Hegemony Mediated: the Roots of Militaristic Media Discourse in Turkey

The major lines of sociological critique take the view that the tight bind of media to the market displaces the logic of and contents of the field of politics itself, and the dominance of one social actor or group within the media discourse depends on their economic power in the system. In this book Kazaz posits that explaining the dominance within the media discourse on merely economic grounds is reductionism because such approach ignores the cultural components. The military as a strong social actor and militarist discourse as a component of national foundational myth in Turkey suggest a ground for examining the role of cultural factors in the media realm. Thereby, using the idea of hegemony, as it is proposed by Antonio Gramsci, Kazaz investigates the roots of militarist media discourse in Turkey in cultural and political sense, and how the militaristic discourse is maintained within the sphere of media economics.