AESTHETIZED TRAGEDY OR ANGEL WING ILLUSTRATIONS

The main purpose of this research is shaped by the argument that in social tragic events, the representations of tragedy encountered in the media are aestheticized and transformed into consumer goods. The tragic photograph of a father who did not let go of his daughter's hand under the rubble, which emerged especially after the earthquake disaster in our country, turned into a commodity produced and consumed both in traditional media and social media, determined the direction of the research. In the literature review, similar reflexes were found not only in natural disasters but also in dramatic images created by war and forced migration, which were chosen as samples, and were evaluated within the scope of the research. In the method of the research, the concept of tragedy is discussed through the change of reality as hyperreal in the world that has turned into a simulation universe, with a literature review. Based on Baudrillards' simulation theory, the meaning created by the transformation of tragedy into hyperreal tragedy has been tried to be interpreted. In the section of the study, From Traditional Tragedy to Tragedy in Everyday Language, the historical origin and general lines of the concept of tragedy have been tried to be explained through examples. The similarities and differences between the meaning of the historical origin of the tragedy and the definition of the concept of tragedy used in the everyday language of the modern world are mentioned. In the section of Tragedy as a Simulacrum, the subject is the reproduction of the tragedy with illustrations and pictures by individual users, not only in conventional media, but also in social media. In the research, the tragic images of war, forced migration and earthquake, which cause social tragedies, were examined through selected visual examples of the way artists and social media users were handled. Based on these visual examples, the distortion and abuse of the concept of tragedy has been tried to be explained.