Trolling and photograph on social media in Turkey

Communication has gained a virtual and visual dimension with social media and has become a visual narrative language. In this study, social media, which is the field of activity of the trolls, is discussed with technical and cultural components. Photography has created a creative, aesthetic and critical communication language in social media. Photography has become a rich material space for trolls who develop independent expression forms by using the advantage of the anonymity offered by virtual space. Social media in Turkey, trolling on social media and using the photograph in trolling are the basis of the study. The entertaining trolls (kudos/classical trolls) which create new forms of expression were questioned in terms of creative visual communication, humor and social criticism in social media. Therefore, the keywords troll, meme, and caps were scanned on Instagram on social media. The twenty troll accounts using the photograph in their production and the examples of photographic trolling were analyzed. The data obtained in the examinations were classified in relation to politics, art, sports, sexuality, cultural and historical categories. It was seen that the photograph lost some of its qualities and also gained new ones in the examples from the world and Turkey in these categories. It was determined that the photographic trolling examples, which combined photograph and text, are in relation to the order of the day. In consequence, entertainment trolls are the engineers of the day and they are observers who know well the terms of technology and computer. Using the photograph in trolling which configure the agenda provides the continuity of photograph and at the same time develops, converts and enrichs the digital language. In addition, it has been seen that new indicators of the culture of a period emerged and our context was also an area of investigation while analyzing this period as of our thesis. Keywords: social media, trolling, photograph, meme, caps