The Failure of Turkish Mainstream Media: A Framing Comparison of The Web Versions of Turkish Newspapers

The objective of this study is to define the notion of mainstream/professional journalism by comparatively exploring the historical conditions of media systems development to contrast it with the infrastructure of political culture and professional culture of the past century in Turkey. After th...

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Main Authors: Hüseyin Özarslan, Mehmet Salih Güran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Akademik Bilişim Araştırmaları Derneği 2015-04-01
Series:Online Academic Journal of Information Technology
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ajit-e/issue/54435/740918
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description The objective of this study is to define the notion of mainstream/professional journalism by comparatively exploring the historical conditions of media systems development to contrast it with the infrastructure of political culture and professional culture of the past century in Turkey. After this theoretical background, we implemented a comparative framing analysis of an actual policy debate in the Turkish press to conclude on the changing and not changing conditions that prevail in the politics/media system and culture. In the light of the framing analysis, we found that the current state of the Turkish media system constitutes still a mostly dysfunctional social interaction platform that is caught between media parallelism and tabloidization and represents a largely underdeveloped professionalism that is still insufficient for the development of a civil society. Nonetheless, we found on the other hand that the fundamental values and notion of mainstream media is still represented to make hope for a future development towards a functioning media system.
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spelling doaj.art-5225c04994c941caadd403c51a93c94b2023-02-15T16:08:59ZengAkademik Bilişim Araştırmaları DerneğiOnline Academic Journal of Information Technology1309-15812015-04-01619415610.5824/1309-1581.2015.2.003.x2039The Failure of Turkish Mainstream Media: A Framing Comparison of The Web Versions of Turkish NewspapersHüseyin Özarslan0Mehmet Salih Güran1Gümüşhane University Faculty of Communications, Department of Public Relations, TurkeyGümüşhane University Faculty of Communications, Department of Radio-Television and Film, TurkeyThe objective of this study is to define the notion of mainstream/professional journalism by comparatively exploring the historical conditions of media systems development to contrast it with the infrastructure of political culture and professional culture of the past century in Turkey. After this theoretical background, we implemented a comparative framing analysis of an actual policy debate in the Turkish press to conclude on the changing and not changing conditions that prevail in the politics/media system and culture. In the light of the framing analysis, we found that the current state of the Turkish media system constitutes still a mostly dysfunctional social interaction platform that is caught between media parallelism and tabloidization and represents a largely underdeveloped professionalism that is still insufficient for the development of a civil society. Nonetheless, we found on the other hand that the fundamental values and notion of mainstream media is still represented to make hope for a future development towards a functioning media system.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ajit-e/issue/54435/740918mainstream journalismturkish mediajournalism ethicspolitical cultureframing analysis.ana akım gazeteciliktürk medyasıhabercilik etiğisiyasi kültürçerçeveleme analizi.
spellingShingle Hüseyin Özarslan
Mehmet Salih Güran
The Failure of Turkish Mainstream Media: A Framing Comparison of The Web Versions of Turkish Newspapers
Online Academic Journal of Information Technology
mainstream journalism
turkish media
journalism ethics
political culture
framing analysis.
ana akım gazetecilik
türk medyası
habercilik etiği
siyasi kültür
çerçeveleme analizi.
title The Failure of Turkish Mainstream Media: A Framing Comparison of The Web Versions of Turkish Newspapers
title_full The Failure of Turkish Mainstream Media: A Framing Comparison of The Web Versions of Turkish Newspapers
title_fullStr The Failure of Turkish Mainstream Media: A Framing Comparison of The Web Versions of Turkish Newspapers
title_full_unstemmed The Failure of Turkish Mainstream Media: A Framing Comparison of The Web Versions of Turkish Newspapers
title_short The Failure of Turkish Mainstream Media: A Framing Comparison of The Web Versions of Turkish Newspapers
title_sort failure of turkish mainstream media a framing comparison of the web versions of turkish newspapers
topic mainstream journalism
turkish media
journalism ethics
political culture
framing analysis.
ana akım gazetecilik
türk medyası
habercilik etiği
siyasi kültür
çerçeveleme analizi.
url https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ajit-e/issue/54435/740918
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