Virtual communities and postmodern tribalism: İmam hatipler kapatılsın Facebook group example

When the related literature is researched, virtual communities seem as a place where activities such as spending leisure time, entertainment and chatting take places with the influence of developing technology. This definition is called postmodern communities without others. The aim of this research is to understand whether or not virtual communities are able to prepare place for otherization of group because of their certain characteristics. In accordance with this purpose, the virtual community called "İmam Hatipler Kapatılsın", that defines themselves as a group in which secular people come together, was the subject of examination in order to determine what forms of marginalizations exist within this group. In the analysis of the data, Nvivo 11 computer software was used. 49035 comments and submissions in the group were analyzed by content analysis method. It has been observed that members of the virtual community "Imam Hatipler Kapatılsın "marginalize conservative people at the representation of Imam Hatips which they set as theopposing group and these modes of marginalization constitutes a whole in seven categories. Keywords: Virtual communities, tribalism, othering, postmodernism