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- Title
The Relationship Between Undergraduates' View on Internet Censorship, and Their Media Literacy Level.
- Authors
ÖZÇINAR, Hüseyin; TANYERİ, Tayfun
- Abstract
Rapid development of Internet and its convergence with mobile communications has enabled greater access to information and communication resources and provided a medium of expression. But this has also increased the concerns on offensive and harmful content on Internet. In this context, media literacy education provides children and young adults with the opportunity of developing their skills more, instead of limiting their access to information and undermining their intellectual development. The aim of this study is to determine young adults' (students in higher education) opinions about censorship and examine the relationship between students' opinions on censorship and their media literacy level. Participants of this study were undergraduate students of an education faculty of middle sized, rural Turkish university. In order to collect data about participants' demographic information and views toward Internet censorship a data collection tool was developed by researchers. To investigate participants' levels of media literacy, the media literacy scale which was developed by Karaman and Karataş (2009) was used. Research findings showed that censorship is less supported among the students who spend more time on the Internet and who have high media literacy levels. However, students' support for censorship, assuming that other users may be affected negatively, shows that in this kind of studies, it would be more effective to design research by considering third person effect.
- Subjects
INTERNET in education; EDUCATIONAL technology research; HIGHER education research
- Publication
Usak University Journal of Social Sciences / Uşak Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2016, Vol 9, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
1308-738X
- Publication type
Article