An Atempt to Read Referants of Headscarved Women in Media
MEDYANIN FOTOĞRAF GÖNDERGELERİ ÜZERİNDEN BAŞÖRTÜLÜ FİGÜRLERİ OKUMA DENEMESİ

Author : -Birsen Banu OKUTAN
Number of pages : 8-29

Abstract

The media which has power to create stereotypes and make people believe, develops discourses on women fgures and constructs mental worlds through the words. The discourse analysis on media has increased from day to day. However, it is thought that the photographs in the media are as signifcant as the discourses in the media. The aim of this study is to analyze the fgures of headscarved women in the selected newspapers through the methodology of Barthes based on semiology. Therefore, in this study, the general framework of Barthes on semiology will be indicated, the selected photographs in the newspapers will be examined according to the formula of signifer-signifed and then the signifcaton of the photos will be discussed. At the end, which types of classifcaton system is consolidated and which types of effects are created on the society by the pictures of the headscarved women engraved in the receptves’ mind will be demonstrated. Ultmately, it is expected to illuminate the dark points of schematc formaton in the visual memory constructed through the media photographs.

Keywords

Photograph, headscarf, newspaper, semiology, social habit memory.

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