Foucault’un Öteki Mekânlarından Dijital Heterotopyaya: Instagram Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Yıl 2025, Sayı: 15, 279 - 296, 31.12.2025

Mürüvvet Çıkın

https://doi.org/10.56676/kiad.1648550

Öz

Bu çalışma, Michel Foucault’nun heterotopya kavramı çerçevesinde Instagram’ı incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Foucault’nun heterotopyayı “gerçek ile gerçek olmayan arasında” konumlanan bir alan olarak tanımlaması, kavramın farklı bağlamlarda yeniden yorumlanmasına olanak tanımaktadır. Sosyal medya ortamları, bireylerin hem gerçek dünyaya bağlı hem de ondan bağımsız bir şekilde toplumsal normlardan sapmalarına olanak tanır. Bu nedenle söz konusu platformlar, heterotopyanın üretildiği alanlar olarak işlev görmektedir. Çalışmada, Instagram’ın heterotopik alanlar oluşturma potansiyeline sahip olduğu öne sürülmektedir. Bu savı desteklemek amacıyla, kasıtlı örnekleme yöntemi kapsamında kriter örnekleme kullanılmış; heterotopya ilkelerini yansıttığı düşünülen belirli platform fonksiyonları ile bu ilkelerle ilişkili içerik üreten hesaplar, önceden belirlenen ölçütler doğrultusunda seçilmiştir. Bu içerikler Foucault’nun heterotopya ilkeleri temelinde analiz edilmiştir. Analiz sonucunda, Instagram’ın, fonksiyon ve işlevleri dahilinde, sapma alanları oluşturma, yeni işlevler üstlenme, farklı zaman ve mekânları bir arada sunma, tarihi zaman ve mekânları arşivleme, geçiş ritüellerine olanak tanıma ve kültürel mekânlar yaratarak toplumsalı yansıtma potansiyeline sahip olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Heterotopya , Dijital Heterotopya , Foucault , Sosyal Medya , Instagram

From Foucault's Other Spaces to Digital Heterotopia: A Study on Instagram

Öz

This study aims to examine Instagram within the framework of Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia.Foucault's definition of heterotopia as a space positioned ‘between the real and the unreal’allows for the concept to be reinterpreted in different contexts. Social media environments,allow individuals to deviate from socialnorms in a way that is both connected to and independent of the real world. Therefore, these platformsfunction as spaces where heterotopia is produced. The studyargues that Instagram has the potential to create heterotopic spaces. To support this claim, purposive sampling criteriasampling was used; specific platform functions thought to reflect the principles of heterotopiaand accounts producing content related to these principleswere selected according to predefined criteria. These contentswere analysed based on Foucault's principles of heterotopia. The analysisconcluded that Instagram, within its functions and operations, has the potential to create spaces of deviation, take on new functions, bring together different times and spaces,archive historical times and spaces, enable rites of passage, andreflect society by creating cultural spaces.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Heterotopia , Digital Heterotopia , Foucault , Social Media , Instagram

Kaynakça

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