Media Literacy

Abstract

Abundance of information, ease of contemporary technologies, and cheapening of technology make it easier to access the media. The influence of the media in shaping behavior and shaping society in this way, brings the importance of drawing attention to the risks in the media. Addiction is one of the common topics in the media. Considering that what is widely revealed in the media will be normalized by society after a while, it is possible to say that media literacy plays an important role in recognizing these risks and minimizing them. The aim of this study is to determine the media consumption habits of the participants and the types of addiction they noticed in the media, and to determine their perceptions of an addiction they chose with the help of metaphors. The study was conducted with 176 students who took the Media Literacy course and voluntarily participated in the study. According to the findings, although the participants came across many types of addiction in media content, the addictions they noticed the most were technology-related addictions and substance addiction.