Dating programs in the context of the popular culture and gender: the example of "Marry Me at Esra Erol"

In this thesis, a month of the program ?Esra Erol?da Evlen Benimle? (Marry me at Esra Erol) was analyzed in the context of the popular culture and gender. The aim of the thesis was to understand how signs intended for patriarchal ideology are represented and whether the patriarchal ideology was undergo any transformation or not in the dating shows. For this thesis, it was important to find an answer that how the dating programs represent roles of women and men and which patriarchal signs and stereotyped sexist roles is used in the program. The program was analyzed by making use of studies on popular culture, television and gender in Turkey by comparing the world. For the analysis, the semiotic analysis was applied on account of the suitability for television criticism and this thesis. In this context, the program ?Esra Erol?da Evlen Benimle? was considered as a text and was examined with the approach of Barthes. As a result of the analysis, it is determined that the program ?Esra Erol?da Evlen Benimle? legitimates gender roles by reproducing stereotypes related to women and men.