HES projects presentation on media in the context of social movements

This study, which aims to show how HES project news are presented in ideologically newspapers, comes from the idea of that the political economy of media and power government relationships are determinant in the process of making news. When we examine the newspaper we see that each news takes places with different content and this can be explained with newspapers publishing policy and political economy relations. Accordingly showing how HES projects news are in the newspapers explaining the factors that affects the process of making news and revealing how news contents are determined according to power/government relationships underpin the study. On the research part of the thesis, it is analyzed how HES project news are presented in 5 year period between 2012-2016 in the newspapers of Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet and Sabah which are considered ideologically different. In the study which content analysis method is applied it is determined that how the newspapers with different readers present the HES project news with subject content and news category. Moreover it is analyzed that the perspective of newspapers to the protest news and which themes are emphasized.