Examination of Digital Media Literacy Levels of University Students in Sports Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the digital literacy levels of university students in sports education according to dependent and independent variables. The Digital Literacy Scale (DLS) was developed by Ng (2012) and adapted to Turkish by Hamutoglu et al. (2017). The Digital Literacy Scale consists of 4 sub-dimensions and 17 items. The sample of the study consisted of 517 university students and the data obtained were analyzed using the SPSS 25.0 software. The data collected from the participants were analyzed using an independent sample T-Test and One- Way ANOVA. The analyses conducted in the study revealed that the students had high levels of digital media literacy. A Pearson correlation analysis was completed to determine the level and direction of the relationship between dependent variables. The correlation analysis showed that the strongest, high-level relationship was between the “digital literacy scale” and its technical subdimension (r= 0.890; p<0.000). In conclusion, as the class and education level of students who do sports increase, the rise of digital literacy; It is thought that digital literacy between men and women will be parallel to the education of students in free and democratic conditions.