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We aimed to analyze multitasking behaviors of digital natives in Turkey while interacting with new media, within the scope of the following questions: What kind of multitasking behaviors do digital natives exhibit? How does being a multitasker influence digital natives’ interaction with new media? We used dominant-less dominant, quantitative-qualitative sequential mixed research method. The target group is teenagers, aged from 13 to 17 as being digital natives. The sample size is 494 in the quantitative part; 10 in the qualitative part. According to the results, the rate of being a multitasker among digital natives is very high. Multitaskers think multitasking is a very natural behavior and they feel very comfortable with it. On the other hand, there are some negative issues regarding multitasking, such as losing attention.
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Uğraş, T., Gülseçen, S. (2013). Multitasking: Digital Natives’ Interaction with New Media. In: Harris, D. (eds) Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. Understanding Human Cognition. EPCE 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8019. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39360-0_11
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