A CONTENT ANALYSIS RELATED TO POSTGRADUATE THESES ON THE RADIO FIELD IN TURKEY

The radio emerging after the printed media, as the first electromagnetic mass communication tool capable of reaching large masses has been influencing communities for many years. However, with the emergence of television and the expansion of its influence, the public attention on the radio has diminished. The first postgraduate theses written in the field of communication in Turkey coincided with the first years of the 1980s. These years were also the times that the radio had already left its popularity on TV. For this reason, the studies related to the radio broadcasting in academic circles in Turkey, have lagged behind the other fields of communication. The aim of this study is to once again emphasize the importance of radio broadcasting that has become popular again all over the world with developing technological possibilities, and also is to demonstrate to what extent the radio is considered important as a communication discipline by academic circles in Turkey through the examination of the postgraduate theses. All the postgraduate theses written about the radio broadcasting being reached via Y？K Thesis Database were subjected to content analysis considering their types, discipline, years of publication, universities, topics, and methods. At the same time, the quantitative differences between the theses about radio, television and film within the scope of Radio and Television or Radio, Television and Film that both are inclusive departments of radio field in Turkey have been identified as comparative. Moreover, in order to compare with theses in Turkey and abroad in terms of their subjects, the 105 postgraduate theses written about radio in the world between 2010-2017 on the Proquest database were reviewed and the most studied sub-topics were determined. As a result of the study, it is seen that the topics related to radio broadcasting in Turkey are not adequately dealt with as a communication discipline. Radio is of limited importance for researchers, especially at the doctoral phase, which is the advanced level of academic expertise. In terms of the sub-topics studied, it has been determined that the researchers adopt a different approach from the studies in the world