Mine Gencel Bek

Communicating Capitalism: a Study of the Contemporary Turkish Press Mine Gencel Bek

The main concerns of this book are examining communicating capitalism;exploring the ways capitalism is being prioritised by privileging some meanings over others, and by which mechanisms; analysing the representation and the construction of the discourses on the state, market and democracy in the Turkish newspapers. The book traces the political and economic roots of these discourses on a national and global scale and news production process before analysing the operation of the ideology in the news, editorials and columns of the Turkish press. By investigating how capitalism as an ideology is communicated and by showing how the media limits the availability of information by privileging some choices in the public debate about political economy, this book attempts to make a contribution to the ideas which aim to develop democracy and citizenship. The target readers of this book can be varied since it has an interdisciplinary perspective: Media and journalism studies scholars and postgraduate students; researchers interested in Turkish politics and media.