Digital journalism practices through the perspective of postmodern consumption ideology

In the first chapter of work, modernity and postmodernity concepts are discussed. In the second chapter, development of consumption concept and links of consumption concept with postmodernity are examined. In the third chapter, technical and economic condition of digital newspapers which examined from postmodern consumption ideology perspective are elaborated. The last chapter of the work, it is aimed to obtain the results on how the news are created based on consumption ideology in the mainstream digital newspapers. In this study, the most visited mainstream newspapers in Turkey are analyzed via content analysis. Postmodern consumption categories, used in the analysis phase, created based on Baudrillard's perspective. At the same time, in this chapter, it is aimed to reveal the role of digital journalism on producing postmodern consumption ideolgy. Consumption is an old notion as well as it's meaning has expanded continuously at the same time with process of development of societies. Consumption notion, gaining a new meaning through postmodern culture, caused to define societies after modern period as postmodern consumption societies. Mass communication tools have major role on the create and generalise to consumption values that main notion of shape of indıviduals daily practices. Digital newspaper forms as one of the most important mass media tools are interaction with consumption values like the other media tools. In spite of this, digital journalism is not be evaluated like the other mass media within this perspective. This study aims to prove that the news as the output of the digital journalism, such as the mainstream mass media products, created consonantly by the logic of the postmodern consumption