Özet:

In Wuhan, China's Hubei state, the virus, which appeared in the last months of 2019, called covid-19, has affected the world. Due to the virus, which is highly infectious from humans to humans, people around the world have decreased social activities have entered a new lifestyle where they are closed into their homes. With this new order, the use of technology has been activated to satisfy the desire for socialization that exists as a necessity for human life. In the pandemic period, video calls were more used to get rid of the loneliness and unity created by social isolation, the use of social media tools and the increased time of watching films/series on new media platforms or on television. The impact of this great social life change on the popular culture has also been inevitable. The series on television, which is the most important means of spread of popular culture in Turkey, have continued to be drawn with mobile phone cameras, despite the stop of the set work. The first example of such series in Turkey was a series called "Jet Societe", which was prepared to be broadcast by making some changes to the scenario in order to complete the remaining half footage. But with the realization that the isolation process caused by the pandemic will be extended, the next episode has come to history as the first series that players take with their own cell phone cameras. The main purpose of this research is to reveal how the media that produces popular cultural products performs the function of transmission of information through defense mechanisms that arise in unpredictable cases such as pandemic. This research is believed to contribute to literature in terms of the defence mechanisms arising during a health-related crisis, and in terms of how the media reflects the reflections of this crisis in the popular culture. However, in a pandemic process with significant results, it is believed that it would be appropriate to investigate the function of providing information by mass communications. In this study, the series "Jet Society" has studied the popular cultural reflections of the covid-19 pandemic caused by the new type of coronavirus by indicative methods in the framework of defense mechanisms. In the series, information and warnings were made through dialogues, the audience was asked to identify with the characters and give the message that they were not alone in this process. In the series, it has been shown that each character uses a different or similar defense mechanism to overcome the crisis that occurs with the epidemic. In the context of these defence mechanisms, the characters also communicated information about Covid-19 to the audience, expressed the mistakes made, and gave messages in order to be more hopeful and quiet. In doing so, it also seems that popular cultural products are benefited by the advantage of being simple and understandable. The defense mechanisms of the series characters have been observed in the context of representations of human behavior developed in the first period in Turkey.

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