Post-Kamusal Çağda Bilgi İktidarı: Algoritmik Filtreleme ve Ortak Akıl Krizi

Abstract

Bu makale, dijital platformlar tarafından yönlendirilen algoritmik filtreleme mekanizmalarının, çağdaş toplumların kamusal iletişim yapısını dönüştürerek Habermasçı anlamda diyalojik süreçlerle oluşan ortak akıl üretimini tehdit ettiğini ileri sürmektedir. Burada “ortak akıl” ile kastedilen, toplumsal aktörlerin karşılıklı rasyonel müzakere yoluyla kolektif sorunlara çözüm üretme kapasitesidir. Jürgen Habermas”ın iletişimsel eylem kuramı ve kamusal alan modeli ile Michael Foucault’nun bilgi rejimi kavramsallaştırması ekseninde yürütülen bu teorik analiz, bilgiye erişimin yalnızca teknik değil, aynı zamanda derin biçimde politik ve epistemik bir mesele haline geldiğini ortaya koyar. Bu çalışma, ilgili sorunsalı anlamak ve tartışmak için kuramsal analiz yöntemini benimsemektedir. Algoritmalar, içerikleri kişiselleştirerek bireyleri yankı odalarına yönlendirmekte, böylece toplumsal çoğulluk zemininde gelişmesi beklenen bu diyalojik akıl rasyonel müzakereyi parçalara ayırmaktadır. Bu süreç, kamusal akıl yürütmenin temelini oluşturan ve ortak aklın kurucu unsuru olan müşterek referans çerçevesinin aşınmasına neden olmakta, bireylerin yalnızca bilgiye değil, birbirlerine dair anlayış geliştirme kapasitesine de zarar vermektedir. Makale, bu gelişmeleri “post-kamusal çağ” kavramı etrafında değerlendirerek, algoritmik sistemlerin yalnızca bilgiyi değil, aynı zamanda demokratik karar almanın dayandığı diyalojik ortak akıl alanını da yapılandırdığını ileri sürmektedir. Sonuç olarak, bu yeni bilgi rejimi, diyalojik ortak aklın krizini derinleştirerek, epistemik eşitsizlikleri yeniden üretmekte ve dijitalleşen toplumlarda kamusal tahayyülün krizine işaret etmektedir.

Keywords

• Ortak Akıl
• Algoritmik Filtreleme
• Post Kamusal Alan
• Bilgi İktidarı
• Bilgiye Erişim Adaleti.

Information Power in the Post-Public Age: Algorithmic Filtering and the Crisis of Common Sense

Abstract

This article argues that algorithmic filtering mechanisms driven by digital platforms threaten the production of common sense, understood here as the collective capacity to generate solutions to shared problems through mutual rational deliberation, by transforming the structure of public communication in contemporary societies. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas” theory of communicative action and model of the public sphere and Michel Foucault’s conceptualization of the regime of knowledge, this theoretical analysis reveals that access to information has become not only a technical but also a deeply political and epistemic issue. This study adopts a theoretical analysis method to understand and discuss the relevant problem. Algorithms personalize content and direct individuals to echo chambers, thus fragmenting the rational deliberation that is supposed to develop based on social plurality. This process erodes the common frame of reference that underpins public reasoning and damages the capacity of individuals to develop not only knowledge but also understanding of each other. The article analyses these developments in the context of the “post-public era” and argues that algorithmic systems are structuring not only information but also the space of common sense on which democratic decision-making is based. Consequently, this new information regime reproduces epistemic inequalities and points to a crisis of public imagination in digitalizing societies.

Keywords

• Common Sense
• Algorithmic Filtering
• Post Public Sphere
• Information Power
• Justice of Access to Information.

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