Analysis of news about environmental problems published in the national media using the word cloud method: Between 2018-2022

The environment can be defined as the environment in which living things interact and are influenced by each other throughout their lives. Living things can influence the environment positively or negatively. Environmental problems are discussed on many platforms and solutions are sought both nationally and internationally. In addition, many positive and negative news stories are reflected in the national and international media every day and are examined and discussed by conscious people. Word cloud analysis is a visualization method that has been widely used in recent years. In this visualization technique, the frequency of occurrence of the word in selected texts in different areas is reflected and the word size changes according to the frequency of the word. The words grouped in the word cloud contain the most frequently repeated words on the topic under study. In this research, news about environmental problems reflected in the national media between 2018 and 2022 were scanned in the search engine and analyzed using Word Cloud. According to the analysis results, the most repeated words in negative news were "water, air, plastic, pollution, forest, mask, gloves", the words "waste, environment, transformation, electricity, climate, agriculture, deposit" came to the fore in positive news