Media In Turkey Research Articles

Approaches Towards Femicides on Social Media in Turkey: A Sociological Analysis

The subject of this study is femicide in Turkey. Femicide has gradually increased in Turkey in the last 25 years and has become an important social problem on the country's agenda. Femicide is also an important study topic in social sciences. It is observed that a descriptive analysis of limited information about the murder is made, mostly based on newspaper and internet news in related studies. It is seen that the opinions and approaches of the society about this important problem are not systematically examined. This study aims to learn the causes, effects, solution, views and approaches of the society towards the perpetrators and victims of femicides. The study aims to explain and understand these dimensions expressed about the murders. The research was designed on the basis of the qualitative research paradigm. The data of the research consists of 1100 comments on 20 femicides on the popular social media platform Facebook. The data obtained from Facebook were categorized and interpreted by content analysis. In conclusion, it has been revealed that society mostly described femicides with a female-oriented and legal approach, and also considers factors related to family, education, politics, religion and culture as important. While society generally considers the victim (woman) as pure, clean and innocent in femicides, it depicts the perpetrator (man) as bad and dangerous. The reaction to femicides has religious, emotional, pessimistic and rational dimensions. In the solution of femicides, the general tendency is based on law and punishment.

Media Systems and Media Capture in Turkey: A Case Study

This article attempts to explain the current situation of the Turkish media system through the media systems approach as a case study with special attention to the concept of media capture. We propose that the Turkish media system’s shift is heavily influenced by media capture. We associate four of Hallin and Mancini’s media systems concepts related to the effects of media capture in the Turkish media system shift: rise of political parallelism, erosion of journalistic professionalism (ethics), controlling role of the state, and government-friendly ownership concentration. In explaining the shift from a pluralist polarised to captured<em> </em>media in Turkey, we acknowledge the potential for new, independent, and alternative media to emerge. The article also comments that the potential reason for this shift from a captured liberal to a captured media in Turkey is the climate of fear that has allowed successive governments in Turkey to attempt media capture. In general, this article attempts to provide insight into the current relationship between media and politics in Turkey.

A MEDIA PANORAMA: ANALYSIS OF THE MESSAGES PUBLISHED BY THE JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION OF TURKEY IN TERMS OF “PRESS FREEDOM”

Turkish Journalists Association (TGC) is Turkey's largest professional media organization. As of November 2022, there are 3 thousand 780 permanent members. In order to become a member of the Association, it is required to working under a contract in the written and visual media, subject to the Press Labor Law No. 5953 (commonly known as the Law No.212), to have a press card and to have at least 2 years of professional experience. It is seen that TGC is particularly sensitive to the issue of freedom of the press, not only protecting the professional and personal rights of its member journalists, but also focusing on the general problems of the media and holding press statements, conferences, panels, demonstrations, etc. in this direction. In recent years, the Association has been making public its objections, reservations and criticisms about freedom of the press through press statements (messages) at almost every opportunity. These press releases are published both on the Association's website and shared via social media and e-mail. In this study, it has been tried to determine which topics, words/concepts and to what extent the freedom of the press matters in 155 press releases/messages published by TGC between January 1, 2022 and November 1, 2022, by analyzing content and discourse. Thus, a panorama of the main problems faced by the media in Turkey in recent years has been drawn through the messages of the largest professional organization of the press.

Street Food in Visual Media in Turkey: Food Mediatization in Tourism

Visual media has played a significant role in driving various transformations since its inception. The media has often portrayed gastronomy as a visual spectacle, showcasing allure, a reassuring image, and authenticity. Countries endeavor to enhance their gastronomy tourism by not only presenting their human and natural assets but also highlighting their distinct food and beverage cultures through visual media. This study aims to analyze the depiction of street food in Turkey in both national and international visual media and to explore the extent to which the promotion of street cuisine has been leveraged within the context of gastronomy tourism. The study seeks to contribute to future efforts aimed at making street food a compelling attraction in Turkey???s gastronomy tourism. For this study, an extensive literature review was conducted and semiotic analysis was applied to visual media components. National and international productions featuring street food in Turkey were analyzed across 10 distinct categories. ??stanbul emerged as the most prominently featured city in these productions. Furthermore, ??stanbul???s multicultural nature and its history of migration from various regions allow it to reflect the culinary cultures of different parts of Turkey. Based on the findings within the scope of this study, the emotions, thoughts, and messages evoked by visual media materials depicting street food in Turkey can be summarized as follows: a sense of camaraderie, social engagement, delightful gastronomic experiences, intriguing encounters, a feeling of familial warmth and authenticity, nostalgia, a sense of belonging, cross-cultural interaction, and visually striking presentations.

