The process of advertization of the news photographs as a tool for the reproduction of ideology in the period of post-truth

Today, news photography is not only a way to transmit news but also qualified as a powerful ideological device that has the power to change the perspective of the masses. Through mass media, the dominant ideology is reproduced, fictionalized and legitimized. By digitalization, globalization and the ideology of consumption, these tools are intertwined and ideologically support and transform each other. Accordingly, it can be determined that the language of advertising dominates all forms before it. News photograph manages cultural, verbal and visual codes and is pure communication. The visual design of the advertisement is remarkable, decisive and persuasive. News photography and advertising photography are designed on the same software and meet for the same ideological purposes. It can be said that news photography has become widespread by using the post-truth period, which has lost its evidence and fact, in the form of fiction and false news. There is no difference between propaganda (PR) and persuasion (advertising) methods, their strength has been merged, the boundaries of news photography and advertising have blurred. In this context, it is possible to say that news photography has been segmented within the scope of market ideology and has become a product with a different target audience. News photography became a part of the design that uses the same methods as advertising in the same channels with digitalization. In this thesis, the elements of advertization were questioned through news samples and the element of advertization in news photos was investigated with an economic-political approach by using a hybrid research method. As a result of the research and discussions, it was observed that the news photography was coded in the context of form and content and was advertised.