ANALYZES ON TURKISH MEDIA'S CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH POLITICAL POWER Cover Image

TÜRK MEDYASININ SERMAYE YAPISI VE SİYASAL İKTİDARLA İLİŞKİSİ ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME
ANALYZES ON TURKISH MEDIA'S CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH POLITICAL POWER

Author(s): Onur DURSUN
Subject(s): Cultural history, Media studies, Political history, Evaluation research, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Hitit Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Keywords: Capital Structure of Media; Limitation of Discourse; Monopoly in Media; Message Selection; News Filters;

Summary/Abstract: The multidimensional relationship between economic and political powers, mass media have been inadequate to express the realities. The idea of writing news through readers' interpretation has been admitted as a method since World War I. This is the underlying rationale behind the development of column writing. If the readers are given accurate information, the journalist who designs or interprets the news, has the right to modify the news. However realities in most texts built by the expectation of dominant power has not been directly expressed. Therefore these texts do not convey the critiques of the hegemonic powers. If they exist, it is either partially or not. Same approach has been adopted for other kinds of news text. In other words, most texts confront limitation of discourse or self-censor. This attitude has particularly made itself felt in liberal media. In this study, in the direction of current information, capital structures of media organizations and its relationships with political centers are examined with the thought that capital structures and political centers affect contents of media.

  • Issue Year: 5/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-21
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Turkish