EĞLENCE ENDÜSTRİSİNDE KADINA ŞİDDET VE MEDYA: MÜZİK SANATÇISI BERGEN ÖRNEĞİ
VIOLENCE TO WOMEN IN ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY AND MEDIA: MUSIC PERFORMER BERGEN EXAMPLE

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to make emphasize how the traditional printed media use violence to woman on the example of music performer Bergen. Women are mostly regarded with their sexuality more than their artistic performance in entertainment industry. In music industry which is a part of entertainment industry women face violence, discrimination and abuse in their carrier, These things sometimes can cost to the life of a woman. In this search the music performer Bergen and the violence that she faced from her husband has been examined. In the first part of the study there has been a conceptual search on the concept of entertainment, and the subject of violence to women in Turkey. In the second part of the study there has been a research for Bergen and the violence which has caused her to die and how this used as news in traditional press. In this stage there has been done a content analysis for the newspaper printed between 15th and 22nd of August 1989 which is the first week of Bergen’s death. In the research it has been examined how the printed media use the case of Bergen as an example of “violence to woman” and there has been done a critical determination for discussing the role of media and violence to woman.

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