Educational Status and Opinions of Voters Regarding the Social Environment and New Media Tools
Cüneyt Kurtulan 1 * , Esra Aydın Kılıç 1
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1 European University of Lefke, N. CYPRUS* Corresponding Author

This article has been presented in ICES 2017 - International Conference on Environmental Sciences & Educational Studies.
This article belongs to the special issue "Interdisciplinary Research on the Environmental Education, Educational Studies in Sustainability & Instructional Technologies and Designs".

Abstract

This study was conducted to reveal the opinions of voters regarding the social environment and new media tools with respect to their educational status. In the survey, it was aimed to reveal the factors that constitute the elements of the social environment and new media tools by taking into account the educational situation of voters, which are preliminary. For this purpose, a questionnaire was applied to 440 persons and interviewed in 5 provinces of the Northern part of Cyprus, which were determined by non-probability sampling method. When the research findings were evaluated, it was determined that the graduates of secondary schools are the mostly affected group by social environment during the campaigns. In addition, it was determined that ‘new media tools mostly affected graduate/doctoral graduates while voting decision was being.

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Article Type: Research Article

EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2018, 183-195

https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/79631

Publication date: 02 Nov 2017

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