‘DESTRUCTIVE GEMEINSCHAFT’ ON INTERNET: THE COLONEL ÇİÇEK AFFAIR AT THE READER DISCUSSIONS

The conception of ‘destructive gemeinschaft’ (community), which richard sennett used to determine ‘the fall of public man’, expresses to apply stiffness and excluding at the expense of feeling belong to a community. according to sennett, today the people who left public sphere, represents their self by the collective identity of communities based on conflict. similar opposite irrational public discussions about captain dreyfus case, which sennett analise to express his conception, has experienced about the colonel dursun çiçek affair which impressed turkey’s agenda. in this study, the reader discussions about the colonel çiçek news on internet, emphasized the potential of constructing new public sphere, has examined according to the conseption of ‘destructive gemeinschaft’.