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The Corporate Social Responsibility of the Media and the Turkish Media: Perspectives of Journalism Educators on Media and Corporate Responsibility

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Today, media organizations—as for-profit organizations—conduct corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects. In this way, they contribute to society and strengthen and/or establish relationships with their stakeholders. One of the reasons why they engage in CSR is related to the impact of CSR on their reputation, and media organizations are aware of this outcome; they are also in “business.” This study aims to explore the concept of media responsibility and CSR of media institutions in Turkey from journalism educators’ point of view. It also aims to understand journalism educators’ perceptions of responsibility (also from the business perspective) of the Turkish media. The research has practical implications on journalism education because it investigates how and to what extent these issues are integrated into curricula, including the challenges in teaching media and corporate responsibility to journalism students.

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  1. University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Tevhide Serra Gorpe

  2. Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey

    Burcu Oksuz

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  1. School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Franzisca Weder

  2. Department Media, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany

    Lars Rademacher

  3. M3TRIX Institute of Sustainable Business, Cologne, Germany

    René Schmidpeter

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Gorpe, T.S., Oksuz, B. (2023). The Corporate Social Responsibility of the Media and the Turkish Media: Perspectives of Journalism Educators on Media and Corporate Responsibility. In: Weder, F., Rademacher, L., Schmidpeter, R. (eds) CSR Communication in the Media. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18976-0_12

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