DRAMATIZATION OF MORALITY AND LEGALITY IN TURKISH MEDIA: THE WORLD OF TV SERIES AND CRIME REALITY SHOWS

Year 2024, Issue: 48, 140 - 155, 30.11.2024

Nuran Erol Işık , Burcu Yaman Akyar

https://doi.org/10.59572/sosder.1558129

Abstract

Understanding the representations of justice and law in different media texts requires evaluating a web of multidimensional themes and issues, and their intersections, in a relational manner. Media portrayal of the world of law-making, as well as forms of ‘doing the right thing’, vary across media genres. The representations of law are revelatory products of political and popular cultural practices which intersect in unexpected ways. Codes of morality and legality in media are two ‘worlds of evaluation’ (Dromi and Illouz, 2010) where such a complicated intersection can be observed. Due to the ways in which narratives on formal legal criteria of judgements and moral argumentation styles are intertwined, one can clearly derive a series of validity claims (Habermas) in different genres in popular culture. This paper tackles the question of moral reasoning embedded in two genres in an evaluation of the representations of legality as part of moral universe.

Keywords

sociology of television, TV series, crime reality shows

TÜRK MEDYASINDA AHLAK VE YASALLIĞIN DRAMATİZE EDİLMESİ: TV DİZİLERİ VE SUÇ REALİTE ŞOVLARI DÜNYASI

Abstract

Farklı medya metinlerindeki adalet ve hukuk temsillerini anlamak, çok boyutlu olan tema ve konular ağını ve bunların kesişim noktalarını ilişkisel bir şekilde değerlendirmeyi gerektirir. Kanun yapma dünyasının medya tasvirleri ve 'doğru olanı yapma' biçimleri medya türleri arasında farklılık gösterir. Hukukun temsilleri, beklenmedik şekillerde birbiriyle kesişen siyasi ve popüler kültür pratiklerinin ifşa edici ürünleridir. Medyadaki ahlak ve yasallık kodları, böylesine karmaşık bir kesişmenin gözlemlenebileceği iki 'değerlendirme dünyasıdır' (Dromi ve Illouz, 2010). Hukuki yargıların resmi kriterlerine ilişkin anlatıların ve ahlaki argümantasyon tarzlarının iç içe geçmesi nedeniyle, popüler kültürdeki farklı türlerde bir dizi geçerlilik iddiası (Habermas) açıkça türetilebilir. Bu makale, ahlaki evrenin bir parçası olarak yasallığın temsillerinin değerlendirilmesinde iki türdeki ahlaki akıl yürütme meselesini ele almaktadır.

Keywords

televizyon sosyolojisi, TV dizileri, suç reality şovları

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