Journal of Yaşar University
Yazarlar: Ozlem KUKRER AYDIN
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DOI:10.19168/jyu.26665
Anahtar Kelimeler:Advertisement,Semiology,Consumption Culture,Characters of Television Series
Özet: Consumption culture is created to shape consumption-driven social values and life patterns of individuals. Especially advertisements and television series are of great importance for the reproduction of the values of consumption culture. In recent years, advertisements and television series are intertwined for the dissemination of the values of consumption culture to the community. Besides brand and product placement in television series, the frequent use of the characters of television series in advertising exemplifies this situation. The most important reason of this application in advertising is that local television series, which have been located on the main broadcast since 2000, have a high rate of traceability. Thus, the characters of television series, which have high rates of traceability and use the mythic values, have become a part of the daily life of audiences. Consequently, this led the characters of television series that have recently become the main element of popular culture to appear in advertisements. Accordingly, the main assumption of this study is that the television series and advertisements reproduce the dominant ideology by using the values of the consumption culture. In other words, the aim of the study is to reveal the dominant ideological values of the consumption culture reproduced by using the characters of television series in advertisements. In this context, three advertisements in which the characters of “Yalan Dünya” series take part are examined through semiotic analysis method within the scope of this study. In this study, "the steps of semiotic analysis for communication in "Semiotic Analysis Guide" by Seiler (2006) are applied for the semiotic analysis. In the conclusion of the study, it has been set forth that the dominant values of the consumption culture such as individualism, competition, hedonism, sexism, ostentation and status seeking are reproduced by the advertisements of different product categories (bank, nutrition and automobile) in which the characters of “Yalan Dünya” series figure