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Social Network Usage

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The purpose of this study is to overview the general use of social net-work sites (SNs) in Turkey in higher education students, and to examine how this usage relates positively and negatively to their work, study, social life, cognitive development, social development, physical development and sense of security. The study is designed with a descriptive approach to display current situation of SNs usage in Turkey. The data is collected through an online survey. The results highlighted that “gaining up-to date information” and “learning new information and knowledge” are the most positive ways to organize their work, study and social life in participants’ SNs usage. It is also remarkable that the average scores for positive aspects of SNs have on students’ lives, is higher than the negative aspects that SNs have, according to the opinion of the students. But, it is clear that results of negative effects showed that “increasing privacy concerns” is the most important security factor.

Keywords

  • Social network
  • Usage
  • Internet activities
  • Positive way
  • Negative effect
  • Higher education

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    Yasemin Koçak Usluel

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  1. Curtin University, Perth, West Australia, Australia

    Tomayess Issa

  2. Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Isaias

  3. Dept. of Media, Communication & Org., University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Piet Kommers

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Usluel, Y.K. (2016). Social Network Usage. In: Issa, T., Isaias, P., Kommers, P. (eds) Social Networking and Education. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17716-8_13

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