Abstract:

History of humanity is based upon power wars. In the course of time, groups and institutions have constantly tried to push their powers, authorities, statues, sexes and beliefs on other persons. In this context, it is possible to express power as social relations. Power which varies from one person to another, increases or decreases and shared in daily life, not only adds distinction to individuals but also it has cultural aspects. The number of soap operas serialized in Turkish channels has increased day by day in the last decade depending on televiewers' interest. Taking the process of communicating and perpetuating televiewers' attention in soap operas which live on social realities, the communication between individuals and to what extent power representation is performed forms the basis of this study. In accordance with this purpose, the first section of the study finds out power and literature with regard to television. The second section of the study, using as base two soap operas in Turkish channels with regard to the ratings, aims to reveal power representations and their relations with social realities.

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