Presentation of the Marginal Identity on Television News (The Turkey Example)

While the social interaction, that mass media inevitably brings along in its train on one hand, causes identification from the aspect of the formation of the mutual identity, and on the other hand it lays the foundation for the expression/presentation of the identity change between the individuals in social life in a clearer way. the television news which define what is normal behavior and who should be accepted as normal people, in reality which behaviors of the people called marginal are accepted to be abnormal, is in a sense an important part of the elimination mechanism formed by the mutual identity. this is the main problem that this study dwells upon. in this study, tranvestites are analyzed as marginal sexsual identites and news on travesty are examined. moreover by pointing that the reason why tranvestites are thought to be marginal identites is tv news, the subject is discussed on this problematic.