Sosyal Medyanın Bilgi Edinme ve Kişisel Gelişim Sürecine Katkısı ve Lise Öğrencileri Üzerine Bir Alan Çalışması

Abstract

The contribution of social media on obtaining information and self-improvement, and an fieldwork on high-school students The question if social media contributes to the personal improvement and knowledge of youngsters is answered with the reality that social media determines the consuming habits, life styles, views on social life, points the social political agenda of youngsters, and makes up and forms the updated agenda of their acquaintances and contemporaries. Accordingly, the questions if young people take Facebook as an entertaining phenomenon only or beyond this fact if they obtain any kind of information and knowledge from it are also seeking answer. The study targets to determine how high-school youngsters at the age range through to the college preparation gather data from Facebook of the social atmosphere as well as in what process duration they gather this data, what that data contains, which also gives ideas about their pursuits, in what duration they obtain this data, how they reflect the data in their personal improvement, and what effect Facebook has on their life cycles. Concordantly, in order to represent the high-school students in Istanbul in general, a field research has been realized with the participation of 1498 students through Quantative Research Method and “Simple Coincidental” exemplification by means of a prepared questionnaire (Public Survey) of fill-it-in yourself style.