Suicide risk and mental health in university students according to place of accommodation

Recently, the suicides of university students staying in state dormitories have been covered in the press and social media in Turkey. This coverage has led to the perception that staying in state dormitories increases the risk of suicide. This study aims to examine the effect of university students’ accommodation on suicide risk and mental health. In this study, data were collected from 528 students studying in the 2022–2023 academic year. Suicide probability scale and Brief symptom inventory were used as data collection tools. Parametric analyses (t-test and Anova) were used in data analysis. There is no significant effect of accommodation on suicide risk (p = 0.152), but there is a significant effect of accommodation on mental health (p = 0.010). This effect is observed between the home and family. Among university students, there was no significant difference in the effect of place of accommodation on suicide risk. However, it is seen that the place of accommodation is effective on mental health. It can be stated that this situation is of economic origin.

The Impact of New Social Media Technologies on the Populist Phenomenon

This research studies how social media has transformed the populist politics. Qualitative research study will be done by means of examining the case of populist politicians use of social media in Turkey in 14 May 2023. At the first sectition of research, the difference between main stream media and social media are clarified. At the second part of the resaerch, the relavence of social media in populist communication is studied. In this section the research attempts to answer why populist politicians prefer social media platforms? The third part of the study, will investigate how new social communicative tools like twitter and instagram contextualisatıon of new insights in to an old phenomenon of populism? In the Fourth section of the reseach, the case of Turkey’s election will be investigated to see how use of social Media has affected populism in turkey? In brief, this research is a case study that looks how social media affected populist politicians in Turkey.

The tension between contemporary and modern art: The emergence of new media in Turkey, the development of digital art and the changing institutions/institutional structure

As a new art form of a new world that technology has changed and transformed, new media art and other forms of creation associated with it have different stages of development in different countries. Questions such as the development of this form in Turkish art, the visibility of the artists working in this field in the international art field, what qualities the created works have and what stages they have passed through to capture the current digital identity (aesthetics) have not yet been fully clarified in the literature. In this context, the research takes an important role in filling the gap in the literature by chronologically addressing this change process in Turkish art and analyzing the progress of new media art from past to present. In accordance with this purpose; first of all, the relationship between modern art and contemporary art and the changing dimensions of cultural structure are examined. In this context, new media arts and digitalized art creations, which exist as a new form of contemporary/contemporary art, are included in the research through the development of the screen phenomenon and analyzed. In the continuation of the research, the development of new media in Turkey, the pioneering steps taken in this context, the first exhibitions, different creation mechanisms, collaborations in the formation process, alternatives for exhibition strategies are analyzed. Then, the development of new media and the process of change in institutions and institutional structures are discussed in two different aspects in terms of the exhibition process of the work and the creation process, and the collaborations of different disciplines in the creation process of digital art are examined with examples from the world and Turkey. The research, in which the foundations of the change between contemporary and modern art are analyzed through new media art and digitalized art creations, is a qualitative research using the relational analysis method and the analyzed works are included in the research with purposeful element sampling.

