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.

在这项研究中，出现在土耳其黄金时段八部最受欢迎的土耳其电视剧第一季所有剧集中的老年角色以及出现在 Netflix 上八部“原创”土耳其电视剧第一季所有剧集中的老年角色进行比较定量和定性内容分析。从这个意义上说，本研究的目的是揭示电视和Netflix等媒体环境向观众承诺了什么样的老年生活。调查结果显示，与土耳其人口相比，黄金时段电视剧中老年人的比例明显不足，换句话说，他们象征性地被淘汰并遭受年龄歧视。另一个发现是，Netflix 上对老年人的描绘比电视上更公平。尽管 Netflix 上老年人的比例也不足，但这两个平台之间的差异在统计上并不显着。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，但研究发现 Netflix 和黄金时段电视之间的性别比例没有显着差异。调查结果还表明，在定性评估时，没有哪个老年角色在这两个平台上被描绘成主要角色，而且，尤其是在拥有职业方面，老年人，特别是老年女性，在两个平台上都被描绘得更加负面。意味着老年妇女面临双重危险。