A study on the attitudes of the faculty of communication students towards computer usage

The second and fourth year students (n=211) of the Departments of Public Relations (n=66), Journalism (n=66) and Radio and Television (n=79) of the Faculty of Communication at Ege University constitute the sample for this study which aims to analyze the attitudes of the Faculty of Communication students towards computer usage and the factors that have an impact on it. To collect data, an "Attitude Scale Towards Computers" developed by Serin (2001) and a personal information questionnaire have been used, and to analyze data obtained, One-Way Anova, F, and t tests have been employed, and the correlation coefficients have been calculated. The research findings have revealed that the attitudes of the Faculty of Communication students towards computer usage are very positive, and do not change according to their departments, years, ages, sexes, high schools, family incomes, education levels of their parents, computer usage, whether they have computers at home, or they had computer education before or during their college years, but according to their computer experience before the college. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved