Pre-Service Teachers’ Views about the Use of Social Networks

Year 2017, Volume: 18 Issue: 3, 61 - 70, 31.12.2017

Murat Yalman Bülent Başaran Selahattin Gonen

https://doi.org/10.17679/inuefd.354210

Abstract

The development
and spread of Internet technologies made an important breakthrough in
communication between people. Social networks are regarded as a virtual way of
social life created by people via the Internet. With the help of these
networks, individuals define themselves and communicate with other people from
the same cultural background thanks to the opportunities provided by the
Internet. It is important to reveal the rate of university students’ use of
social networks, which have the capability of guiding societies and their
future. Determining which social networks pre-service teachers prefer and how
often and why they use these social networks will help better-understand the
concept of social network. This study was carried out with 566 pre-service teachers
attending Ziya Gokalp Education Faculty at Dicle University. In the study, the
descriptive relational survey model was used. As a result of analysis of the
research data, it was found out that 73,50% of the students had social network
accounts. It was also revealed that the students with a social network account
established connection generally with their friends via their own accounts
(59,1%). In addition, the Fisher Exact test revealed that the preservice
teachers’ social network use time depended on the number of their friends they
communicated with via social network and that there were relationships between
the individuals the preservice teachers communicated with and the duration of
their being social network users and between the individuals they communicated
with and the duration of their being social network users.

Keywords

Internet, computer, social network, education

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