MANIPULATIVE SOCIETY AND PERCEPTION ANALYSIS IN THE TURKISH PRESS AND THE FOREIGN PRESS AFTER TERRORIST ACTIONS Cover Image

TERÖR EYLEMLERİ SONRASINDA TÜRK BASINI VE YABANCI BASINDA YER ALAN MANİPÜLATİF SÖYLEM VE ALGI YANILSAMASI
MANIPULATIVE SOCIETY AND PERCEPTION ANALYSIS IN THE TURKISH PRESS AND THE FOREIGN PRESS AFTER TERRORIST ACTIONS

Author(s): Emrullah Şeker
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Criminology, Studies in violence and power, Social Informatics, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: discourse analysis; perception; illusion; media; terror;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to introduce the manipulative discourse which has been a type of ideological struggle, most of the time more effective than even a war, since early ages and research the illusion in the perception of the addressee resulting from this type of discourse by providing samples from national and international press. Considering the conditions and the context where this type of discourse is generated, the expected illusion in the perception of the addressee is explained through the differences occurring between the phenomena in the real world and the impressions and the prejudices appeared in the perception resulted from the manipulative discourse. In this study, the manipulative discourse samples collected from reports and comments on four sensational terror attacks and published in national and international press have been researched through content analysis and certain lexical sequences have been established. Finally, based on the data obtained here, the intensity of the manipulative discourse is figured out and the differences between the phenomena in the real world and the illusion occurred in the perception of the addressee are put forth.

  • Issue Year: 8/2016
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 507-513
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Turkish