Shifting Currents
As a Truth Narrator - President of the Workers Party of Turkey Mehmet Ali Aybar’s (1962-1969) Political Communication Approach
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Canver Celik
The Workers Party of Turkey, which emerged as a result of the working class movement which developed after the 1960 military coup, became an ideological and class identity with the general presidency of Mehmet Ali Aybar. İn addition, until the 1960s the working class and the Turkish clerisy who had been away from social and political issues. With the establishment of the party, the Workers Party of Turkey had become the only political party that allowed the Turkish working class and the Turkish clerisy to unite on the same political platform. With this feature, the party has brought a new breath to Turkish political life with its ideology, program, strategy, propaganda and all other components. One of these innovations is the political communication approach of the Turkish Workers Party. Considering that the political line of the party and its chairman Mehmet Ali Aybar bear a parallel like the two sides of a medallion, Aybar’s political communication approach is important to examine to understand the dynamics of the party’s propaganda strategy and its implementation. In this study, the characteristics of the Aybar’s political communication approach are examined and interpreted in the relevant literature. In this context, the political communication approach of Aybar and the Turkish Workers Party is important to examine. In particular, the dynamics of steps taken by a socialist political party on the basis of constitutional legitimacy for the first time in Turkey lead to understanding the place of communication in the change of the social structure of Turkey.
Framing International Incidents in Video News Reports: A Comparative Study between CNN and Aljazeera
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Alaa M Nawar
This paper compares the CNN and Al Jazeera English news coverage of one crisis that happened in New Zealand on the 15th of March 2019. As described by Jacinda Ardern the prime minister of New Zealand that it was a terrorist attack. Fifty-one people were killed and others were injured. Both news channels have covered the incident in their own way. The methodology used in this study was a combination of the qualitative and the quantitative method. Eighty-two social video news reports of both news channels were content analyzed and In-depth interviews were conducted with two media professionals from local news agencies in Egypt. The theoretical framework of the study is the framing theory. This paper hypothesized that there is a difference between the social video news reports of both news channels in the angle of the news story, the terms used to describe the attacker, and the event. A chi-square test was applied to all the variables of each hypothesis and the results concluded that there is a significant difference between all variables hypothesized.
Media Literacy Education in Bangladesh: A Public University Study
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Amena Khatun, Dil Afroza Khatun
In Bangladesh there is a great prospect of media market and the media consumers are comparatively higher than that of other developing countries. Internet users have reached 94.445 million at the end of May 2019 (BTRC, 30 May 2019). Due to easy access of information and mass media, people can instantly share any information without considering any consequences. But unfortunately there are no institutions or proper guidelines to promote media literacy education in the country. Hence, in recent years many kinds of violence erupted due to sharing and spreading of fake news and rumors through social media. So how can we tackle this situation and create awareness among media users is the question now. Considering these circumstances, the researchers conducted a study on media literacy education in a public university in Bangladesh. In this study a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and semi structured interview have been applied to collect data from the university students as well as the concerned authorities of media education of government and non-government bodies. The study reveals that a serious lack of media literacy among the said group. And there is no noticeable initiatives by the government on media literacy education process in the national education curriculum. The status of media participation of the respondents are very low. In that case, the researchers strongly recommended that the government of Bangladesh should take immediate steps to include media literacy education in the national education curriculum from primary to higher education.
