ANALYSIS OF PRINT MEDIA COVERAGE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: A CASE OF THE NEWSPAPERS OF HURRIYET, SABAH, AND POSTA (2005-2008)
BASINDA KADINA YÖNELİK ŞİDDET HABERLERİNİN ANALİZİ: HÜRRİYET, SABAH VE POSTA GAZETELERİ ÖRNEĞİ (2005-2008)

Author : Gökhan GÖKULU -- Nilay HOSTA
Number of pages : 1829-1850

Abstract

This study examines the effects of the media’s especially printed media’s representation of violence against women. The study aims to examine the effects of the language used in the newspapers about violance towards women news. The degree of responsibility, that press shows about publishing the news about violence, which is a very sensitive matter, is a highly important issue. Besides, choosing the words used in these news, apart from sensation and as objective as possible is very valuable for our subject also. Considering these, our study aims to examine the effects and possible results of the language the press uses in this kind of news. Violence against women is an widespread social problem in Turkey and in the world. The study deals with how the press presents the news about violence towards women via qualitative and quantitative analysis methods. Besides, it also tries to show how sensational expressions and violence content takes place in press. The study will analyse the genre, the way of presentation and the place of the news in various newspapers in a quantitative analysis manner. Whereas in the qualitative data analysis, it is touched upon the news of violence towards women and how the press uses the language while presenting these news in detail. The study will manage to examine the news about violence towards women in various newspapers such as Sabah, Hürriyet and Posta in between 2005 & 2008 according to our topic. These newspapers are chosen due to their press run, widespread availability and easy accessibility. In this respect, the study shows that examined newspapers report the incidents regarding the violence against women in a slipshod, sensational and violent manner.

Keywords

Violence, Violence Against Women, Mass Media, Printed Press

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