Abstract:

The geopolitics of the media, as well as the role of the media in the design of geopolitical realities, provides information about the geographics where the most influential media organizations are located, demonstrates the media hierarchy. The concepts of governance of the states, the hard and soft power elements determine the media hierarchy. The media organizations can take advantage of the superiorities of their central countries. In this study, the aim is to explain the geopolitics of the media through the freedom of the press, thus showing the media hierarchy. In this regard, the latest Freedom House report on free and independent media has been studied, and the Wallerstein’s analysis of modern world systems has made a visual analysis of the data of some countries classified as central, semi-environmental and environmental. It also analyzed the levels of democracy in the countries involved. The geography of the countries freely classified in terms of political rights and citizenship rights is also the geography of the free media, the geopolitics of the media is determined by the country’s characteristics.

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