KİŞİLERARASI İLİŞKİLERDE SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİRLİK, SOSYAL MEDYA VE METAVERSE

Year 2022, Volume: 6 Issue: 3, 761 - 782, 29.11.2022

Esra Cizmeci Ümit

https://doi.org/10.30692/sisad.1109592

Abstract

Sosyal bir varlık olan insanın diğer insanlarla iletişim, etkileşim ve birtakım ilişkiler içerisinde olma ihtiyacı bulunmaktadır. Bunlardan en önemli iki ilişki biçimi, arkadaşlık ilişkileri ve romantik ilişkilerdir. Birey, sosyal yaşamda başlatılan her ilişkisinin sürmesini istemekte, bunun için de ilişkinin gerektirdiği şekillerde çaba sarf etmektedir. Sosyal medya platformlarıyla birlikte bu iki ilişki biçiminin hem deneyimlenme hem de sürdürülme biçimleri değişmiştir. Kimi ilişkilerin sürdürülebilirliği noktasında fayda sağlayan sosyal medya, kimi ilişkilerin bitmesine sebep olabilmektedir. Sosyal medya platformları da yakın zamanda sanal gerçeklik ortamlarına, meta evrene evrilecek ve sanal ağlarda sosyalleşme biçimi de boyut değiştirecektir. Metaverse, kullanıcılarının üç boyutlu sanal ortamlarda birlikte çalışmasına oyun oynamasına ve sosyalleşmesine olanak tanıyacaktır. Şu an sadece bazı dijital oyun platformları metaverse deneyimini sunsa da Facebook’un sahibi Mark Zuckerberg’in şirketinin adını “Meta” olarak değiştirmesi ve diğer önemli sosyal medya şirketlerinin de platformlarını bu meta evrene adapte edebilmek için yüklü yatırımlar yapmaya başlamış olması, sosyal medyanın kökten bir değişim sergileyeceğinin göstergesidir. Böylece arkadaşlık ilişkileri ve romantik ilişkilerde sürdürülebilirlik ile ilgili yeni biçimler, belki de yeni sürdürülebilirlik davranışları ortaya çıkacaktır. Bu bağlamda bu çalışmada, kişilerarası ilişkilerde sürdürülebilirlik kavramı çerçevesinde sosyal medyada yaşanan ve bir adım ötesinde varılacak nokta olan meta evrende yaşanacak olan ilişki biçimleri tartışılacaktır.

Keywords

Kişilerarası ilişkiler, İlişkisel sürdürülebilirlik, Sosyal medya, Metaverse

Sustainibility In Interpersonal Relations, Social Media and Metaverse

Abstract

As a social being, human beings need to communicate, interact and be in some relationships with other people. The two most important types of relationships are friendship relationships and romantic relationships. The individual wants every relationship started in social life to continue, and for this they make an effort in the ways required by the relationship. Together with social media platforms, the way these two relationship styles are both experienced and maintained has changed. Social media, which is beneficial for the sustainability of some relationships, can cause some relationships to end. Social media platforms will soon evolve into virtual reality environments, metaverse, and the way of socializing in virtual networks will also change dimensions. Metaverse will allow its users to work together, play games and socialize in three-dimensional virtual environments. Although only some digital gaming platforms offer the metaverse experience at the moment, the fact that Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, has changed the name of his company to "Meta" and other important social media companies have started to make heavy investments to adapt their platforms to this metaverse, this is an indication of a radical change for social media. Thus, new forms of sustainability in friendships and romantic relationships and perhaps new sustainability behaviors will emerge. In this context, in this study, within the framework of the concept of sustainability in interpersonal relations, the forms of relationships that will be experienced in the metaverse, which are experienced in social media and are the point to be reached one step further, will be discussed.

Keywords

Interpersonal relationships, Relational maintenance, Social media, Metaverse

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