Political knowledge gap: The view of political knowledge gap among social media users in Türkiye
Çiçek Topçu, Meral SerarslanThis study primarily focuses on the relationship between social media use and the political knowledge gap in Türkiye. The work in this focus axis, when it comes to political issues, is built to question and research the political knowledge gap among individuals who are categorized at different levels in terms of socio economic status, education level, motivation, and social media use variables. Based on the problematic in question, the differentiation in education and socio economic level is at the center. Gender, motivation, and social media use are other variables that are investigated. The research aims to examine whether the effect of social media environments, which are today’s most common usage area, on the level of political knowledge reveals a meaningful differentiation and to reveal at what points information gaps arise. For this purpose, field research was carried out in Türkiye with 1.076 people. Our study has a quantitative design, based on the fact that its original value is in its being the first research in this field in our country. The data obtained from the documents showed that education level and gender variables are no longer determining factors in the knowledge gap hypothesis research.