Metaphors Used by the Students at Kocaeli University Sports Sciences Faculty Regarding E-sports Concept
This study aims to determine what the students at KOU Sport Sciences Faculty think about e-sports via using metaphors. In accordance with this aim, 293 volunteering students were given a questionnaire which evaluates their opinions about e-sports via metaphors. According to the results, which was ap...
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| description | This study aims to determine what the students at KOU Sport Sciences Faculty think about e-sports via using metaphors. In accordance with this aim, 293 volunteering students were given a questionnaire which evaluates their opinions about e-sports via metaphors. According to the results, which was applied by descriptive analysis, 47,4% of the students at Sport Sciences Faculty admitted that they hadn’t heard of e-sports before. 56,9 % of the female students and 51,3% of the male students stated they had heard of this concept. The most frequently used metaphors by all the students were found to be ‘’digital technological environment’’ (9,2%); ‘’basic need’’ (7,5%); and ‘’entertainment-games’’ ( 6,8%). The results for female students were as follows: The rate for ‘’basic need’’ 9,2% ; ‘’positive feeling’’ 6,2 %; and ‘’entertainment-games’’ 4,2%. As for the male students; 11% of them used metaphors for ‘’digital technological environment’’; 7,5% ‘’entertainment-games’’ and 7% “basic need” |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0f0cc5b872c944929b547aef197e90072022-12-21T20:02:09ZengEDP SciencesSHS Web of Conferences2261-24242018-01-01480105810.1051/shsconf/20184801058shsconf_erpa2018_01058Metaphors Used by the Students at Kocaeli University Sports Sciences Faculty Regarding E-sports ConceptKaragün ElifSarper Kahveci MügeKahveci InancEkiz Zekiye DilayThis study aims to determine what the students at KOU Sport Sciences Faculty think about e-sports via using metaphors. In accordance with this aim, 293 volunteering students were given a questionnaire which evaluates their opinions about e-sports via metaphors. According to the results, which was applied by descriptive analysis, 47,4% of the students at Sport Sciences Faculty admitted that they hadn’t heard of e-sports before. 56,9 % of the female students and 51,3% of the male students stated they had heard of this concept. The most frequently used metaphors by all the students were found to be ‘’digital technological environment’’ (9,2%); ‘’basic need’’ (7,5%); and ‘’entertainment-games’’ ( 6,8%). The results for female students were as follows: The rate for ‘’basic need’’ 9,2% ; ‘’positive feeling’’ 6,2 %; and ‘’entertainment-games’’ 4,2%. As for the male students; 11% of them used metaphors for ‘’digital technological environment’’; 7,5% ‘’entertainment-games’’ and 7% “basic need”https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20184801058Sports Sciences FacultyStudentMetaphore-sports |
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| title | Metaphors Used by the Students at Kocaeli University Sports Sciences Faculty Regarding E-sports Concept |
| title_full | Metaphors Used by the Students at Kocaeli University Sports Sciences Faculty Regarding E-sports Concept |
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| title_short | Metaphors Used by the Students at Kocaeli University Sports Sciences Faculty Regarding E-sports Concept |
| title_sort | metaphors used by the students at kocaeli university sports sciences faculty regarding e sports concept |
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| url | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20184801058 |
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