With as of the start of the 2000s, technology and internet have become almost indispensable in the lives of individuals. Rapid development of technology has increased the interest and dependence of people on the internet and made it compulsory to use the internet. Increased use of the internet has led to the development invention of mobile devices, cloud technologies, and information and communication technologies. Besides facilitating and accelerating their lives, this situation has caused individuals to encounter some risks. Individuals can exchange information in an online environment, share their feelings and thoughts in a comfortable way, easily benefit from public services and be aware of the events that take place in various parts of the world. In addition, they have started to perform some transactions in electronic media such as e-shopping, e-government, e-book, e-library, e-pulse, e-banking. This brought about the concept of digital life. Digital life has changed a large part of our habits as the Internet began to enter our lives. Most of these changes are in the fields of communication and life perception. This phenomenon led researchers to work more intensively on the concept of digital citizenship. While researching the effects of digital citizenship on the one hand, studies were carried out to determine what to do at school and at teachers’ level. The aim of this study is to address the trends and gaps observed in the research studies about on digital citizenship and to focus on which their subject areas in Turkey. As a result of literature review: (1) Most of the researches studies that are conducted as a result of literature review are focused on students and teachers, (2) In these studies many different scales have been developed to determine the levels of digital citizenship according to the focal point and different factors.
The main purpose of this study is to determine whether digital literacy is a predictor of digital citizenship by examining the relationship between digital citizenship and digital literacy levels of secondary education students in terms of various variables. The study group of the study consists of 847 secondary school students' who study in public schools in Selcuklu central district of Konya province in 2018-2019 academic year. The screening method, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the research. As data collection tool; "Personal Information Form" developed by the researcher to reach the personal information of secondary school students, "Digital Citizenship Scale" developed by Som-Vural to determine the levels of digital citizenship, and "Digital Literacy Scale" developed by Hamutoglu and others to determine the levels of digital literacy was applied. At the end of the study, it was concluded that the digital citizenship levels of secondary school students were high. It was concluded that there is a significant difference between the levels of digital citizenship of secondary school students and the year of internet use. It is concluded that there was no significant difference between gender, class level, time spent on daily internet time variables and secondary school students' digital literacy levels. There was no significant difference between class level variable and digital literacy level. In the correlation analysis conducted to determine the relationship between digital citizenship levels and digital literacy levels of secondary school students, it was found that there was a positive directional and significant relationship at the, medium-level. In addition, the effect of digital literacy on digital citizenship was found to be positive directional and significant.
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