Abstract:

This article will first translate the "Social Construction of Reality" approach by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, the theoretical background of the study. In the second part, reality production in social media will be assessed in the framework of the crystallization model. The study is conducting a theoretical examination with the scan method of literature. The purpose of this study is to explain that social media plays an active role in the construction of social reality with a crystallization model. According to this theoretical model revealed by Wohn and Bowe, information is similar to small nuclei. Similar attitudes can become objective realities by attaching to this core. Indeed, the fact that information in social media comes from multiple sources, the creation of the individual’s social network from other networks similar to its own network strengthens similar attitudes attached to the core and affects the subjective realities. In other words, individuals who use social media in the crystallization model claim that they have made their subjective realities symbolic while spreading their social media functions such as comment, like, retweet, and that these symbolic realities can be crystallized into objective realities. When scanning national literature, there is no study that is addressed with the crystallization model. Therefore, this theoretical analysis aims to create a framework and contribute to future research on reality production on social media.

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