Abstract:

The journey to the cultural memory of a city begins with interpreting the traces, speeches, indicators that people in that city leave on the places and objects. The individual, by understanding the world in which he lives, lives in a state of communication and interaction in a particular place, leaving traces to objects, hiding his individual and cultural past in the depths of his memory. The past, as an object, is lived in the box, in the albums, in the most valuable corners of the house; in the architecture, as an expression of history, art, aesthetics and culture; in the cutting of a traditional clothing, in the motivation, in the taste of a meal, in the making of a meal. Life occurs by the translation of centuries-based cultural codes to the memories of future generations, orally, or in writing. Thus, the space, one of the most important translators of cultural codes, is a very meaningful and functional area where the “habited place” is created, created, displayed, and cultural memory based on centuries. Especially with the development of technology and transportation possibilities, the place becomes a "visual image" where memory is revived, reminded and transmitted in the new cultural era. Under the visibility of the place there are traces of the deep and symbolic meanings of culture, lifestyle, aesthetic creativity, history, socio-economic conditions, ecological philosophy. In architecture, the influence of the oral tradition, the ritual behavior of the new era, cultural actors, the aesthetic and political approaches in the transportation is seen in the food and drinking spaces. Under the visibility of hand-art and historical, mythological heroes in the form of biblical, keyword and decorative objects, functional approaches such as healing, keeping memory and memory alive, reflecting identity consciousness, revitalizing, promoting the belonging culture come to the forefront. Thus, each city, in addition to being a memory place with its cultural elements, is brought into the areas where the new speeches of cultural tourism, industry and economy are created and marketed. As a multi-layer translator of meaning, the forms of promotion and transmission in the oral, written and electronic cultural environment of the place have changed shape and context, and traveling from travel to travel programs and "blogs" in the process of transformation has become the most important means of recognizing, understanding, and promoting a place. In this study, the "travel blogs" which were created specifically on the basis of web 2.0 applications and became a new "cultural memory space" and compared the content of the ten Turkish travel blogs that were followed, the most popular in the internet environment. The aim of the study is "How the contents about the city memory are created in the travel "blogs", which are the new place of memory? How is the city memory transmitted by the virtual trips called "bloggers" in the "blogs" with transportation, architectural, historical and religious spaces, food and drinking, entertainment spaces and cultural images created here in the context of cultural tourism, industry and economy?" Looking for the answers to your questions. The obtained data will be functionally studied in the context of image creation, translation of meaning, new industrial functions in which tradition is connected to cultural transformation, new ritual patterns of cultural tourism and promotion.

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