Content Readability Levels in New Media About `Social Media Addiction`: Websites in Turkish

Authors : Rufen Oral

Pages : 87-99

Doi:10.55609/yenimedya.1650192

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Publication Date : 2025-12-23

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This research aims to examine the informative content readability levels of Turkish websites about social media addiction using an interdisciplinary approach. Between November 1 and 10, 2024, the words \\\"social media addiction\\\" have been searched on the Google search engine. Among the websites that appeared in search results, commercial content, advertisements, forums, magazines, slideshows, surveys, websites that contain only images or videos, and sentences that have less than 10 words were not included in the study. Within this framework, 79 websites from new media, such as the web pages of public and private institutions or personal and expert blogs were included in the review as a result of a 50-page scan. The texts on these websites were calculated according to the average number of syllables and the average number of words with four syllables or more using the Ateşman and Bezirci-Yılmaz readability scores. The IBM SPSS 25,0 program was used for the data analysis. While the average number of syllables of the sites included in the study was 2.91±0.11, the average number of words with four syllables or more in the sentence was 4.22±1.28, the average Ateşman readability score was 45.94±11.63 and the average Bezirci-Yılmaz readability score was 13.20±4.00. In conclusion, the readability levels of the texts in the informative websites on social media addiction were found to be at the “difficult” level according to Ateşman and at the “undergraduate” level according to Bezirci-Yılmaz.
Keywords : sosyal medya bağımlılığı, yeni medya, internet, okunabilirlik, Ateşman ve Bezirci-Yılmaz okunabilirlik formülü

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