Project title |
New Media and Children: Internet Content Preferences of Primary School Children in Turkey
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Country or countries |
Turkey (TR)
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Language(s) of report |
English
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Funder of research |
Public funding
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Date of fieldwork |
2010
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Main research focus |
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Target group studied |
Children
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Description of studied group |
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Age of children studied |
6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13
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Methodology |
Quantitative
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Size of sample |
366 respondents (162 females and 288 males /234 of them were 6- 9 years of old, 236 of them were in the age group of 10-13 years old)
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If survey, scope of sample |
Representative on a subgroup
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| Topics covered |
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Access and use; Activities
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| Findings |
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• 61.7% of the children have internet access and also use the internet from their friends’ connection (37.5%), internet café (30.7%), school (29.7%), and library (2.1%); 47.2 use the internet every day and 31% use the internet 2-3 days a week.
• The internet use purposes of the children are identified as playing games (49.1%), communicating with friends (26%), and doing homework (6%).
• For the games, the children mostly prefer Ben 10 (43.8%) and Bakugan (35.1).
• The social networking sites preferred by them are identified as Facebook (76.2%), Twitter (10.7%) and Flickr (5.4%).
• 80.4% of the children encounter websites with pornographic, sexual, violent or harmful content.
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| Further information |
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Relevant publications |
Atici, B., & Bati, U. (2010). New Media and Children: Internet Content Preferences of Primary School Children in Turkey. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 5(4).
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Report accessibility |
Journal article
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URL of report |
http://ehis.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer...
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Dataset publicly available |
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Contact details of investigator |
Bunyamin Atici (Educational Sciences, Fırat University, Elazığ /Turkey - batici@firat.edu.tr)
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