Cilt 9 Sayı 56 (2021)

Araştırma Makalesi

Fantazyadan Yeni Distopyalara: Anti-Sosyal Medya

Yayımlandı 30.01.2021

Cilt 9 Sayı 56 kapak

Öz

Geleneksel medyanın sosyal çağa dönüşümü, Web 2.0’ın ortaya çıkmasına paralel gerçekleşmiştir. Başka bir deyişle medya ‘sosyalleşmiş’, kullanıcı merkezli ve sosyal tabanlı olmuştur. Sosyal medyanın temel manifestosu katılım, açıklık, bağlantılı olma, karşılıklı iletişim ve topluluk kavramlarından ortaya çıkmıştır. Sosyal medya ve gelişen mobil teknolojiler ile medya araçlarını kullanma biçimleri de dönüşüme uğramış ve beraberinde getirdiği yeniliklerle toplumları global bir çerçeveye bağlamıştır. Bu global çerçeve, toplum bilimlerinde olduğu kadar diğer disiplinlerde de araştırma alanları doğurmuştur. Bu çalışma, multidisipliner açıdan, yukarıda bahsedilen yeni medya- yeni teknolojiler ve yeni sosyal toplum üzerinden üretilen sanatsal çalışmaların incelenmesi üzerine temellendirilmiştir. Sosyal bir fantazya üzerinden oluşturulan yeni kültürün, anti-sosyal bir zemine doğru kaymasına şahit olduğumuz günümüzde, ele alınan sosyal gerçekliğin ne kadar gerçek olduğunu irdelemektedir. Oluşturulan hiper-gerçek kimliklerin, bireylerin ‘mış gibi’ davrandıkları platformlar üzerinden gerçekliğini sorgulamaktadır. Oluşturulan fantazya bir distopyaya dönüşmekte midir? Sosyal medya kimlikleri, bireyleri anti-sosyal bir mecraya sürüklemekte midir? Özellikle son yıllarda üretilen filmlerde işlenen distopik sosyal-medya temalarının artması yalnızca bir kaygının sonucu mudur? Çalışma, sosyal medyanın, bireyler, toplumlar ve gelecek perspektifi açısından ele alındığı, film, kısa film ve diziler üzerinden incelemeler ve örneklemeler sunmaktadır. Sosyal medya bağımlılığı, sosyolojik ve psikolojik etkileri, kişilik bozukluğu gibi farklı başlıklar ekseninde üretilen sanatsal çalışmalar incelenmektedir. Sosyal medyanın yanlış kullanımı ile ortaya çıkan özel hayatın gizliliğini ihlal, birey ilişkileri, sanal taciz, siber zorbalık, sanal şiddet gibi pek çok başlığın sanatsal çalışmalar üzerinden verdiği mesajlara atıf yapılmıştır. Çalışmalarda işlenen anti-sosyal temalar, kavramsal bağlamın dışında, kullandıkları görsel dil, renk, doku gibi sanatsal bileşenler ile incelenmiş, verilen mesaj ile oluşturulmak istenen görsel algı seviyesi karşılaştırılmıştır. Sonuç olarak, yeni medyada yeni eşitsizlikleri, sosyal-medya ekseninde ele alan bu çalışma, kitle-yoğun medya ortamlarının, toplumlar üzerinde oluşturduğu negatif etkileri sanatsal çalışmalar üzerinden inceleyerek, eleştirel bir sosyal-medya tablosu ortaya koymaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler sosyal medya, anti-sosyal medya, distopya, yeni medya, sanat

Abstract

From Fantasia to New Dystopias: Anti-Social Media

The transformation of traditional media into social age took place parallel to the emergence of Web 2.0. Social media and developing mobile technologies and ways of using media tools have also been transformed and connected the societies to a global framework with the innovations it brings. This study is based on the multidisciplinary perspective on the study of the above-mentioned new media- new technologies and artistic works produced through the new social society. Nowadays, when we witness the shift of the new culture created over a social fantasy to an anti-social ground, it examines how real the social reality is. It questions the reality of the hyper-real identities created through the platforms where individuals act as ‘pretend to be’. Does the created fantasy turn into a dystopia? Do social media identities drag individuals into an anti-social channel? Is the increase of dystopic social-media themes processed especially in the films produced in recent years only a result of anxiety? The study offers reviews and examples through films, short movies and series in which social media are addressed in terms of individuals, societies and future perspectives. Artistic works produced on the basis of different topics such as social media addiction, sociological and psychological effects, personality disorder are examined. Reference is made to the messages given by many topics such as violation of privacy, individual relations, virtual harassment, cyberbullying, and virtual violence that arise with the misuse of social media. Apart from the conceptual context, the anti-social themes covered in the studies were examined with artistic components such as visual language, color, texture, and the level of visual perception desired to be created with the given message was compared. As a result, this study, which deals with new inequalities in the new media in the social-media axis, reveals a critical social-media picture by examining the negative effects of mass-intensive media environments on societies through artistic works.

Keywords social media, anti-social media, dystopia, new media, art

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