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RTÜK Vice Chairman İbrahim Uslu the Twitter account he shared with current data on children’s media through Turkey and UK regulatory and supervisory principles. The ongoing dissertation focuses on face protection. Stating that children are away from school life due to the effect of the pandemic and spending more time at home, Uslu said:
Reflecting this, the time children spend with the media is increasing further. Research results published by the Office of Communication (Ofcom), the UK’s regulatory and supervisory organization in the field of communication, on children’s media habits during the pandemic period contain quite surprising data. The study, carried out in June, focuses on the leisure and media consumption habits of children living in England, Scotland and Wales, between the ages of 9 and 16 and unable to attend school due to quarantine. The quarantine process has caused children to spend more time in front of the screen than usual. The vast majority of children school-age children do not have a system for spending free time at home and tend to occupy their free time with online activities in their room rather than in the family.
‘TIKTOK NON-USER RATE ONLY 7 PERCENT’
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Uslu, and noted that the phenomenon of socialization is now being brought into online environments with new routines and behaviors, “Children see games on game consoles such as PS4, Xbox as a way to communicate and images on multiple screens (Discord TikTok is the most popular social media application in this period. Children who spend a few hours in front of this application have used the phrase ‘the best way to kill time’ for TikTok. Children who prefer to upload their own content to The app mostly claimed that they copied the content of people who are famous on the platform (TikTokker) in some cases. The non-TikTok rate of the sample is only 7.
The words of 16-year-old William on the application are remarkable; ‘When I was entering the app to spend only 5 minutes, I also saw 2 hours go by while I was scrolling the videos, this is almost an addiction.’ “The increase in the number of stars on social networks called YouTuber and TikTokker causes children to imitate them and increase their belief that producing their own content will make them money.”
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‘I TENDED TO DO LESS HOMEWORK’
Uslu noted that the habits of children watching television with traditional tools are also changing, “There is a trend towards optional media services such as Netflix, Prime Video, Spotify, video sharing platforms such as TikTok, YouTube and multimedia devices such as Amazon Fire. Stick.
Children also show great interest in live content and short videos. Children who learn at a distance tend to do much less homework than during the normal school years. The reason for this is that most children are estranged from routines and the system they are used to. Also, physical exercises in online settings are popular with girls. Some have said that they feel insecure about their own body and pressured to watch others online (YouTubers). The children gave up their initial interest in Covid-19 news over time, “he shared his information.