Türkiye Medyasının 2021 Yazı Yangınlarını Haberleştirmesi

In this article, some of the assumptions commonly put forward in media research about wildfires and disasters will be examined by
 exploring how the 2021 fires in Turkey were framed in newspapers with differing editorial and political views. Within the scope of this
 reporting, the discussion will centre on how these reports of fires, omitted any mention of climate change and its impact on these disasters.
 Media organizations evaluate disasters through the lens of their geographical and national positions as well as power relations, without
 associating them with global events such as climate change. The media in Turkey covered the fires within the framework of their current
 political and social conflicts. This situation has seen newspapers deliver news focused on extinguishing fires, post-disaster response
 discussions and 'last minute' developments, instead of offering solutions on climate change and the implementation of mitigation or
 adaptation policies. In this research, through the use of frame analysis method, the approaches and the actors that newspapers represented
 while covering wildfires are analyzed. In the next phase, news frames are studied whether they are oriented to reveal the causes of the
 wildfires (diagnostic) or to propose solutions (prognostic) regarding firefighting or climate adaptation policies. The publication which
 provides most solutions, referred to solutions in 14,2% of all its news. Regardless of their political views all newspapers in the sample
 generally proposed solutions regarding the recovery process rather than proactive or preventative climate adaptation policies.

Book Review: Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria, by Noah Amir Arjomand

Book Review: <i>Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria</i>, by Noah Amir Arjomand

Worsening Safety Conditions for Women Journalists in Turkey’s Alternative News Media

ABSTRACT This study, drawing on alternative journalism theory takes a postcolonial feminist approach to investigating the lived experiences and gender-based safety problems of women journalists working for alternative media in Turkey. It evaluates the impact on their professional and private lives of Islamism, populism, nationalism and authoritarianism which intersect in this patriarchal autocracy. The thematic analysis of the data gathered qualitatively by 15 in-depth interviews reveals that most of the safety threats to alternative women journalists stem from security forces in the field and arbitrary judicial sanctions in the courthouses. According to the interviewees, the authoritarian government that sees critical journalism as the greatest enemy controls and oversees these assaults. Furthermore, women journalists suffer from the unsustainable working conditions of alternative news media. Alternative media theories would expect these institutions to be gender-equal and pro-labor, but the prevalent indifference to women’s labor and gender rights demonstrates that this normative approach is not justified. However, women still feel encouraged to continue journalism, which they consider an important tool for empowerment not only for themselves but also all “otherized” identities. Moreover, women’s solidarity backed by the feminist movement is the primary source of resilience.

When Fake News and Personal Experience Contradict: Limits to Post-Truth in Turkey

ABSTRACT While many studies examine Erdoğan’s growing control over the Turkish media sector, there are hardly any studies that look at how post-truth affects the low-income urban consumers of partisan media in Turkey, which this article aims to do. This focus group study reveals that the partisan media has a significant impact on the views and behaviour of the relatively less educated urban poor, but personal experiences prove a significant factor in the success of post-truth politics. If interviewees are locked into a relation of interest with Justice and Development Party organizations, particularly if they are recipients of social aid, their loyalty to Erdoğan and inclination to believe fake news from partisan media are stronger. However, when their personal experiences are diametrically different from the claims made in fake news, these individuals are harder to be persuaded by partisan media.

Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear

ABSTRACT This article examines the historical roots of the role of successive Turkish governments’ fear of media and Turkish media’s fear of government authority with respect to the development of press freedom over the long run and closely analyzes the historical pressures imposed on journalists through legal and informal means. We focus particularly on the economic and political pressure on the media in Turkey and offer three arguments regarding the fear in Turkish media: (1) Media fear is historical rather than a rupture that happened during the Justice and Development Party era; (2) out of fear of losing power, the governments use structural, legislative and extra-legal factors to the advantage of the ruling party to support a friendly media-ecology; and (3) the repressed media attempt to come out of this ecology of fear by utilizing new tactics of reporting, such as alternative media and citizen journalism.

