Haber söyleminin internet içeriklerine etkisi

Abstract

SUMMARY The aim of this thessis is to explored how the dominant discourse has been represented in Internet by different social identities. The theoretical framework of this study is constructed on the basis of subject and identity theories, tracing their changing nature from the classical Enlightenment to the Critical Theory. The concepts consciousness, ideology and social subject tackled by Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Marx and Althusser have been critically evaluated in this study, without ruling out the structuralist theory of Saussure and Levi-Strauss and the subject theory of Lacan. Additionally, this framework attempts the crystalise the argument with particularly paying attention to the very conceptualisation of subject and ideology in mass comunication theory. Following the theoritical framework, this thesis then takes an account of the news coverage at Hürriyet, a Turkish newspaper which, to a large extent, represents the dominant ideology in the country. In doing so, this account takes two dimensions: concentration and dispersion one the one hand, continuty in time on the other. After elaborating the news coverage at Hürriyet in circa 1999, this study turns its face to two mailing lists in Internet, comparing the contents of the discussions in those mailing lists with the coverage at Hürriyet. This comparison goes on to find, at macro level, parallel points between the coverage at Hürriyet and the contents of the discussions in the mailing lists and then to spot, at micro level, the emergence of "the other" category, a category which represents a negative identity formation mismatching with the mainstream one. Finally, this thesis is an exercise to sensitise our understanding about the representation of mainstream and the other identities, positing a bold argument that 277Internet is a medium in which the other identities may not fully represent themselves, hardly escaping to reproduce themselves in the mainstream ideology. In other words, Internet is not a public sphere in which different identities truly exist, instead a sphere in which these identities reproduced themselves in the mainstream ideology. 278