Hate Speech and Discriminatory Discourse in Media 2018 Report is prepared in the scope of Media Watch on Hate Speech project, includes along with annual results along with quantitative and qualitative analyses of hate speech data for 2018 and two discriminatory discourse reports entitled Representation of children in print media of Turkey - June 2018 and "Saturday Mothers/People" in national press of Turkey: May 1995-September 2018 which focuses on two topics that stood out in 2017.
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CHAPTER I: HATE SPEECH IN 2018 IN PRINT MEDIA OF TURKEY
4389 columns and news articles targeting national, ethnic and religious groups were found in 2018. Since 205 publications generated hate speech against more than one group in different categories, these articles are analyzed in accordance with the number of featured groups/categories (more than once). Thus, the total number of analyzed items reached 5044. In all these analyzed content, 6517 hate speech items against 98 groups had been found.
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CHAPTER II: 2018 DISCRIMINATORY DISCOURSE REPORTS
Representation of children in the print media of Turkey - in June 2018 report analyzes how news and columns, in which children's issues are covered in the press, are produced. For this report, a print press was conducted based on keywords. In this review, all newspaper texts were listed, including the word ‘child’ – and the word's sound changes with suffixes. Within the scope of the research, 2459 news texts and columns containing the word ‘child’, which were published in eight newspapers (Birgün, Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Decision, Middle East, Sabah, Sözcü, Yeni Şafak) throughout the month, were reviewed. The texts were subjected to two basic questions: What are the themes of texts about children and how is the produced content presented?
The report starts with an article titled “Children’s Rights and Media”, which is an introduction to the notions of “child”, “childhood”, “children’s rights” and the relationship between children and the media, written by Ezgi Koman, who works in the field of children’s rights. In the chapter covering the analysis of print media, in which the findings of the scanning work are presented, there are analyses dealing with structures and discourses of texts that are exemplary of themes frequently found in newspaper pieces. The report ends with a concluding chapter which summarizes the analysis of the representation of children in print media and offers some suggestions for a practice of media that respects and promotes children’s rights.
Saturday Mothers/People in national press of Turkey: May 1995-September 2018 was discussed in the Saturday Mothers/People in national press of Turkey: May 1995-September 2018 report through the selected sample that covers 50 weeks within the 24-year period and social memory narration in accordance with changing social and political agenda were scrutinized in the report.
The report starts with quantitative findings and analysis of the news about Saturday Mothers/People in the press. Then, it continues with headlines examining how the articles about Saturday Mothers/People are structed, how the sit-in and the group are defined and positioned by newspapers. The report ends with a conclusion which offers an overview of presentation of Saturday Mothers/People in Turkey’s print media.
