Abstract
SOCIAL MEDIA AND INSTAGRAM MOTHERS IN THE CONTEXT OF SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY
Information and communication technologies that have become increasingly common in the world we live in have taken the place of traditional media. Thus, in our day, information transfer and sharing process is skipping the dimension. Social media transforms individuals into voluntary participants in surveillance, while obliging their users to share. People often share their privacy in the social media while peeping in their homes. This brings to mind the surveillance society. Surveillance society confronts with the concept of panoptikon. This concept, which means prison surveillance, evolves as an observer of the individual to social media. Surveillance tools are used as a means of entertainment when privacy is lost in social media. So that the subject becomes the object of surveillance. Instagram is one of the ways that women, especially those who are first mothers, exist in the virtual world. Virtualized mothers need to record every minute of the child and share it with others. Child of mother’s popularity through her identity and privacy, and consequently her business income, leads to new ethical debates. This study will examine instagram mothers in the context of identity and privacy in the surveillance society. Aim of this study, to bring a critical perspective to the concept of motherhood transformed by social media.
Keywords
Surveillance society, social media, Instagram mother
