Abstract：
In this study, older characters that appeared in all the episodes of the first seasons of eight most popular Turkish TV series on prime-time televisions in Turkey and those appeared in all the episodes of the first seasons of eight \"original\" Turkish series on Netflix were submitted to a comparative quantitative and qualitative content analysis. In this sense, the aim of this study was to reveal what kind of old age is promised to viewers by such media environments as TV and Netflix. Findings revealed that, when compared to the Turkish population, older people were significantly underrepresented in prime-time series and that, in other words, they were symbolically eliminated and exposed to age discrimination. Another finding is that older people were portrayed more fairly on Netflix than TV. Although older individuals were inadequately represented on Netflix as well, the difference between the two platforms was not statistically significant. On the other hand, while older women are significantly less represented than older men on both platforms, the study found no significant difference in gender representation between Netflix and prime-time TV. The findings also indicated that no older character, when evaluated qualitatively, was represented as the major character on either platforms and that, especially when it comes to having a profession, older people, specifically older women, were portrayed more negatively on both platforms, which means that older women faced a double jeopardy.
摘要：
在这项研究中,出现在土耳其黄金时段电视上的八个最受欢迎的土耳其电视连续剧第一季的所有情节中的较老角色，以及出现在Netflix上的八个“原始”土耳其系列第一季的所有情节中的较老角色提交了比较定量和定性的内容分析。在这个意义上,这项研究的目的是揭示电视和Netflix等媒体环境对观众的承诺。调查结果显示,与土耳其人口相比，老年人在黄金时段序列中的代表性明显不足，换句话说,他们被象征性地淘汰，并受到年龄歧视。另一个发现是，与电视相比，Netflix对老年人的描绘更公平。尽管年长的人在Netflix上的代表性也不足，两个平台之间的差异无统计学意义。另一方面,虽然在这两个平台上，老年女性的比例明显低于老年男性，该研究发现，Netflix和黄金时段电视在性别代表性方面没有显着差异。调查结果还表明，没有年龄较大的角色，当定性评估时，在任何一个平台上都被表现为主要角色，尤其是当涉及到职业时，老年人,特别是老年妇女，在两个平台上都被描绘得更加负面，这意味着老年妇女面临双重危险。
