Üniversite Öğrencilerinin İletişimde ve Günlük Hayatta Sosyal Medya Kullanım Alışkanlıkları: Kadir Has Üniversitesi Örneği

Abstract

Bu tez çalışmasında Kadir Has Üniversitesi öğrencilerinin sosyal medyayı kullanma alışkanlıkları araştırılmıştır. Bu amaçla Kadir Has Üniversitesi öğrencilerine anket uygulanarak SPSS 20 programında değerlendirilmiştir. Ankete katılanların çoğunluğunun sosyal medya ile yoğun ilgili ve aktif kullanan kişiler olduğu ve çoğunluğunun facebook sosyal ağını diğer sosyal ağlara göre fazla takip ettiği belirlenmiştir.

Information technologies create opportunities for people where they can share their thoughts, ideas, opinions and works and a media environment based on sharing and discussion. This virtual environment is named as social media and important with respect to gathering masses and people and increasing the interaction between them as well as being user-based. Srudies show that people spend more time in this virtual reality, try to meet their real life requirements in this virtual reality and also create a new world for them and live in this virtual reality. Sometimes, it can be seen that the border between the virtual world and the real world becomes apparent. Social network users may find friends, share their social and political thoughts with the others and even can take serious decisions such us marriage. Social media shows a rapid rise among young people in particular in terms of use value and becomes opponent of today's traditional media on the other hand and even becomes threatening time to time. Social networks with the features of Web 2.0 such us Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, Youtube are among the most visited websites. In this thesis study, Kadir Has University students' social media using habits are investigated. For this purpose, a survey was applied to students of Kadir Has University and the data was evaluated by SPSS 20 software. It was determined that majority of respondents are people prefer Facebook rather than the other social networks.