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Selective exposure to online news :|a qualitative study of young internet users in Istanbul

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.
dc.contributor.advisor Yazıcı, Berna.
dc.contributor.author Ak, Burak.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-10-22T04:20:31Z
dc.date.available 2023-10-22T04:20:31Z
dc.date.issued 2019.
dc.identifier.other HTR 2019 A51
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/20184
dc.description.abstract Increased autonomy of individuals to select content in online media has raised serious scholar concerns. It is argued that individuals now could abandon po-litical news for more entertainment exposure; or they could avoid content countering their ideas, and tend to view more of like-minded messages. While a majority of studies testing such hypothesis have been conducted on Ameri-can society, the literature on Turkey lacks studies that reveal audiences’ moti-vations in media use, particularly their responses to high polarization. This study focuses on urban and young (18-30 aged Internet users’ per-ception of media and news and their media use habits. The research is based on sixteen semi-structured interviews conducted with young Internet users in Istanbul. The sample included both pro-governmental (Justice and Develop-ment Party or Nationalist Movement Party voters and oppositional partici-pants (Republican People’s Party, Good Party or Peoples’ Democratic Party supporters as well as a generational stratification along Z Generation (18-24 aged and Y Generation members (25-30 aged. The findings are analyzed in the light of both socio-psychological theories on information exposure and more contemporary debates on polarization, post-truth and generational trends in media use. This research demonstrates that instead of living in echo chambers where they increasingly interact with only like-minded messages, individuals can also grow an awareness towards polarization and partisanship in media, and mechanisms to cope with disinformation.
dc.format.extent 30 cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019.
dc.subject.lcsh News Web sites.
dc.subject.lcsh Elections -- Turkey -- İstanbul.
dc.title Selective exposure to online news :|a qualitative study of young internet users in Istanbul
dc.format.pages xiii, 140 pages ;


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