The Articulating Nature of New Racist Discourses and The Function of Media

This study is based on the literature addressing racism as a discursive phenomenon and focuses on the new racism bearing more on language that entered into circulation via discourses and while generating an indirect-implicit manner through the articulation of various discriminatory ideologies. In this scope, in-depth interviews were conducted with 20 people (10 women and 10 men) belonging to different ages and occupations and also follow the current political agenda and media politics. Interviewees were asked to read six news articles articulating ethnic, religious and sexual forms of discrimination with the aim of initiating and drawing a framework for conversation. The study derives its analytic framework from the discourse analysis by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, and on the concept set of this approach. In this framework, “articulation”, one of the establishing elements of the discourse approach of Laclau and Mouffe, is regarded as one of the essential axes in the analysis of the new racist discourse.