Social Actions and Construction Practices of ’the Other’ in Iran Written Press (Case of Kayhan, Javan Newspaper

Abstract

Social actions emerge as an indicator of democracy when there is dissatisfaction with the management and when things do not g oto the desired level in the social environment. In the slıghtest spark that may emerge between the powers of power and the public, those who first operate the bureaucratic mechanism also resort to the power and influence of the media and thus create discursive practices. These discursive practices are mostly presented as bad, devaluation of the other, and an effort to gain legitimacy against the other. As an extension of the mutual expectations among the gevorning people, social actions must operate on the basic of mutual consensus. The aim of this study is to examine the social activity with economic indicators which started in Mashhad, İran on 28 December 2017 and lasted for about 15 days. For this purpose, the presentation of the news was discussed in Kayhan and Javan newspapers between 1 January and 4 January 2018 when the violence of the events increased and the tension of the regime (reformist) was high on both sides and the headlines , photographs and contents of the newspapers were discussed. According to the results of the research, the news in the Javan and Kayhan newspapers, which is known for its proximity to the İranian regime, was handled in a discursive dimension, and it was concluded that it was based on its discursive practice and used photographs and titles that served in this direction