Özet:

Nowadays, the point of technological aspects that we have reached becomes using mass media tools thus the media without the limits of time and space. Mobilization and smart technologies that emerged depending on the development of new communication technologies give a chance to follow the media and increased the speed of following the media as well as communication. Especially children from an early age have been having these kinds of advanced technological tools and therefore, they are exposed to the effects of new media. In order to become awareness against media and to be protected from negative effects of mass media tools, being media literacy for children is seen to be essential. In the study, it was attempted to identify in what ways the perception of students are affected by this course by considering their approach to media especially to television, how they evaluate the contents and if they are aware of its negative effects. Within the scope of the survey, a questionnaire was made to 258 students who were chosen coincidentally from two classes of the schools in Ankara named 75.century Primary School (Mamak), Gülhane Primary School (Keçiören), Gülen Muharrem Pakoğlu Primary School (Çankaya), İhsan Sungu Primary School (Altındağ) and Yeşilevler Primary School (Yenimahalle). As a result of the study, it was determined that media literacy course is a beneficial and essential lesson for evaluation of content of Internet Media, and it was seen that the students gained a critical viewpoint against new media and its content.