Misuse of ICTs among Turkish children and youth: A study on newspaper reports

Authors

  • İbrahim Tanrıkulu Middle East Technical University
  • Sadegül Akbaba Altun Başkent University
  • Özgür Erdur Baker Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences
  • Oya Yerin Güneri Middle East Technical University

Keywords:

ICT misuse, Children and youth, Newspaper reports, Demographics, Impacts

Abstract

This study investigated the misuse of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) among children and youth. The data source was newspaper reports obtained from three Turkish daily newspapers, between January 2006 and December 2012. In that seven years period, a total of 66 ICT misuse incidents were reported in the selected newspapers. Document analysis was performed on the newspaper reports. Themes and codes were entered as variables to manage the data quantitatively. Results revealed that ICT misuse was most commonly conducted through cell phones, social networking sites, instant messaging and web pages. Young people’s involvement of ICT misuse had three forms; from young perpetrator/s to the young victim/s, from young perpetrator/s to adult victim/s and from adult perpetrator/s to young victim/s. ICTs were commonly misused for sexual abuse, insulting or taking revenge. While perpetrators were mostly males whose ages ranged between 14 and 52, a great majority of ICT misuse victims were females, with an age range from 8 to 46. Negative psychological and physiological impacts were reported by the victims.

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Author Biographies

İbrahim Tanrıkulu, Middle East Technical University

Ph.D., Candidate, Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences

Sadegül Akbaba Altun, Başkent University

Ph.D., Başkent University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences

Özgür Erdur Baker, Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences

Ph.D., Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences

Oya Yerin Güneri, Middle East Technical University

Ph.D., Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences

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2015-04-14

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Tanrıkulu, İbrahim, Akbaba Altun, S., Erdur Baker, Özgür, & Yerin Güneri, O. (2015). Misuse of ICTs among Turkish children and youth: A study on newspaper reports. Journal of Human Sciences, 12(1), 1230–1243. Retrieved from https://j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/3131

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