Research Article

A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication

Number: 36 December 31, 2020
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A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication

Abstract

This article proposes a dialectical theoretical framework for the analysis of media and media communication. The study begins with the determination that a genuine theoretical analysis of media and communication must take into account certain constitutive relations and processes within the social whole, since communication is not part of a single social structure or a distinctive structure within a social system. The article tries to formulate and analyze these relationships and processes in the form of dialectical tensions and patterns created by simultaneous, twin and overlapping dialectic relationships and processes of individualization-socialization and classification-massization. In doing so, the article reinterprets the forms of old and new media and of communication and highlights blogs as they reveal a true communicative media potential; the article also discusses concepts such as “free labor”, which is also used by those who approach communication and media issues from political economy, and proposes new concepts such as virtual class and virtual petty bourgeoisie.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Communication and Media Studies

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Ercan Gündoğan *
0000-0001-6561-5012
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti

Publication Date

December 31, 2020

Submission Date

October 10, 2020

Acceptance Date

December 2, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Number: 36

APA
Gündoğan, E. (2020). A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication. Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 36, 77-98. https://doi.org/10.17829/turcom.808686
AMA
1.Gündoğan E. A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication. TURCOM. 2020;(36):77-98. doi:10.17829/turcom.808686
Chicago
Gündoğan, Ercan. 2020. “A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication”. Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi, nos. 36: 77-98. https://doi.org/10.17829/turcom.808686.
EndNote
Gündoğan E (December 1, 2020) A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication. Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi 36 77–98.
IEEE
[1]E. Gündoğan, “A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication”, TURCOM, no. 36, pp. 77–98, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.17829/turcom.808686.
ISNAD
Gündoğan, Ercan. “A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication”. Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi. 36 (December 1, 2020): 77-98. https://doi.org/10.17829/turcom.808686.
JAMA
1.Gündoğan E. A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication. TURCOM. 2020;:77–98.
MLA
Gündoğan, Ercan. “A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication”. Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 36, Dec. 2020, pp. 77-98, doi:10.17829/turcom.808686.
Vancouver
1.Ercan Gündoğan. A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication. TURCOM. 2020 Dec. 1;(36):77-98. doi:10.17829/turcom.808686

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