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THE DISTANCE CREATED IN USERS BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Year 2026, Volume: 16 Issue: 2 , 1098 - 1105 , 01.04.2026
https://doi.org/10.7456/tojdac.1857608
https://izlik.org/JA52DM47UZ

Abstract

Digital platforms have revolutionized the creation, dissemination, and delivery of international content, serving not only as a tool of dissemination but also as a tool of shaping the visibility of news narratives. This study examines the effect of algorithmic ranking, personalization, content recommendation, and moderation of news content on the perception of international news. It examines the role of digital media not only in the dissemination of news but also in the shaping of the visibility of news, the marginalization of news, and the emotional responses of the audience towards the news. Based on the platform studies literature and case study analysis, this study reveals that the technical infrastructures of digital platforms simultaneously influence journalistic and user practices and produce a new media regime. This study argues that the visibility of news is not arbitrary but rather follows the logics of the attention economy, aestheticization, and repetition. This process can lead to the normalization of international news in the daily digital stream, overexposure and emotional fatigue of the audience, and cognitive distance between the audience and international events.

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DİJİTAL ÇAĞDA ULUSLARARASI HABERLERİN KULLANICIDA YARATTIĞI MESAFE

Year 2026, Volume: 16 Issue: 2 , 1098 - 1105 , 01.04.2026
https://doi.org/10.7456/tojdac.1857608
https://izlik.org/JA52DM47UZ

Abstract

Dijital platformlar, uluslararası içeriklerin üretimi, dolaşımı ve kullanıcıya ulaşma biçimlerini dönüştürerek yalnızca dağıtım kanalları olarak kalmayıp, haber anlatılarının görünürlüğünü aktif şekilde yapılandıran bilgi aracıları hâline gelmiştir. Bu çalışma, platformların algoritmik sıralama, kişiselleştirme, içerik öneri sistemleri ve moderasyon politikalarının uluslararası haberlerin algılanma biçimleri üzerindeki etkilerini incelemektedir. Çalışmada, dijital medyanın yalnızca haberin iletiminde değil; hangi anlatıların görünür kılındığı, hangilerinin arka plana itildiği ve bu süreçlerin kullanıcıda duygusal tepkiler ve algısal mesafe oluşturduğu analiz edilmektedir. Platform araştırmaları literatürü ile örnek vaka incelemesi temelinde yürütülen çalışma, dijital platformların teknik altyapılarının gazetecilik pratikleri ve kullanıcı davranışlarını eş zamanlı olarak şekillendirdiğini ve bu etkileşim sonucunda yeni bir medya rejiminin ortaya çıktığını ortaya koymaktadır. Analiz, haber görünürlüğünün rastlantısal olmadığını; etkileşim ekonomisi, estetikleştirme pratikleri ve tekrar mekanizmaları doğrultusunda yapılandırıldığını göstermektedir. Bu süreç, uluslararası haberlerin gündelik dijital akış içinde sıradanlaşmasına, aşırı maruziyet yoluyla duygusal yorgunluk üretmesine ve kullanıcı ile uluslararası olaylar arasında bilişsel bir mesafenin oluşmasına zemin hazırlamaktadır.

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  • Albarran, A. B. (2010). The media economy. Routledge. Barthes, R. (1981). Camera lucida: Reflections on photography. Hill and Wang. (Original work published 1980)
  • Cadwalladr, C., & Graham-Harrison, E. (2018, March 17). Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election
  • Chadwick, A. (2013). The hybrid media system: Politics and power. Oxford University Press.
  • Eslami, M., Rickman, A., Vaccaro, K., Aleyasen, A., Vuong, A., Karahalios, K., Hamilton, K., & Sandvig, C. (2015). "I always assumed that I wasn't really that close to [her]": Reasoning about invisible algorithms in news feeds. In CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings (pp. 153-162). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-April). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702556
  • Giddens, A. (1991). Modernity and self-identity: Self and society in the late modern age. Stanford University Press.
  • Gillespie, T. (2014). The relevance of algorithms. In T. Gillespie, P. Boczkowski, & K. Foot (Eds.), Media technologies: Essays on communication, materiality, and society (pp. 167–194). MIT Press.
  • Gillespie, T. (2018). Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, content moderation, and the hidden decisions that shape social media. Yale University Press.
  • Habermas, J. (1989). The structural transformation of the public sphere. MIT Press. (Original work published 1962)
  • Highfield, T., & Leaver, T. (2016). Instagrammatics and digital methods: Studying visual social media. Communication Research and Practice, 2(1), 47–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2016.1155332
  • Manovich, L. (2020). Cultural analytics. MIT Press.
  • McNair, B. (2017). Fake news: Falsehood, fabrication and fantasy in journalism. Routledge.
  • Napoli, P. M. (2014). Automated media: An institutional theory perspective. Communication Theory, 24(3), 340–360. https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12039
  • Napoli, P. M. (2019). Social media and the public interest: Media regulation in the disinformation age. Columbia University Press.
  • Oliver, M. B., Hartmann, T., & Woolley, J. K. (2010). Appreciation as Audience Response: Exploring Entertainment Gratifications Beyond Hedonism Human Communication Research, 36(1), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2009.01368.x
  • Scolari, C. A. (2018). La guerra de las plataformas: De Facebook a TikTok. Paidós.
  • Sontag, S. (2003). Regarding the pain of others. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Sunstein, C. R. (2017). #Republic: Divided democracy in the age of social media. Princeton University Press.
  • Tufekci, Z. (2015). Algorithmic harms beyond Facebook and Google. Colorado Technology Law Journal, 13(1), 203–218.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Journalism
Journal Section Research Article
Authors

Ecemnur Delibalta 0009-0002-7506-0422

Suat Gezgin 0000-0002-6459-6064

Submission Date January 6, 2026
Acceptance Date March 28, 2026
Publication Date April 1, 2026
DOI https://doi.org/10.7456/tojdac.1857608
IZ https://izlik.org/JA52DM47UZ
Published in Issue Year 2026 Volume: 16 Issue: 2

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APA Delibalta, E., & Gezgin, S. (2026). THE DISTANCE CREATED IN USERS BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS IN THE DIGITAL AGE. The Turkish Online Journal of Design Art and Communication, 16(2), 1098-1105. https://doi.org/10.7456/tojdac.1857608


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