SOSYAL AĞLARDA MAHREMİYETİN DÖNÜŞÜMÜ: INSTAGRAM ÖRNEĞİ

Abstract

Privacy, which is defined as the most valuable right, confidentiality and secret of the individual, is one of the building blocks of the individual's process of socialization. Privacy is a right and there is a violation of this right in two ways: the right of the person to be violated illegally and revealing one's private life at his/her own will. In particular, the violation of privacy by the person himself/herself at his/her own will has increased with the widely used social media environments. Especially, visual social media which is among the social networks have paved the way for this increase. Instagram, one of the foremost visual-based social media, is undoubtedly one of the areas where privacy is violated most frequently. People lose both the majority of their time and the limits of their privacy, predominantly in these media. In this study, the transformation of privacy after the advent of social networks is discussed. Using quantitative data, the students of Erciyes University were surveyed, and they were asked about their Instagram usage patterns, aims and differences. This thesis will provide information about the awareness of the social media and privacy sensibilities of the young people we regard as the future of society and entrusted our future to, in proportion to their educational level. Within the scope of the research, a total of 600 students were surveyed in 10 faculties, which were selected by means of accidental sampling method in Erciyes University. After the questionnaires which are incorrect or have missing information were excluded, 558 valid questionnaires were examined. As a result of the research, it was determined that the students used social media actively, and as the income levels increased, privacy violations increased.