Affective intensities of polarization: the making of the Islamist/secularist divide through articulations of news media in Turkey

ABSTRACT This study examines discursive articulations in mainstream news media in Turkey, through which the Islamist/secularist divide is imagined. Building upon discourse-theoretical analysis and affect theory, the study states that news media become the ultimate domain in which polarization is fuelled by affective forces. To illustrate this point, I draw upon the representations of Istanbul’s conquest by Ottoman forces, as a privileged signifier in articulations of Turkishness. I examine the opinion articles published in mainstream news media, following the framework of ‘reading for affect’. Accordingly, I identify two contrasting moods attributing affective value to Istanbul’s conquest. Hyperbolic narratives are central to Islamist imaginaries, as they attach utmost significance to Istanbul’s conquest. Conversely, secularist imaginaries are mostly built upon satire of disdain especially in relation to the celebrations of the conquest. Rhetorical works play a pivotal role in the signification of the city’s conquest. Rather than plainly constructing networks of meanings, they are the affective elements putting Istanbul’s conquest on the stage. From that vantage point, the study argues that affect and signification are not autonomous layers of discourse. Affective intensities are indeed articulated in chains of signifiers that conclude in the sedimentation and fixation of meanings.

Determinants of Consumer Attitudes Towards Social Media Advertising: Evidence from the Turkish Airline Industry

Abstract As the prevalence of social media increases, it is considered as an important promotion outlet for the airline industry. The main motivation behind this paper is to identify the determinants of attitude towards social media advertising in the context of the Turkish airline industry. The model of advertising value lies in the theoretical foundation of this paper. Employing a convenience sampling, a questionnaire was completed by 123 users of social media in Turkey. The Partial Least Squares Structural Equation modeling (PLS-SEM) approach was employed to test the hypothesized relationships. Results revealed that informativeness, entertainment, and credibility are positively associated with advertising value, thus affecting attitude towards social media advertising. On the other hand, irritation has no significant relation with advertising value.

Vaccination Refusal Debate on Social Media in Turkey: A Content Analysis of the Comments on Instagram Blogs.

Background:This study was conducted to identify the reasons for vaccine refusal of individuals/parents by analyzing the comments on the pages screened with the keyword vaccine refusal on social media.Methods:Qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the study. Within the scope of the study, 7 pages, 216 posts and 3446 comments found with the keyword #vaccine refusal were analyzed. The comments obtained within the scope of the study were evaluated using content analysis and theme analysis methods. The study data were collected between Sep 1st and 11th, 2020.Results:The comments on vaccine refusal were found to increase in 2018 and 2019, especially in September, October, November, and December. The reasons for vaccine refusal were grouped under 2 themes as individual reasons and vaccine-related reasons as a result of the analysis of the comments. The most commonly used word in the text analysis, consisting of 10,428 words mentioned in the posts, was found to be vaccine (3.2%).Conclusion:Individuals/parents refuse vaccination for reasons such as distrust of vaccine content, disbelief in the need for vaccines, distrust of pharmaceutical companies, previous experiences, like-minded people/platforms, religious reasons, and preference for alternative health care approaches.

An Examination of the PhD Theses on Social Media in Turkey

Sosyal medya sayesinde iletişim alanında yakınlık ve uzaklık da anlamını büyük ölçüde yitirmiştir. Gündelik yaşamdaki her türlü ilişkide sosyal medyanın rolü giderek artmaktadır. Bu çalışmada sosyal medya olgusunun bilimsel anlamda ne derece ve ne türden çalışmalarla ele alındığının ortaya konulması amaçlanmıştır. Yükseköğretim Kurulu (YÖK) Ulusal Tez Merkezi verilerine bağlı olarak yapılan literatür taramasının sonucunda, sosyal medya konusunda Türkiye’de yapılan doktora tezlerinin başlangıç tarihinin 2011 yılı olduğu ve 2020 yılı Ocak ayı itibarıyla bu konuda toplam 148 doktora tezi olduğu ancak bunlardan 135’ine erişim izni verildiği görülmüştür. Türkiye’de sosyal medya konulu doktora tezlerinin hazırlandığı üniversiteler incelendiğinde toplam 45 üniversitede çalışıldığı, bu üniversitelerin %89,7’sinin (38) devlet üniversitesi, %10,3’ünün ise (7) vakıf üniversitesi olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Sosyal medya konulu doktora tezlerinde kullanılan araştırma yöntemleri incelendiğinde; %50,4’ün de nicel araştırma yöntemlerinin kullanıldığı, %33,3’ünde nitel yöntemlerin, %16,3’ünde ise karma (hem nicel hem nitel) yöntemlerin kullanıldığı görülmüştür. Kullanılan araştırma teknikleri incelendiğinde; ilk sırada %42,2 ile anket ve ölçeklerin bir arada kullanıldığı çalışmalar gelmektedir. İkinci sırada %14,8 ile içerik analizi tekniği gelmekte, üçüncü sırada ise %5,9 ile görüşme tekniği gelmektedir. Birey ve toplum hayatında giderek daha fazla yer edinmesine bağlı olarak bu konu ile ilgilenen bilim dallarının da çeşitlendiği ve buna bağlı olarak araştırma yöntem ve tekniklerinde de aynı yönde bir artışın olduğu belirtilebilir.

Mediating Role of Satisfaction with Life in the Effect of Self-Esteem and Education on Social Media Addiction in Turkey

The increasing use of social media due to various individual and social reasons may trigger some psycho-social issues. What can be effective in reducing social media addiction, which causes social and economic problems, is an important issue today. This study aimed to investigate the mediation effect of satisfaction with life in the impact of self-esteem and education level on social media addiction in individuals. The study was designed as cross-sectional, and the sample consists of 952 volunteers over the age of 15 using social media in Turkey. A personal information form, the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale were used as data collection tools in the study. The data were analyzed with SPSS 23.0 Program and PROCESS macro plug-in. Demographic questions such as age, gender, and marriage were used as control variables. As a result of the research, it was determined that satisfaction with life had a mediation role in the effect of self-esteem and education level on social media addiction. Self-esteem and education level improved satisfaction with life, and increased satisfaction with life resulted in less social media addiction. These results demonstrate the importance of implementing specific practices based on self-esteem and education, especially for vulnerable groups, to minimize the problems that may arise with the excessive use of digital apps and social media.

The Turkish and Syrian Customers' Attitudes and Behaviors Towards Islamic Banking in Turkey

Day after day, the Competition in the banking sector increases; the customer perspective became significant element in the banking sector. This shows how important it is to determine the point of view and perceptions of the beneficiaries of Islamic banks. The study aims to examine Turks and Syrian customers' preference and behaviors to find out the reasons affect their choosing between Islamic and conventional banks in Turkey. According to the findings; age, occupation, and monthly income influence both Turkish and Syrian customers in Islamic banking preferences. However, the gender does not affect either Turkish or Syrian customers in their selection. Education was found to be an influencer factor for Syrian customers, but not for Turkish. However, after comparing the results of Turks and Syrians, Islamic banking selection-related differences were found between Turks and Syrians with regards to gender, education level, profession, and monthly income, but no age-related differences were found. The research results suggest that there is an effect of bank reputation, customer awareness, service quality, and employee behavior on the customers' preferences toward Islamic banking, whereas the religion factor neither affect Turks nor Syrians. The mass media in Turkey, however, affects the Turks; but does not affect Syrians.

TÜRK DİJİTAL PLATFORMLARINDA AŞI KARŞITI HAREKETİN ANALİZİ: EKŞİSÖZLÜK VE FACEBOOK ÖRNEĞİ

The anti-vaccination movement turned into a public health problem also in Turkey. This paper analyzes the vaccine-related posts of one of the anti-vaccination group on Facebook. The group was selected as a “purposive sample”. Also, vaccine-related entries from EkşiSözlük, one of Turkey’s most popular collaborative hypertext dictionaries, were analyzed. The study aimed to find out if digital social media in Turkey were the main hub for the anti-vaccination movement, as this is the case in several countries, while also aiming to find out the motivations of anti-vaxxers. The Thematic Content Analysis (TCA) of Facebook messages and EkşiSözlük entries showed that Facebook appeared as a platform used more by anti-vaccination, mostly religious anti vaccination groups for disseminating their ideas. In contrast, very few anti-vaxxer messages were seen on EkşiSözlük, used by more secular and usually educated people. It was seen that anti-vaxxers were motivated by postmodern allegedly “scientific” and religious arguments, both of which are often shaped by conspiracy thinking.

Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors of University Students Regarding the Harassment on Social Media in Turkey

Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors of University Students Regarding the Harassment on Social Media in Turkey