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Item Examining 8th graders' use of technology in the pandemic period(AAB College, 2025-07-17) Kazaz, NalanUnderstanding the current and future technology use behaviors of secondary school students who started distance education during the pandemic process is essential to their academic success. The aim of this study is to examine the technology use status of 8th-grade students studying at secondary school during the pandemic period. We used the relational survey model, which is one of the quantitative research methods, in the research. Data was collected by sending the scale to 680 students' parents via link. We used the Dijitanaliz (Digital Addiction Scale) developed by Dilci as a data collection tool and the Dijitanaliz technique in the analysis of the data. According to the findings, 1 out of 3 people has digital addiction, while the remaining 2 out of 3 are candidates for addiction. It is an undeniable fact that the duration of digital media usage has increased during the pandemic process.Item Effects of Digital Media on Education(AAB College, 2025-07-17) Kazaz, NalanThis 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.Item The Other Side of the Mobile World "Mobile Mobbing"(AAB College, 2025-07-17) Kazaz, NalanThe innovations brought by the digital age leave deep traces in the lives of individuals of all ages. With technological tools becoming an integral part of life, we are observing changes in the behaviors and reactions of individuals. Mobile technology pushes individuals to ease and drags them to loneliness in society. Individuals who withdraw into their shells are socializing on mobile platforms. The progress of science and technology from past to present has brought changes in society. Rapidly advancing technology shapes the lives of individuals in many areas. Digitalization has been efficient in the exposure of individuals to an insidious application of mobbing. In this context, the mobile world has come to the point that it threatens the living space of the individual with the content that is a design product it offers. In particular, the role of digital media in a way that interferes with every aspect of life has turned into digital despotism. In this study, which is considered a compilation, we used document analysis as a data collection tool. We obtained data by examining the documents related to the subject and handled it through descriptive analysis. In this context, while trying to examine the concept of "mobile mobbing", the other side of the digital world; we discussed digitalization, mobbing, digital violence, cyberbullying, digitalization, and its aspects on human life. As a result, we have reached a high relationship between mobile mobbing and its effect on individuals. Among these results, there are changes in their behaviors and habits, the digital world has turned into a covert mobbing tool, social media contents influence the attitudes of users through hidden messages, exerts pressure on their behavior by directing them, disturbing insults and threats, etc. are shared in communication styles, we have concluded that mobbing is experienced in a similar digital environment. In this context, we have listed suggestions and measures against mobile mobbing, with digital media users being more careful and conscious of techniques, respecting safe sharing with courtesy rules in their discourse and actions.Item Analysis of the state of digital contact habits of primary school students(AAB College, 2025-07-17) Kazaz, NalanThe aim of this study is to examine the status of digital contact habits of primary school students during the pandemic period. This study is important because it will reveal the difference between primary school students' digital contact habits before and after the COVID-19 period. The study also has the distinction of being the first within the scope of studies conducted at primary school level in the direction of digital life skills and addiction. Survey method was used. The study group consists of 986 parents of primary school students in three different provinces in districts similar to each other in terms of socio-economic and cultural aspects. The collected data were obtained by Digital analyze technique. The data was interpreted in the artificial intelligence-algorithmic system. According to the findings, the addiction rate increased in the study group students during the COVID-19 period, and one out of every four children was digitally dependent