Abstract:

When evaluating the position in the social structure of women in Turkey, it can be considered that, in terms of gender, women are given a role that they are vulnerable and dependent on men and this is the continuation of the structure that reinforces male dominance. Nowadays, gendered discourses about women located in various mediums in a way that continues this structure. This discourse in which women are forced through certain stereotypes and that loads them into certain roles, are legitimized by the mass media and various media. And one of these media is online news portal. In this study, it is aimed to examine how the news about women take place in an online news portal. For this purpose, because the most watched news portal between the date of the examination carried out was http://www.hurriyet.com.tr, news included women in this online news portal is evaluated in fifteen day period in terms of issues, language and discourse; and the ways how news about women take part in this medium has been studied in the context of gender.