New Media Literacy: New Skills/Opportunities/Risks

New media literacy presents an significant debate arena with due to digital competence and skills, online opportunities it provides and risks it carries. This is because the mobilization of contemporary media, their easily accessible nature and connecting to the network via mobile phones freely from space and time have brought new media to the very centre of our lives. Speed and change in the new media technologies carry new opportunities and risks especially for children and adolescents. New media environment and tools have a social role that determine, shape, transform modern social relations. Technologically-mediated communication relations, online behaviour and attitudes are the subjects of a great deal of research. Being in the net or connected all the time contains a lot of risks in itself in addition to important place it occupies in the social identity construction of adolescents. The individual who needs to be media literate in the face of the traditional media has to be more conscious and educated in the face of ever-changing multimedia environments and productions digital transformations have brought about. In this context, structural changes and transformations in information and communication technologies have made it essential to discuss new media literacy and new literacy skills, online opportunities and risks. This study, focusing on these concepts, aims to detemine the situation of new media literacy field. It has been asserted at the end of conceptual discussion that today it is obligatory to raise new media literate individuals who have digital competencies and skills of 21st century, are able to benefit from online opportunities at the maximum level and are aware of the risks and reduce them to a minimum level