An analysis of online privacy concerns of teacher candidates

Year 2019, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 15 - 25, 01.12.2019

Agâh Tuğrul Korucu , Şerife Gürkez

https://doi.org/10.17275/per.19.9.6.2

Cited By: 3

Abstract

Examining
the online privacy concerns of our prospective teachers who will raise our
future generations is important in terms of determining and increasing the
awareness levels of prospective teachers of the digital world and for the
development of a conscious generation having this awareness while raising
students. The definition of cyber space or virtual environments has further
expanded; digital business applications, online services, online training
systems, e-commerce sites, social media sites, and surely multiplayer video
games have also been included in the definition. The definition of these
digital spaces as virtual spaces creates questions as to how individuals exist
in these places and how they travel in these places. This study, whose aim is to
analyze online confidentiality concerns of prospective teachers in terms of
various variables, consists of 92 teacher candidates who were studying in
Necmettin Erbakan University of Konya in 2018-2019 academic year. In this
study, where quantitative research was adopted, surveying model was used as a
research method. The data collection tool was “The Online Privacy Concern Scale
(OPCS)” developed. Descriptive statistics, Independent samples t-test and
one-way analysis of variance were used during the analysis. It is found out
that online privacy concerns of teacher candidates differ significantly in
terms of mobile device usage times and classes. However there was no
significant difference in online privacy concerns in terms of information and
communication technologies usage levels, weekly Internet usage times, gender,
department, age and mobile usage level. 

Keywords

online privacy, teacher candidates, anxiety, Internet

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