Özet:

While individuals' identities developed in the context of their social environment and society in the past, today social media is also included in this sphere of influence. Many people can interact and follow various accounts on social media platforms that individuals enter through the internet in parallel with their real lives. At the same time, these environments play an important role in the self-reflection and creation of users. The structure of the platforms that accompany the place and time of individuals born in the middle of the social media age is one of the prominent factors in the development of identity. Therefore, in addition to the identities we assume in our physical life, a new type of identity that we construct with social media and which we can call digital identity emerges. In this study, it will be examined that young people between the ages of 18-24, who are users of Instagram, one of the social media platforms, create their digital identities by sharing cultural indicators on this platform. For this purpose, data were collected in line with the aims of the study by conducting a survey to the group determined as the sample. This study was created from the doctoral thesis titled “Reproduction of the Identities of Young People That Using Social Media: Construction of Digital Identity” prepared by Sertaç KAYA in 2021 and supervised by Asst. Prof. Seçil ÖZAY.

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