Genç Nesilde Ötekileştirmenin Dijital Yüzü: Nezaket Dışı Siyasal Değer Yüklü Paylaşımlar ve Kutuplaşma

Günümüzde dijital sosyal paylaşım ortamlarının popülaritesindeki artışla birlikte, bireylerin sosyal ve siyasal konularda çevrimiçi tartışmalarda ya da paylaşımlarda bulunma potansiyeli de hızla artmıştır. Ancak, modern çevrimiçi bilgi ortamları siyasal değer yüklü gelişigüzel yapılan paylaşımlardan kaynaklanan anlaşmazlıklarla doludur. Bu süreçte karşımıza çıkan kışkırtıcı, saldırgan, ötekileştirici nezaket dışı siyasal değer yüklü paylaşımların yayılması meselesi ve bunun genç bireyler arasındaki çevrimiçi ve çevrimdışı ilişkilere yansıması araştırmanın temel dinamiğini oluşturmaktadır. Nitekim, araştırmada yükseköğretim düzeyinde okuyan ağ kuşağı gençliğinin dijital sosyal ağlardaki çoğu zaman nezaket sınırlarının ötesine geçen siyasal değer yüklü paylaşımlarının karşı grup yabancılaştırmasına ve dolayısıyla ötekileştirme sürecine ya da genel bir toplumsal-siyasal kutuplaşma ikliminin üretilmesine (veya yeniden-üretilmesine) ne derece etki ettiğinin irdelenmesi hedeflenmiştir. Bu çerçevede, nicel ve nitel yöntemler aracılığıyla ampirik temelli veriler ortaya konularak, açıklayıcı, betimleyici ve yorumlayıcı bir analiz gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bulgulara göre, dijital sosyal ağlardaki nezaket dışı siyasal değer yüklü paylaşımlar ve yorumlar kişilerarası (çevrimiçi ve çevrimdışı) gündelik ilişkileri doğrudan etkilemekte ve ötekileştirme pratiklerine neden olmaktadır. Siyasal değer yüklü paylaşımlar nezaket dışı bir hal aldığında çatışmanın, gerilimin ve kutuplaşmanın kaynağı haline gelebilmektedir. Kişiler siyasal içerikli konularda çatıştıklarında ve nezaket dışı söylemlere maruz kaldıklarında çoğu zaman farklı fikirlerin varlığına vakıf olmaktan ziyade kendi görüşlerini doğrulayıcı fikirlere yönelmekte ve daha aşırı veya partizan bir tutuma sahip olabilmektedirler. Bu aşırı görüş ya da tutumlar ise çatışma ve kutuplaşmayı ortaya çıkarmakta veya var olan kutuplaşmayı daha fazla körükleyerek yeniden üretmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Genç Nesil, Dijital Sosyal Ağlar, Siyasal Değer Yüklü Paylaşımlar ve Yorumlar, Nezaketsizlik, Ötekileştirme, Kutuplaşma

Young Genaration and The Digital Face of Othering: Uncivil Politically Value-laden Posts and Polarization

Today, with the increase in the popularity of digital social media environments, the potential for individuals to participate in online social and political discussions has also increased rapidly. However, modern online information environments are filled with disagreements arising from arbitrarily shared politically value-laden posts. The fundamental dynamic of the research is the question of dissemination of politically value-laden posts which are mostly uncivil such as provocative, aggressive, insulting, libelous comments or discourses that have othering effect and its reflection on online and offline daily relationships among younger individuals. Indeed, it has been aimed at examining the degree to which politically value-laden online posts of youths, studying at tertiary level, often that go beyond the limits of civil comments or discourses contributes to counter-party alienation and to otherizing process or to the production (or reproduction) of a general social-political polarization climate. In this framework, an explanatory, descriptive and interpretive analysis was carried out by presenting field data collected through quantitative and qualitative methods. Research findings show that uncivil politically value-laden posts through digital social networks directly affects the (online and offline) everyday relationships of individuals and leads to the practice of othering. When politically value-laden posts become uncivil, these can become a source of tension and polarity. When people are confronted with politically motivated conflicts and when they are exposed to uncivil comments or discourses, they are often more likely to consider the ideas that confirm their own views, rather than to accept the existence of different ideas, and have a more extreme or partisan attitude. These extreme views and attitudes lead to conflict and polarization or reproduce the existing polarization more and more.

Keywords:

Young Generation, Dijital Social Networks, Politically Value-laden Posts and Comments, Incivility, Othering, Polarization,

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