The purpose of this study was to suggest proper vision of media education by scrutinizing the effect of the negative usage of smartphone on children. To achieve this aim, this study tried to collect children`s experience through grounded theory one of...
The purpose of this study was to suggest proper vision of media education by scrutinizing the effect of the negative usage of smartphone on children. To achieve this aim, this study tried to collect children`s experience through grounded theory one of qualitative analysis method. As a result of utilizing open coding, axial coding and selective coding, there appeared 43 concepts, 23 subcategories and 10 categories about the elementary school students` negative usage experience of smartphone and overcome strategy. The casual conditions for using smartphone were attract to smartphone, collective usage, and the central phenomena ware relationship with friends and conflict with parents. The contextual conditions were overall social condition. There appeared strategic consequences such as resonable usage, resolution in relationship through the interventional conditions of negative awareness of others. When the process of their changes was analyzed, it`s found that they tried to overcome their negative experience of smartphone and aware of need for media education.