Media portrayal of labor movements : a case study on the press coverage of Seydişehir eti aluminum privatization

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This thesis analyzes media coverage of the labor movements by taking main underlying dynamics into the attention, in which the neo-liberal policy implementations ideologically contradict with the will of the workers. The media representation of working class will be evaluated on the base of the most striking contradictory area, privatization. The study will generally discuss the main dynamics before going through the news analyses of four national and nine local newspapers. This news of national and local media will be evaluated by the methods of content and discourse analyses. The study will finally try to find out the attitude of the workers towards their media representation and their trust in the media through the method of interviewing. The national and local media will be compared during the evaluations presented within this thesis.

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Media and cultural studies.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18108

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B. Ertürk, “Media portrayal of labor movements : a case study on the press coverage of Seydişehir eti aluminum privatization,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.