THE SUFFERER AS THE SPECTATOR OF HER OWN SUFFERING: BARTIN MINE DISASTER AS A CASE STUDY

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2023-7-3

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Ertepinar, Oyku

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The aim of this study is to analyze how the disasters and the suffering of the victims are represented in the mainstream media in Turkey. This thesis covers both social suffering and direct material suffering caused by long-term inequalities and how they are represented in the mainstream media. The basis of this study is the analysis of the news of the print media and mainstream news channels, which are examined within the framework of a critical perspective. Multimodal discourse analysis is chosen as the research method for the study. After the blatant shift in the power balance of the ownership of print media and mainstream news channels, the importance of analyzing the media representations of major disasters and suffering itself as a concept, the sufferers and those who have to witness their own suffering became more important. Representation of pain is a heavily studied area in media and communication studies. Focusing on the literature on media representations of pain, it can be said that the literature is influenced by a Western gaze. As a result, it is supported by our analysis that the existing literature may need corrections and expansions to examine the media representations of remote victims and the pain of the distant other in countries such as the Bartın Mining Disaster, Turkey, where social and economic injustices are recreating their own injustices.

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Social suffering, mediated distant suffering, social actors, media, Bartın Mine Disaster

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/104437

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis