The view of political knowledge gap among social media users in Türkiye
This study primarily focuses on the relationship between social media use and the political knowledge gap in Türkiye. Regarding political issues, the work in this focus axis is built on questioning and researching the political knowledge gap among individuals categorized at different levels regardin...
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| author | Çiçek Topçu Meral Serarslan |
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| description | This study primarily focuses on the relationship between social media use and the political knowledge gap in Türkiye. Regarding political issues, the work in this focus axis is built on questioning and researching the political knowledge gap among individuals categorized at different levels regarding socio-economic status, education level, motivation, and social media use variables. Based on the problem, the differentiation in education and socio-economic level is at the center. Gender, motivation, and social media use are other investigated variables. The research examines whether the effect of social media environments, which are today’s most common usage area, on the level of political knowledge reveals a meaningful differentiation and reveals at what points information gaps arise. For this purpose, field research was carried out in Türkiye with 1.076 people. The study has a quantitative design based on the fact that its original value is in its being the first research in this field in the country. The data obtained from the documents showed that education level and gender variables are no longer determining factors in the knowledge gap hypothesis research. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-79de596b01a644a8b42705efb25b14fd2025-08-20T03:52:32ZengIstanbul University PressConnectist Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences2636-89432024-07-016611914510.26650/CONNECTIST2023-1056578123456The view of political knowledge gap among social media users in TürkiyeÇiçek Topçu0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9273-2529Meral Serarslan1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2059-5585Antalya Belek Üniversitesi, Antalya, TürkiyeSelçuk Üniversitesi, Konya, TurkiyeThis study primarily focuses on the relationship between social media use and the political knowledge gap in Türkiye. Regarding political issues, the work in this focus axis is built on questioning and researching the political knowledge gap among individuals categorized at different levels regarding socio-economic status, education level, motivation, and social media use variables. Based on the problem, the differentiation in education and socio-economic level is at the center. Gender, motivation, and social media use are other investigated variables. The research examines whether the effect of social media environments, which are today’s most common usage area, on the level of political knowledge reveals a meaningful differentiation and reveals at what points information gaps arise. For this purpose, field research was carried out in Türkiye with 1.076 people. The study has a quantitative design based on the fact that its original value is in its being the first research in this field in the country. The data obtained from the documents showed that education level and gender variables are no longer determining factors in the knowledge gap hypothesis research.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/2719DB838A4647998D7804FAA41C6330knowledge gap hypothesispolitical knowledge gapsocial media usesocio-economic statusmotivation. |
| spellingShingle | Çiçek Topçu Meral Serarslan The view of political knowledge gap among social media users in Türkiye Connectist Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences knowledge gap hypothesis political knowledge gap social media use socio-economic status motivation. |
| title | The view of political knowledge gap among social media users in Türkiye |
| title_full | The view of political knowledge gap among social media users in Türkiye |
| title_fullStr | The view of political knowledge gap among social media users in Türkiye |
| title_full_unstemmed | The view of political knowledge gap among social media users in Türkiye |
| title_short | The view of political knowledge gap among social media users in Türkiye |
| title_sort | view of political knowledge gap among social media users in turkiye |
| topic | knowledge gap hypothesis political knowledge gap social media use socio-economic status motivation. |
| url | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/2719DB838A4647998D7804FAA41C6330 |
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