Turkish Teacher Candidates' Perception of New Media: A Metaphor Analysis

Abstract

This study was conducted to reveal the metaphors that Turkish teacher candidates have about the concept of 'new media'. The study group of the research consists of 52 pre-service Turkish language teachers studying in the Turkish language teaching department of a state university in western Turkey in the autumn term of the academic year 2022-2023. The data of the study were obtained from the texts written by the prospective Turkish teachers in order to complete the statement given as 'New media is like ... because ...'. In this study, phenomenological design, one of the qualitative research designs, was used. The data obtained from the answers given by the participants were analysed by content analysis technique. According to the findings of the study, 44 different metaphors were produced. These metaphors were then categorised under five different sub-categories. Among these categories, 'new media in terms of basic needs' and 'new media in terms of providing information and communication' were the categories that produced the most metaphors in line with the responses of more than half of the participants.