Examination Of Metaverse Awareness Levels Of University Students Who Have Sports Education

Abstract

Being a thinking creature, human has made progress in almost every subject that his mind has reached. The word technology has also emerged as a result of this development. With the advancement of technology in today's digital age, systems that transmit human behaviors to the digital world have also developed rapidly. Metaverse is a good example that can be given to these systems and concepts lately. This technology, in which human movements are at the center, provides benefits in many different fields such as medicine, games, sports and art. In this context, it is important to include the Metaverse, a new technological phenomenon that will contribute to the development and technological progress of sports, in the field of sports, and to introduce and train all individuals in the sports community to the Metaverse. In this study, it was conducted to investigate the Metaverse knowledge, attitude and awareness level of the students studying at the Faculty of Sports Sciences in order to reveal the state of Metaverse knowledge and awareness of the students studying at the Faculty of Sports Sciences, which provides human resources to the field of sports, and to draw attention to the awareness of Metaverse technology. The sample of the study consists of 238 students studying at Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Sport Sciences. As a result of our study, while a significant difference was found in various sub-dimensions according to the gender, income level and possession of crypto money, no significant difference was found according to the departments of the students.