Medya, Siyaset ve Demokrasi: Eleştirel Bir Perspektif

Year 2018, Volume: 5 Issue: 4, 479 - 492, 30.07.2018

Ekmel Geçer

https://doi.org/10.17680/erciyesiletisim.421475

Abstract

Bu makale, genelde teorik bağlamda olmak üzere, demokrasi, medya ve siyaset ile
ilgili tartışmalara yoğunlaşmaktadır. Demokrasi, medya ve siyaset ve medyanın
demokrasi ile ilişkisine dair yaklaşımlara ait genel bir değerlendirme sunduktan
sonra, çalışma, bu ilişkinin genel görünümünü ve demokratik gelişimde medyanın
nasıl işlemesi gerektiğini göstermeye çalışmaktadır. Makalenin sonunda, yine daha
net bir bakış açısına sahip olmak için, haber hikayelerinin üretilmesi süreci; gündem
oluşturma, kamuoyu yaratma ve siyasal yaklaşım inşa etme unsur olması açısından
ele alınmaktadır.
Burada, özellikle medya ve demokrasi arasındaki ilişki, medya kanallarının
demokrasinin daha iyi bir biçimde işlemesi için sahip oldukları öneme vurgu yapmak
için irdelenmiştir. Sosyal konsensüs ve gündem oluşturmanın temel aktörleri olması
açısından basın ve politika arasındaki bağ incelenirken, medyanın, kurumsal ve dış
faktörlerin de etkisiyle kamuoyu ve ideoloji oluşturmadaki rolü tartışılmış, böylece
Türkiye’deki medya ve demokrasi tartışmaları daha detaylı bir şekilde incelenmiş ve
siyaset ile ilişkisi değerlendirilmiştir.

Keywords

Medya, Türkiye, Demokrasi, Siyaset, Gündem Oluşturma

Media, Politics and Democracy: A Critical Perspective

Abstract

This article, mostly through a theoretical background, focuses on general debates
of democracy, media and politics. Giving insights regarding overall perspectives
of democracy, media-democracy and politics relationship, the study tries to
demonstrate the view of this interaction and how media should function in a
democratic development. At the end, again to have a clearer point of view, this article
tackles construction of the news stories as being matter of structuring agendabuilding,
public opinion and political perspectives through the news media.
Here particularly media and democracy relationship will be tried to be examined
giving the importance of the media courses for democracy to function in a proper
way. While examining the press and politics linkage as being the main actors to set
up the daily agenda and a social consensus; the role of the media in shaping the
public opinion and the ideology both through external or/and internal (institutional)
motives have been tried to be discussed to better debate the media problems and
examine their relationship with the politics especially in Turkey.

Keywords

Media, Turkey, Democracy, Politics, Agenda Setting

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