@article{article_985112, title={Education for Broadcasting A Comparative Study on Turkish and American Broadcast Students}, journal={Kültür ve İletişim}, volume={1 (2)}, pages={77–92}, year={1998}, author={Mutlu, Erol and Tuncel, Hakan}, keywords={comparative research, Education and broadcasting, Turkish and American Broadcast Students}, abstract={This study, based on a comparative research, aims at casting light upon the nature of the close relationship between socio-cultural discourses and broadcast education at universities. The hypothesis that dominant socio-cultural discourses within a particular society should be expected to determine the framework of broadcast education, rendering it only to a carrier or reinforcing agent of such discourses. That is, a dependent variable in the process of upbringing the would-be broadcasters. Hence a reformulation of the curricula is required such as to provide students the ability to critically comprehend and discuss, in relation to the globalizing tendencies, the socio-cultural and political issues in their own countries}, number={2}, publisher={İmge Kitabevi Yayınları}