Sibernetik Mekanda “Hakikatimsi” Kavuşma: Sanal Kızıyla Buluşan Güney Koreli Anne Örneği

In the post-truth period, which gained the fame of being an age in which “fake” undermines “truth”, the trues supported by emotions, not proven by facts, have increased; “objective facts” have been replaced by “persuasive thoughts”. In the study, the meeting of South Korean mother who lost daughter with cancer in 2016 and her daughter in cybernetic space after four years as an event will be examined. In this case, one of the parties is artificial, virtual, human production, but the other side is completely real. The event, which depicts the cybernetic environment and is reported in the media with the title of “reunification” proves the assumption that the “fake” in the “post-truth” age also generates intimate feelings and that holding onto lies is easier than accepting the truth. As a matter of fact, although the meeting is an unrealistic event, the mother’s feelings for the virtual is real when she sees the daughter “produced” by technology, her feeling is not the happiness, serenity, contrarily the pain of losing again. In this study, the virtual environment built by technology stands out as a medium where pain is reproduced rather than utilitarian.