Güran, M. Salih; Özarslan, Hüseyin

Framing Theory has evolved into a theoretical and empirical paradigm that is used by numerous disciplines in communication contexts. To explore the prevalence of framing related concepts and methods in various research fields, a framing research literature of the last four years was obtained from 84 peer reviewed journals and content analyzed for their respective fields of research and the methods used. The sample was obtained by multiple keyword searches on the Web of Knowledge database of SSCI indexed journals listed on the Journal Citation Report of the Institute for Scientific Information as "communication journals". The findings revealed that in the recent research in relation to framing theory or frames in communication analysis encompassed various disciplines in the social sciences which kept up the methodological diversity and the differences in theoretical approaches. Beyond this, it was found that the most used method was framing analysis with the aim to detect and define issue-specific frames in communication.

Toruk, Ibrahim; Güran, M. Salih

During the course of a political communication process, political actors employ various communication techniques which are developed towards various goals. Particularly election times see a concentration and polarization in political communication actions on various media, but the press maintains still a most strategic role. The aim of this study is to explore the potential of the Turkish press for the projection of the relations between the Ak Party and the Hizmet Cemaati -The Community of Service as it was covered by the headlines on political events during the elections period. Five newspapers with differing political stances were chosen and their news coverage of the last thirty days before the elections was studied in relation to their genre and type, attributes, and definition of meaning. Then, the news coverage was qualitatively content analyzed in comparison to each other. The obtained data was was put to qualitative content analysis used for an analysis of the attitude that the Turkish press presented on the relationship of Ak party-The Community after the December 17 operations in light of the political communication. The analysis exposed clearly that each newspaper was occupied to cover the news according to her engaged ideology and political stance.