Oguzhan Tas

There has been a revival in street art in Ankara throughout the 2000s where we can witness a group of art collectives/activists turning the city into a privileged site of protest and resistance with their works ranging from stencils, cut-outs and graffititoinstallations and ready-mades. We suggest to conceive of this revival in terms of (1) protesting the use of urban publics pace as an instrument in pursuing a politics of revenge, (2) contesting the commodification of the city for the benefits of construction or advertising industries, (3) seeking for the alternative media of expression in a political milieu in which the channels of discourse are gradually being obstructed.Gezi protests in 2013 were a landmark in terms of public visibility of street art. However, the art collectives such as Kabahatler Atolyesi, Avareler and KUF Project had substantially be enactive in making the city as a conceived space of struggle and social communication by their influential works since 2000s. I...

The prevalence of “sexual-political scandals” in Turkish political life have increasingly become widespread in recent years. In this research, I specifically focus on the media coverage of two distinct examples of this phenomenon which had dramatic effect on the general election in 2011. The study aims at questioning the role of both traditional and new media outlets in making of scandals and also attempts to understand how media professionals justify their concern on politicians’ intimate relations in terms of journalistic responsibility and practical norms. Although the content of all news stories, editorials and commentaries selected from nine leading national newspapers as well as news sites and blogs involved in the making of scandals examined in the research, I portray here only some main findings and remarks. The paper concludes by underlying the argument that journalism ethics should no longer be considered in Turkey as an isolated, intrinsic phenomenon solely concerned with...

Bu calismada, Turkiye’deki iletisim egitimi veren fakulte ya da bolumlerde nasil bir medya etigi egitimi verildigi ilgili derslerin izlenceleri uzerinden incelenmistir. Turkiye’de 1990’lardan bugune medya endustrisinde buyuk bir yapisal donusum gerceklesmis, eszamanli olarak iletisim fakultelerinin sayisinda dramatik bir artis gorulmustur. Tum bu degisimlere karsilik, etik egitimine yonelik mufredatin yeniden dusunulup planlanmasinda dikkat cekici bir caba gorulmemistir. Fakultelerin meslek egitimini oncelemesi ve mufredatlarini bu cercevede gelistirmesi karsisinda, medyanin demokratik bir siyasal sistemde ustlenmesi gereken role dair bakis acilari geri planda kalmis, piyasanin zorlayici gercekligi daha cok vurgulanir olmustur. Bugun Turkiye medyasi mulkiyet yogunlasmasi ve asiri politizasyonun ikiz baskisi altindadir. Medya kuruluslarini ve habercileri baski altinda tutmak ve denetlemek icin kullanilan yontemler nedeniyle Turkiye’nin basin ozgurlugu karnesi giderek kotulesmektedir....

Ozet Bu yazi, gazeteciligin profesyonel ve modern bir alan olarak ortaya cikisini incelemektedir. Calismanin amaci, Ingiliz ve Amerikan gazetecilik geleneklerinin toplumsal, ekonomik ve soylemsel olarak sekillendigi surecin izini surerek, basin tarihine yonelik liberal anlatida goz ardi edilen sinif savasimi, toplumsal denetim ve depolitizasyon gibi unsurlarin gazetecilik alaninin olusumundaki rolunu ortaya koymaktir. Profesyonel gazetecilik modelini, devrimci ve partizan basinin yerinden edilmesiyle isaretlenen demokratik bir zafer olarak goren yaklasimlara karsi cikan bu yazi, liberal gazetecilik tarihi anlatisinin ideolojik icerimlerine ve tuzaklarina dikkat cekmektedir. Anahtar Sozcukler: gazetecilik, elestirel tarihyazimi, profesyonellesme, objektiflik, depolitizasyon Abstract This paper delves into the historical conditions behind the emergence of journalism as a professional and modern practice. It offers a theoretical debate on the conditions of journalism by tracing back various social, economic and discursive formations of British and American journalistic traditions from 16th to the mid-20th centuries. In doing so, it aims at developing a critical historiography for journalism by particularly focusing on issues of class struggle, social control and de-politicisation which are deliberately abandoned in the liberal accounts. By challenging approaches celebrating “professional journalism” as a democratic triumph over the displacement of earlier forms of revolutionary and partisan press, this paper discloses the ideological implications and caveats of the liberal narrative of the history of journalism. Keywords: journalism, critical historiography, professionalism, objectivity, depoliticisation

