Prosumer and the fact of participation at new media: The concept of interaction at Ekşi Sözlük and The Talk Show of Okan Bayülgen

The increase of usage and access opportunities of new media with its features such as digitalisation, interactionism, participation and user differentiable content production caused the movement of daily life practices toward cyber space. This situation also affected the position of audiences before media texts and their watching habits. The process of transformation from audience to user generated by this impact also caused the development of watching practices concurrently. The participatory, interactionist and user differentiable content production features of new media increase the pleasure in watching activities and encourage participation in a circular way. The existing participation is also very important as a feedback aimed at television texts at the same time. In this thesis, this transformation process and concurrent watching practices are analysed by the kind of talk show which has participatory and interactionist structural features. In this context, the fact of participation is anlysed with the programs of Muhallebi Kralı and Medya Kralı presented by Okan Bayülgen and the user differentiable contents appear in Eksi Sözlük. Key Words: Ekşi Sözlük, Social Media, Okan Bayulgen, Talk Show, Prosumer, Participation