THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF DIGITAL ACTIVISM: THE EFFECT OF GENDER ON SOCIAL ACTIVIST PARTICIPATION LEVEL OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
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2019
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The study aims to understand the participation status of the university students in the protest activities defined as digital or social activism, which are organized commonly through social media in the example of Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University. The survey to get data regarding the participation situtation of the students to various protest activities that starts online and are delivered offline and the effect of gender on this participation was applied to 320 individuals. The study results deduced out of testing three hypothesis in total showed that online activities have small effects on reality. The reactions are limited to subscribing or likes, and 80% of the students, that is four out of five students, do not participate in these physical offline activities. Also the percentages of respondents who answered negatively in participation to activist actions about 54% in women and 58% in men. It might be said that there is no a significant difference between genders.
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İletişim, Siyasi Bilimler, Etnik Çalışmalar, Kültürel Çalışmalar, Sosyoloji, Davranış Bilimleri
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Elektronik Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (elektronik)
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18
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69
