Effects of Digital Media on Education (Meta-Thematic Analysis)

Authors

  • Nalan Kazaz Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education AAB College, Faculty of Social Sciences/ psychology department, Kosovo
  • Tuncay Dilci Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Turkey
  • Tolga Karadaş Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences,

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v17i16.32181

Keywords:

Social Media, Digital Game, Digital Addiction, Education, Meta-Thematic

Abstract


This study aims to combine studies examining the effects of heavily contacted digital media on education in digital gaming, social media, and digital addiction and conduct related research. For this purpose, meta-thematic analysis was employed, one of the qualitative research methods. In the study, the question 'What are the effects of digital media according to parents, teachers, and students?’ has been answered. The document analysis technique was adopted from qualitative methods as a data collection tool in the research. The data were analyzed according to the categories of ’parent, teacher, student, and socio-cultural reflections. It has been concluded that the tasks and responsibilities that students should perform in their daily lives reflect the negatives such as interaction, academic failure, waste of time, uncontrolled contact habits, perception disorder, and miscommunication in the educational process. According to the results obtained, the necessary precautions against the negativity of social media and digital games, digital literacy, and enhancing competencies of your family, individual students according to their degree of dependency on the type of digital media content and latent hazards be interfered with by experts on the implicit message to students which activities they will receive the satisfaction of daily living dependency oriented measures to the problem of design and digital boosting, etc. the recommendations are listed.

 

Keywords—Social Media, Digital Game, Digital Addiction, Education, Meta-Thematic

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Published

2022-08-31

How to Cite

Kazaz, N. ., Dilci, T. ., & Karadaş, . T. . (2022). Effects of Digital Media on Education (Meta-Thematic Analysis). International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 17(16), pp. 222–242. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v17i16.32181

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Vol. 17 No. 16 (2022)

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