Naslov
Primary School Students' Communication using WhatsApp Application

Autori
Turk Sakač, Marija ; Filipan-Žignić, Blaženka ; Legac, Vladimir

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
BES 2018 / Yılmaz, ÇAKICI ; Yıldırım, TUĞLU - Edirne : Trakya University Faculty of Education, Edirne, 2018, 50-66

ISBN
978-975-374-228-3

Skup
13th International Balkan Education & Science Cogress

Mjesto i datum
Edirne, Turska, 06.09.2018. - 08.09.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
WhatsApp application, elements of the language of new media, abbreviations, English loan words, regional dialectal expressions

Sažetak
New media services seem to represent some kind of a meeting place for today's young people. New services attracting young people and motivating them to get involved in them have been emerging on a daily basis. In that sense, young people have been increasingly replacing or supplementing their communication on Facebook with mobile applications, among which the dominating one has become WhatsApp. In all of these services, communication between the youth has become momentary, without long reflections about what to say or write, all because of the lack of time and money and the desire for as few touches on the mobile display as possible. One could possibly say that young people of today "talk by typing" or "talk with their fingers". It is often heard that the influence of such a language of new media young people under are becoming more and more illiterate in both the writing and the oral expression. Therefore, the topic of this research is to investigate the kind of smart phone service offered by the WhatsApp application and to what extent the elements of the language of new media are present in the communication of young people in their leisure time while using the WhatsApp application. The purpose of the research is to explore whether during their leisure time activities by means of WhatsApp application students aged 14 and 15 use any of the following elements of the language of new media: abbreviations, English loan words, dialectisms and vulgarisms, as well as the way and type of youth communication through the WhatsApp application. Students (N = 107) from "Ivan Benković" Primary School in Dugo Selo completed a questionnaire related to the use of WhatsApp application and the use of elements of the language of new media in free time on WhatsApp where on a 5-point Likert- type scale (never, rarely, sometimes, often, always) they had to circle the frequency of their use of certain elements of the language of new media. The results of this research show that most students often use the mentioned elements of the language of new media when communicating through the WhatsApp application. It has also been shown that in their leisure time interpersonal communication with peers, students often use WhatsApp service, while simultaneously being members of several WhatsApp groups, but they do not so frequently send and forward photos and videos.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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