ALEVİ MEDYASI ÜZERİNE AKADEMİK ARAŞTIRMALAR: BİR SİSTEMATİK ALANYAZIN TARAMASI

Alevi communities, which have spread to many places in Turkey and around the world with migration mobility, have developed a large number of mass communication tools in order to express their identities, promote them or interact with each other. The tools defined as Alevi media have a wide variety from traditional to new media with both qualitative and quantitative dimensions. The Alevi media, which is widespread in today’s world from periodicals to virtual networks, has not received the attention it deserves in the field of social sciences, especially communication studies, and has become a research subject that has been little studied. Although research on Alevi media has increased in recent years, it can be stated that the field of study has a rather scattered. The subject of this research is the examination of scientific/academic works that focus on Alevi media or include Alevi media types in their content. The research, which aims to examine academic studies on Alevi media with systematic literature review / systematic literature analysis, has more than one purpose. The first of the aims is to present the accumulation of the field by presenting the scope of current research in a tidy manner. Another aim is to contribute to the creation of a holistic and comprehensive map for future studies that will focus on the subject. It is also among the aims to contribute to the direction of new research by drawing attention to the continuous and neglected points in the field. For the research, YÖK National Thesis Center and internet-based search engines were searched with various keywords