PRESENTATION OF SCI-TECH NEWS IN THE INTERNET MEDIA

Özgehan ÖZKAN¹

Science news which also includes health news, it should be shown awareness in regard to compliance with ethical principles. Besides that, it can be seen especially in parallel with “Click”–“Advertising” equation in the internet media that an attitude of negligence towards the reality and the discourse of scientific source arises. The objective of this study is to determine in what way science news is presented in the internet media. It is also aimed at revealing to what extent national media institutions digress–in particular through headlines, photographs and spots-from the scientific context of the subject in science news added on their websites, in order to be able to increase “the potential of clicking”. The sampling in this study has been chosen from science news shown on websites of national media institutions. When taking into consideration analyses regarding news seen in the internet media, it has been found out that headlines, spots and photographs do not truly reflect the real situation and some information in the news is added, modified or removed, briefly the news becomes deceptive in order to get more clicks and increase advertising revenues. According to the occupational principles of the press, it is required that all media institutions make news completely, truly, correctly, multifacetedly and by adhering to discourse of news source. It is seen that the internet media neglects these principles in some news and deceives their readers.

Keywords
Internet, Media, Science, News, Communication,