Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to reveal that micro public spheres are developing again in the city and its culture, which has been transformed within the framework of consumption practices in the 100th anniversary of the Republic. The consumption culture, which emerged with the effect of the Industrial Revolution and the social transformations that followed, erodes the foundations of the public sphere and publicity that exist in the city. As a result, the city turns into a large consumption space with shopping malls, chain cafes and restaurants. Starting from this transformation, the process of transforming the city into a consumption space, the public sphere and the connection with the city are explained in the study. Afterwards, in the 100th anniversary of the Republic, the subject of the city and public sphere is discussed within the framework of Türkiye. Then, information is given about the workshop/book cafes, which have recently emerged as places where informative and instructive seminars take place in today's cities, where desired books can be bought and read from their shelves, and where an intellectual sharing takes place in the public sense through various artistic practices. While the research focuses on the Instagram posts of Hane Kafe and Serüven Kitap Kafe, which are selected as samples, the research examines these posts in the context of consumption culture, public sphere and publicity themes with the method of content analysis. As a result of the examination, the sharing of various activities such as the authoring workshop, the literary event and the meeting of the writer and the reader of the Hane Kafe and Serüven Kitap Kafe the reveal that they operate within the framework of the literary public. For this reason, the activities, urban publicity and cultural relations of the city are important in the public space and publicity activities of the Hane Kafe and the Serüven Kitap Kafe.

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