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In traditional and modern societies, the desire for women and men to have children is influenced by the increased individual responsibilities, the increased number of people living at the border of unemployment and poverty, the obligations of being parents, and the changes in disease and health. The advancement of medical and technological developments, the facility and rapid accessibility of information and communication networks, the possibility of applying to a number of measures, such as methods of birth control, has brought women and men to re-review the idea of being parents. However, increasing the professional accumulation in today’s societies, taking advantage of the educational opportunities, increasing employment in the working arms that will require mobile mobility has caused women to delay the idea of becoming mothers. But in recent years, the increased number of social media users and the summer world of television programs and information and communication technologies have invited women to adapt to maternity and especially to the changing forms of maternity. Thus, in the blogs created by social media networks on Instagram, women, from the moment they decide to be a mother, share with women a series of advice about what to eat and what to drink, from which site they can shop, on the one hand they gain weight while on the other hand they should pay attention to what to keep their forms, and they go into a race for the list of people who are very pleased, very followed. This situation makes it possible for some women to turn maternity into a desirable feeling, while some women turn into a completely unavoidable way of feeling and behavior. This study, in particular in today’s societies, has been aimed at addressing what women follow through social media networks on maternity, the main aspects of the sharing on this issue, how the concerns and problems related to child care and their problems will be solved and how they apply to the opinions of non-expert in this regard, how they share on social media networks and how they ignore the problems that may arise on child rights. For this reason, a general assessment of the sharing of Facebook and Instagram users about maternity has been made from the social media networks that are widely used. Those information communications technology networks have been attempted to move through the analysis of what mean and practice the maternity event is moved to the public area, and how the followers have developed an interpretative language against these sharing. In the study we have done, we have reached the fact that the social media, which can bring daily life practices to large audiences, as in other fields, also causes the transformation of maternity identity. However, it has also been observed that the sharing of their children has sometimes reached dimensions that can harm the rights of the children.

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Özet:

In traditional and modern societies, the desire of women and men to have children are affected by the increase in individual responsibilities; increase in the number of people who are unemployed and living at the the threshold of poverty; liabilities related to parenthood; changes in diseases-health conditions. The prominence of medical and technological developments, easy and quick access to information-communication networks, the possibility to use certain measures such as birth control methods have caused women and men to reconsider their idea to become parents. In addition to this, women in today’s societies particularly postpone their ideas for motherhood in order to enhance their professional capacities, to benefit from educational facilities, to be employed in jobs that require mobility. However, the increase in the number of social media users in the recent years and the world of informationcommunication technologies presented by television programmes encourage women to motherhood, and especially to adapt to the changing forms of motherhood. That is, in certain blogs created on Instagram, one of the social media networks, women share their ideas on various issues like what the expectant mothers should eat and drink; recommendations about the shopping places; the things that they can do to keep their form, and they almost compete with each other to receive most of the “likes” and to have most of the followers. While this situation makes motherhood a desired feeling for some women, it also makes it turn into a feeling and behavior that should be avoided. This study through discourse analysis method examines what women in today’s societies follow on social media networks related to motherhood; the prominent aspects of the posts shared within this context; how they consult non-expert people to solve their anxieties and problems related to childcare; how they ignore the problems that may occur about children’s rights in relation to the post they share on social media networks. For this purpose, a general assessment has been made on the posts about motherhood shared by the users on Facebook and Instagram, two of the mostly used social media networks. Based on these information-communication networks, the meanings and practices that brought motherhood to public sphere, and the interpretive language developed by the followers of these posts are analyzed and examined. In this study, we find that the social media, that can convey the daily life practices to a great number of people, similarly causes a transformation in the identity motherhood. In addition to this, it is also observed that the posts that they share about their children sometimes reach a point that might endanger children’s rights.