How EFFECTİVE ARE THE PEGI SİGNS: THE RELATİONSHİP BETWEEN DİGİTAL GAME HABİTS OF PRİMARY EDUCATİON STUDENTS AND PEGI SİGNS

AKILLI İŞARETLER NE KADAR ETKİLİ: İLKÖGRETİM ÖGRENCİLERİNİN DİJİTAL ÜYUN ALIŞKANLIKLARI İLE AKILLI İŞARETLER ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİ

Abstract

This study addresses the video and computer games which have been more popular in recent years in the context of critical nıedia pedagogı; and media literacy, and analyses lıow effective are the PEGI signs in children's game consuming habits. By determining the media pedagogı;-which is located at the overlap point of both communicatioıı ·and education- as a starting point, children's cııltural interests, social participation conditions have been evaluated in the context of the games. However the hasis of the stııdy is not the protective approach and prohibition biased perspective, but ·critical nıedia pedagogı; based on awareness and production. Althoııgh considered as an art form by varioııs authors, it is suggested that video and compııter games are a transmitter of modern nıedia culture and an ideological tool. An anıpiric researclı has been condııcted ta reveal how tlıe PEGI sigııs are effective in clıildren 's ganıe consuming lrnbits and the results are discussed in the context of media literacy. The ampiric research has been conducted �with 125 children between 9-16 ages. Conseqııently PEGI signs coincide with the children's game habits partly. Bııt the coincidence disappears when evalııated separately by gender. Althouglı most of the boys daim that they know the meaning of the PEGI signs, they play the gaınes which are not coincidence with their age. This resıılt has been discııssed too in the scope of the study. Besides it is suggested that ganıe literacı; which is a subtitle of nıedia literacı; may decrease tlıe negative effects of the ganıes

Özet

Son yıllarda popülerliği giderek artan video ve bilgisayar oyunlarının eleştirel medya pedagojisi ve medya okuakıllı işaretler ve yaş sınırı uygulamalarının