Özet:

Communication is a necessary phenomenon that the person can maintain its existence, that the continuity of society is ensured for the person to be able to meet his needs in every sense. In the course of the historical process, the various technological tools developed in the face-to-face communication as well as the communication styles mediated by technology have been developed to the mass communication. Mobile phones that come to the forefront of mass communications also have a very important place today. Smart phones, which quickly entered among the indispensables of human life, have begun to reach levels that can be called addiction, as well as alcohol, tobacco, and drug addictions. This addiction can cause many adverse effects, especially on the body function or mental structures of the young generation. The purpose of this research is to identify whether the smartphone addiction, one of the lower stages of technology addiction, differs by various variables on university students. The research work group 2016-2017 Education -Teaching year spring period in Burdur or MAKU Education Faculty is still studying in the bachelor's 1st class level of 200 students. In the analysis of the data, the SPSS-22 statistical package program was used. The results of the statistical analysis found a significant difference in student’s smartphone addiction according to the academic success variable. However, the gender, age, section, the average monthly income of the family, the average monthly spending, the price of the smartphone it uses, the average monthly telephone spending, the vacation activities have not found any significant differences according to the variants.