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Dursun Can ŞİMŞEK

    Dursun Can ŞİMŞEK

    The objective of this study is to reevaluate the notions of meme and viral within the framework of Zygmunt Bauman’s vision of a ‘consumer society’. Thus, the notions were read through with o hermeneutic method and handled from many... more
    The objective of this study is to reevaluate the notions of meme
    and viral within the framework of Zygmunt Bauman’s vision of a
    ‘consumer society’. Thus, the notions were read through with o
    hermeneutic method and handled from many various aspects.
    Viral and meme contents have a function that is consumed at the
    point of production and transforms its producer into a consumer
    in the present. In the society of cyber consumers, shortening of the
    distance between actions like communication, consumption and
    fulfilment or their structural intertwining becomes a problem. In
    this social formation, communication focuses directly on
    information rather than meaning and context. Decontextualized
    information is reduced to a mere numerical value and
    informatized. Viral and meme are the most recent examples of this
    informatization.
    Keywords: Consumer society, viral, meme, social media.
    The aim of this study is to reveal how the interaction between human-machine and data has changed within the developments in web technologies. At this point, studies on web technologies were reviewed and interpreted with a hermeneutic... more
    The aim of this study is to reveal how the interaction between human-machine and data has changed within the developments in web technologies. At this point, studies on web technologies were reviewed and interpreted with a hermeneutic method by limiting purposive sampling. Thus, it is aimed to draw a theoretical framework. The theoretical discussions carried out by the study revealed that the development of web technologies has resulted in an axis shift in cyberspace, not in the direction of human-human or human-machine relationship, but towards machine-machine or machine-data relationship. The symbiotic coexistence of man and machine in cyberspace has undergone a role change with the visions determined by web technologies. The tendency of the developments is to equalise the role of the machine to the decision-making role of the human.
    Keywords: Web, Social media, Artificial intelligence, Cyber culture
    Abstract: As virtual public spaces, social media channels have a structure in which daily life practices are redefined within cyber culture. This structure interacts with real public life. These two forms both transform and affect each... more
    Abstract: As virtual public spaces, social media channels have a structure in which daily life practices are redefined within cyber
    culture. This structure interacts with real public life. These two forms both transform and affect each other. The culture of speed,
    which has a critical position in post-capitalist society, has radically changed the structure of 'things'. 'Time' is also included in this
    change. Context and time have been reduced to the present, and a smooth, negativity-free understanding of beauty has
    dominated aesthetics. Byung-Chul Han explained this dominance with the concept of 'kalocracy'. The main purpose of the study
    is to read the structure of social media channels with the concept of kalocracy and to expose the concept with a hermeneutic
    approach. On the other hand, as a result of the discussions, new questions have been raised about the status of the subject
    oppressed by kalocracy. These questions have made new studies a necessity.
    Keywords: Kalocracy, Transparency society, Individual, Beauty, Social media