A RESEARCH ON THE SECONDARYSCHOOL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF PRIVACY ON SOCIAL NETWORK
ORTAÖĞRETİM ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN SOSYAL MEDYADAKİ MAHREMİYET ALGILARI ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME

Author : Muammer HARDAL
Number of pages : 611-623

Abstract

Along with the developing technologies, communication technology has made a great progress as well. Especially, young ones follow the progress in communication technology closely. As a product of this technology, social network is spread among the young ones day by day. This brings some problems. Social network users’ conceptions of privacy and private area turn out to be a problematic situation. The aim of this study is to analyze the conception of privacy on social network in various demographic variables. This study also aims to analyze students’ social network usage status, their intended use and determine whether they care about the privacy issues. In order to reach these aims, a 20-questions survey is prepared and it is issued to 181 students from 4 high schools (Ertuğrul Gazi, Nuri Erbak and Ulubatlı Hasan Anatolian High Schools and Cem Sultan Anatolian İmam Hatip High School). The collected data is analyzed in SPSS software package and frequency distributions and percentages are identified. According to the acquired data, the results point that most of the students that were participated in the survey use the social network actively and they are sensitive about the privacy issues when they use it. It is also found that although these students are sensitive about the privacy issues of others, they do not show this sensitivity to their acquaintances on social network and they do not have a private sphere limit for them. It must be stated that, privacy and private sphere are not only present in real life; it must be preserved and treated carefully also in the cyber world.

Keywords

Social Network, Privacy, Internet, Secondary School Students, Bursa.

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