Özet:

Social media disidentifies individuals and has made it easier for them to perform actions in the virtual environment that they would not dare to do in the real world. Some of these actions are the lynching culture created by cyberbullying, trolling and intense lynching attempts, which can be considered as the big problems of social media. These actions, which reveal the dark side of social media, can be brought about serious problems in both the virtual and real world. As these and similar actions have become popular on social media and their negative consequences have clearly been seen, this dark side of social media is also have started to be the subject of movies. It is important to examine how various events are handled in films, since films reflect society in one way and act as a mediator in individuals' perception of social problems. In this study; it is aimed to examine how the culture of cyberbullying, trolling and lynching is reflected in the cinema through the movie The Hater. For this purpose, the movie was analyzed using document analysis and descriptive analysis methods. As a result of the examination, the reasons of the character's realizing cyberbullying, the cyberbullying and trolling characters which he showed, and the components that cause the lynching culture have been determined. Determining that the film had handed that the events that cause general bullying in a way that triggers cyberbullying, and social problems are reflected in a way that facilitates the formation of trolling and lynching culture, is among the important results of the study.

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