Quarantine as a Simulation of the Future Development of Spatiality

Yıl 2022, , 347 - 372, 31.12.2022

Ece Buldan

https://doi.org/10.31198/idealkent.881060

Öz

In the age of information, the production of space includes two different but reciprocal layers, which are physical and digital. Although domination of one to the other always demonstrates change according to sociability, historicality, and spatiality, the general disposition is towards digital spaces. This study aims to demonstrate the transformation of spatiality in isolated days caused by COVID-19 pandemic disease that includes two steps which are transition from outside to inside and from real life to virtual life. For that purpose, after gathering broad information from the social media accounts of people, who are working from home during the quarantine, were traced. Then, archival surveys were held to find the trend hashtags and the correction of these hashtags was supported with the Google Trends graphs. The data obtained from observations and Google Trends results were evaluated within the framework of the production of space that changed with Manuel Castells' space of flows and space of places and, Paul Virilio's Speed in the media theories. The results show that the transition of society from outside to inside has several adaptation phases, and then the space of places is needed even at the highest level of involvement in the space of flows.

Anahtar Kelimeler

COVID-19, pandemic, production of space, electronic spaces, physical place, COVID 19, pandemi, mekânın üretimi, elektonik mekânlar, fiziksel yerler

Teşekkür

A special thank goes to Prof. Dr. Ipek Akpınar for her comments and feedbacks. I also would like to give my thanks to Assist. Prof. İpek Ek, Ms.A. Ozan Akbaş, Ms.Sc. Gizem Nur Aydemir and all other interviees who made a big contribution during my research phase.

Mekânsallığın Gelecek Gelişmelerinin Simülasyonu Olarak Karantina

Öz

Bilgi çağında, mekânın üretimi fiziksel ve dijital olarak iç içe geçmiş iki katmandan oluşmaktadır. Bu iki katmandan birinin diğerini sosyabilite, tarihsellik ve mekânsallık olarak baskılaması değişkenlik gösterse de, genel yönelim dijital mekânlara doğru olmuştur. Bu çalışma COVID-19 pandemisi sürecinde mekânsallaşmanın dönüşümünü iki adım olarak ele almıştır. Bunlardan birincisi dış mekândan iç mekâna geçiş, diğeri ise gerçek hayattan sanal hayata geçiştir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda, karantina sürecinde evden çalışanların sosyal medya hesapları gözlemlenerek genel bir bilgi oluşturulmuştur. Ardından arşiv taraması yöntemiyle insanların en çok kullandıkları etiketler araştırılmış ve bu veriler Google Trends grafikleriyle desteklenmiştir. Google’da araştırılma oranı artış gösteren etiketlere ve gözlemlere bağlı olarak süreçler takip edilmiştir. Elde edilen veriler Manuel Castells’in akımların mekânı ve yerlerin mekânı ile Paul Virilio’nun medyadaki hız teorileriyle değişim gösteren mekânın üretimi çerçevesinde değerlendirilmiştir. Sonuçlar toplumun dış mekândan iç mekâna geçişinin birkaç adaptasyon evresine sahip olduğunu ve sonrasında da akımlar mekânına en dâhil olunan zamanda bile yerlerin mekânına ihtiyaç duyulduğunu göstermektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

COVID 19, pandemi, mekânın üretimi, elektonik mekânlar, fiziksel yerler

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