Infrastructural analysis of an industry is an analysis of the basic economic indicators of that industry both singularly and relationally. The basic dimensions of infrastructural analysis are the economic development of the industry, sub-branches, geographical distribution and concentration, company structures and scales, employment status, wages and gender distribution.
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The Political Economy of Media in Turkey: An Infrastructural Analysis
Çağrı Kaderoğlu Bulut (Ankara University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3270-6.ch010
Abstract
This study examines the infrastructural features of the media industry in Turkey in the 2000s. The study posits that the analysis of the inner workings of the media as an industrial-social institution is a way of understanding how the media is related with the overall system it is a part of. In order to do that, it is crucial to undertake the infrastructural mapping of the media. In this study, the dimensions of the media industry such as the branches of economic activity, geographical distribution, corporate structures and scales, employment, wages, gender distribution, and unionization levels are discussed as the basic indicators forming the infrastructure of the media industry. The datasets which the study is based on are taken from the NACE codes, which are used in the statistical classification of economic activities in Europe and are also valid for Turkey. The boundaries of media industry are defined through six basic branches of economic activity classified in NACE 18, 58, 59, 60, 63,73 codes and these fields of activity are discussed both by themselves and as a relational whole.