Digital Media Literacy and Content Production in Social Media

Together with the transition from traditional to digital media, it has become

necessary to raise awareness of individuals in every layer of society, and

create awareness in terms of reaching qualified information. In addition to

the opportunities provided by digital media, its ability to influence

individuals of all ages, as well as their diversity, have all made the concept

of digital media literacy important. Nowadays, digital media literacy has

taken its place in international documents as an indispensable life skill.

The most important factor in the transition from traditional media

literacy to digital is the emergence of the social media concept as an

extension of the developments in information technologies. Social networks

are online tools that allow individuals to express themselves, to merge their

social networks, to establish connections with other users, and to maintain

these links. In general, social networks have become important tools for

sharing daily events and news.

In a survey conducted by Hootsuite and We Are Social in 2017, it was

revealed that approximately three billion people are active social network

users, and about five billion people use mobile technologies (Cassidy 2017).

Assuming that information is obtained through the internet and internet

technologies, it is natural that the information gatherer, under the hegemony

of knowledge, thinks all kinds of news are real. It should be kept in mind

that information produced on the internet, and in particular, in social

networks, can only protect the individual if he/she is literate. One of the

main tasks of educators is to take into account the risks that social networks

present to young people, and to provide necessary support in this context