CUMHURİYETİN İLK YILLARINDAN GÜNÜMÜZE KADIN TEMSİLİ: BASILI VE DİJİTAL MEDYADA GÖRSELLİK, İDEOLOJİ VE DÖNÜŞÜM
FROM THE EARLY REPUBLIC TO THE DIGITAL AGE: GENDERED VISIBILITY, IDEOLOGY, AND TRANSFORMATION IN TURKISH MEDIA

Summary/Abstract: This study examines how female visibility is constructed across different media environments through a comparative perspective. It focuses on the representations of women in early Republican newspapers and the images of femininity circulating on Instagram today, aiming to explore both the continuities and transformations between these two contexts. The main objective of the research is to understand how femininity becomes visible through particular discursive frameworks in distinct historical and technological settings. The analysis draws on newspaper materials from the early Republican period and a selected sample of highly visible Instagram accounts. Using qualitative discourse analysis, the study investigates how femininity is represented, framed, and normalized within these media environments. The findings suggest that while both contexts produce recognizable models of femininity, the mechanisms that organize female visibility differ significantly. In early Republican print media, female visibility was closely tied to modernization and nation-building narratives. On Instagram, however, visibility emerges within a digital platform environment shaped by engagement metrics, algorithmic circulation, and practices of self-presentation. The study argues that female visibility should not be understood merely as presence within media spaces but as a socially structured process shaped by representational norms and cultural expectations. By bringing together historical media analysis and contemporary digital culture, the research highlights how gendered visibility continues to be negotiated across changing media regimes.

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