Relation of modern Turkish poem with new tools: The sample of social media

Throughout history,art has always been in a change in relation with the mentality and the tools of the age. Poem, which is the oldest branch of art, has always existed in different forms with the tools of the ages. Poem was born with humanity and has become an important factor that affects both personal and social processes. Today, technological advancement happens in such a speed that we can not even compare it with that of the past.Certainly,that improvement affects every part of life. It can be said that we are faced with a new human type and his different activities. In the first part of that work (which is composed of three main parts) titled Digital Age and Social Media, considering those changes mentioned above, the terms digital age, which is one of the most used names to describe that age, and social media, which is the area where tools of that age have advanced most, are analysed in terms of their conceptual frames and tools. In the second part,the influence of the instruments ,which are the topic of the thesis, on poem is discussed under the title of Historical Advancement of Poem and Transformation of Modern Turkish Poem . Last of all, by quoting poem examples from most popular social media tools, facebook and twitter, the change in Turkish poem's quality, technique and content are analysed to make generalizations.The quality, technique and concerns of the poem are re-interpreted.