With industrialization, the image
of a world that causes the destruction of human life into material power and
collapses in the name of an extreme rhythm has been gained to the individual.
The age of enlightenment against the rigid and dogmatic world of the Middle
Ages has begun to take a place in social life and declares that human beings
are dependent on the experts who will transform their body in the way of
becoming a perfect individual. In this new process, digital environments that
eliminate temporal and spatial constraints undertake the showcase of bodies
that have been the work of perfectness as a result of the extreme
rationalization of everyday life. With the emergence of social media, there
have been changes in shaping practices. The main reason for these changes is
that online media technologies play a central role in enabling a magical desire
to be admired. In this context, the aim of the study is to analyze through the
bodies how the capitalist mentality imposing the ideal of appreciation occurs
in social media. In the study, samples selected from fitness programs with more
than 200 thousand followers in instagram were examined by content analysis
method. As a result of this study, it is thought that even high-performance
sports content, where pleasure and pain are combined in practice, are moving
away from the aim of social media and supporting the toplum perfectable body
proj project of modern society.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | February 28, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2020 |