Representation of happiness and unhappiness in the social media platform instagram

The concept of happiness begun to appear in human thought in the very beginnig of history. It was mentioned in great philosophers ideas like Socrates, Aristo and St. Augustine. In the course of time, the concept of happiness analized by philosophy, sociology and psychology fields. They produced great amount of thesises and thoughts from the concept of happiness and this very important feeling to humans is still a research subject. The converse of happiness, sadness, is also a research subject in these fields and an important subject in philosophers ideas. This research aims to reveal a concept that has been referred to years ago in an another important research field which is social media and we aim to understand this concept in todays internet society by analizing the photograps on one of the most popular social media platforms, Instagram. By doing this analize, we aim to reveal the representation of happiness and sadness on new media and answer the question of "How did new media and social media platforms changed our concept of happiness and sadness?". By answering this question, we aim to reveal the concept of happiness and sadness in this new culture. We intend to relate the concept of happiness and sadness with generations by adressing technologic developments and generations who grew up with these developments so we can explain the relationship between the concept of happiness and sadness with age, generations and technologic developments.