Investigation of The Fine Arts Students` Attitudes Towards Social Media

With the rapid development of technology and its tools, your social life and interpersonal relationships are changing. Especially with social media tools, we have become content producers and consumers on the internet at the same time. Social media has been the subject of many research studies. In many studies, research was carried out on social media tools, social media usage times and effectiveness. Recommendations on the effective use of social media have been introduced. Effective use of social media is directly related to attitudes towards social media. In this study, it was investigated whether the attitudes of the students of the Faculty of Fine Arts towards social media differ significantly from gender, department, age and duration of usage time. Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis test were used for non-parametric tests for the analysis because the measurement results did not have normal distribution. According to the results of the research, participants ' attitudes are low and moderate. The attitudes of the students do not depend on their gender, departments and age groups. However, the attitudes of the students towards social media is changed according to their daily social media usage time