GENÇLERDE MEDYA BAĞIMLILIĞI

Humanity went through mental change and transformation with every new invention. Invention of writing, printing, transition to electric and electronic period caused important changes in development of humanity. Ong describes transition of humanity to electric and electronic culture period as secondary verbal culture period. In this period which is mediated with technology, humans care about live and participatory verbal narration just like they did in primary verbal culture period and use phrases. Today especially among young people, new communication environments and new communication tools which are mediated with technology, (we can simply describe this as media) took the place of face to face communication. However it is noticed in recent years that youth which grew up with electric and electronic culture have difficulties in expressing themselves by written and verbal means in education environment. Besides, distractibility and fatigue is observed among young people. Although there are various reasons for these, it is directly expressed by the young people that the reason for the fatigue observed in them is playing computer games throughout the night at a half asleep half awake state and feeling the necessity to answer the incoming messages. The aim of this study is to raise awareness about problems that are observed among young people while they are trying to express themselves: 1) Inability to find the suitable words, 2) Inability to form a proper sentence, 3) Answering to everything such as “Exactly”. 4) Using spoken language while writing. In the study, the problems observed in media dependent young people are examined in 3 main groups. 1) Memory problem, 2) Language problem, 3) Problem of establishing face to face communication. In the study, in depth interview technique was applied to university students of ages between 18 and 21 who were selected by random sampling method.