Abstract:

The development of information and communication technologies changes the way people use the media. In this study, one of the groups that actively use new media technologies/mediates, the university students’ new media literature level was obtained. The study aims to determine the level of new media literacy of university students and to study the new media literacy according to some variables. The study was carried out by the scan method within the quantum research methods. The research work group was created with a simple unselective sampling. The findings of the study in this direction were obtained with the new media literacy scale that 309 volunteer university students responded. In the analysis of the study data, the average, the T test, the one-way varians analysis, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann Whitney U and Post-hoc. Tests have been used. The results of the study show that the new media literature levels of university students are high. The new media literature levels of male university students are significantly different from female students. According to the pre-graduate students of the faculty students, the new media literature levels vary significantly from the students who study the technical and health programs of the students studying in social programs. One of the findings that attracted attention in the study was the increase in the number of social networks and the increase in the level of new media reading.

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