There has been a revival in street art in Ankara throughout the 2000s where we can witness a group of art collectives/activists turning the city into a privileged site of protest and resistance with their works ranging from stencils, cut-outs and graffititoinstallations and ready-mades. We suggest to conceive of this revival in terms of (1) protesting the use of urban publics pace as an instrument in pursuing a politics of revenge, (2) contesting the commodification of the city for the benefits of construction or advertising industries, (3) seeking for the alternative media of expression in a political milieu in which the channels of discourse are gradually being obstructed.Gezi protests in 2013 were a landmark in terms of public visibility of street art. However, the art collectives such as Kabahatler Atolyesi, Avareler and KUF Project had substantially be enactive in making the city as a conceived space of struggle and social communication by their influential works since 2000s. In this article, we focus on the art practices of these groups by considering street art such a political practice standing for the right to the city and communicative aspects of urban spaces

Paddy Scannell (2007: 262) Media and Communication [Medya ve İletişim ] kitabında, iletişim ve medya çalışmalarındaki farklı disipliner yönelimlerin ortaya çıkışına dair, bunların modernitenin yarattığı patolojilere birer yanıt oiuşturduklannı, ancak bu entelektüel yanıtların, içinde geliştikleri tarihsel koşulların izlerini de yoğun şekilde banndıklarını iddia eder. Bir başka deyişle, bu disipliner yönelimler modernite deneyiminin yarattığı çelişkileri anlama çabasının birer ürünü oldukları kadar belli bakımlardan bu çelişkileri kendi bünyelerinde içermişler, toplumsal değişimin yönüne ilişkin kaygılarını iletişim ve medya sorunlannı ele alış biçimlerine de yansıtmışlardır.

Öz  Bu çalışmanın amacı, medya, etik ve ahlak arasındaki ilişkiyi, ahlaki uslamlama sorunundan hareketle incelemek. Medya pratiğine içkin bir ahlaki boyutun varlığını gösterebilmek ve kimi pratik zorluklar karşısında ahlaki olarak nasıl akıl yürütebileceğimizi ortaya koymak için, medyanın kendine özgü ekolojisinden bir adım geriye çekilerek ona ahlakın alanından bakmaya çalışıyoruz. Amacımız, önceliği normatif yaklaşıma vererek, bir doğrulama kılavuzu, kurallar listesi ya da davranış rehberine ulaşmak değil. Asıl olarak, ahlaki bir çıkmazla karşı karşıya kalındığında öznel eyleme nasıl yön verileceği sorununu odağa alan bazı kuramları medya pratiğiyle ilişkilendirerek ele alıyoruz. İlkin, medya ahlakına ışık tutan iki ana etik yönelimi, faydacılık ve ödev etiğini karşılaştırmalı olarak incelendikten sonra, "fayda" ve "ödev" nosyonlarını bu iki yönelimdeki gibi karşıt uçlar olmaktan çıkarmaya çalışan yaklaşımların sunduğu imkanları araştırıyoruz.

This study explores the syllabi used at communication faculties/departments in
Turkey with the goal of examining how media ethics is taught at the undergraduate
level. Since 1990s, we have witnessed fundamental changes in the media
landscape and the proliferation of communication faculties in Turkey. Despite
these changes, curriculum planning involving ethics has received little attention
within communication studies. Faculties have tended to orient themselves too
much toward the profession and too little toward the academy. We assume that this trend overemphasizes the realities of the market while ignoring moral reasoning through the role of profession in a democratic political system. Today, the media profession suffers from ownership concentration and politicization. Turkey has a poor record on press freedom mainly because of the methods used by the government to pressure and control media outlets and journalists. Under these circumstances, exploring the ways of seeing ethics in media education seems more crucial to us. To assess the current scenery of media ethics education in Turkey, syllabi of ethics courses from various faculties were collected to be analysed primarily for their subject content, but some other issues were considered as well, such as course descriptions,
objectives, assessment techniques, and teaching methods.
Keywords: Media ethics, communication education, moral reasoning, syllabi, ethical principles

Fake News in Social Media and Syrian Refugee Crisis in the Post-truth Era
In this paper, we explore recent controversies on fake news and identify the circumstances by which the problem of fake news becomes current again. The status of truth in the ecology of news today is at the center of the discussion of fake news. Therefore, we decided to approach the problem in terms of social media reporting, user-generated contents, and post-truth politics. It is quite critical for us that the right populist movements turn false news into a political tactic to address the feelings and beliefs of citizens. In addition, we are trying to revise following questions: Which type of news would be rather considered as fake, how it is possible for fake news to spread so fast on social media and what types of fake news are more common. The last section of the article will be used to approach fake news about Syrian refugees in Turkey from a methodological perspective of multimodal textual analysis, in order to respond the ways in which discriminatory and hateful speeches propagate and legitimize so easily. As a conclusion , we suggest dealing with the fake news as a crucial component of political struggle over social reality instead of seeing the issue only regarding the media users' critical awareness.