactics: An integration of health promotion principles, eye-tracking technology and clinical tools

Is this War?

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