The Role of Television Series in the Project of Discrediting the Representation (Image) of Religious Family: The Case of " Kızılcık Şerbeti " TV Series

Abstract

Communication is a way of transferring emotions, thoughts, information, etc. between individuals. Throughout history, humanity has found countless means of communication, from smoke communication to technological devices. Today, most of the communication tools have become tools that everyone can easily own. Among the mass media, television is a medium that is owned by a large segment of the society and where everyone of all ages can find content for themselves. Viewers have access to a myriad of content on topics such as politics, sports, education and religion. In the modern world, watching television is one of the most common activities that the family institution can do together. Especially the evening hours, when the number of viewers is the highest, are called "prime time" and these hours are filled with TV series. Thus, TV series are among the most watched broadcasts. Therefore, everything watched here can affect the individual after a while. As a result of many studies on the subject, it is seen that although the impact power of TV series varies depending on many characteristics such as gender, age, occupational status and education, it is not possible to be completely unaffected. In Turkish TV series, there are many series on topics that come to the forefront from time to time. In recent years, the number of series related to religion has increased. Since the broadcasting history of Turkey, there have been series with religious content that have created both positive and negative perceptions of the religious community. Generally, religious people are portrayed with labels such as "bigot, ignorant" in the content where religious people are portrayed negatively. The series "Kızılcık Şerbeti", which was selected as the sample of the study, can reinforce negative ideas about religious individuals with many of the details covered in the series. In this context, "Kızılcık Şerbeti" is an important source on the subject of the study. The aim of the study is to analyze the way the series "Kızılcık Şerbeti", which started to be broadcast in 2022, handles religiosity and at which points it feeds the negative judgments that already exist.