Üniversite öğrencileri arasında tıkınırcasına izleme hakkında bir nitel araştırma: COVID-19 pandemisi öncesi ve sonrası

This qualitative study aimed to understand the binge-watching behavior among Turkish university students including contributing factors for the onset and continuity of the behavior, binge-watching patterns, how it impacts their life before and during the pandemic. For this reason, Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) analysis was performed on the data collected from participants before (n=8) and during (n=7) the pandemic. The semi-structured interview protocol with open-ended questions was used. Results of the data analysis revealed four main domains as understanding the basics of the binge-watching behavior, motives lie behind binge-watching, effects of binge-watching, and what had changed during the pandemic in terms of binge-watching. Under all domains, a total of 33 categories and 25 subcategories were coded. The first domain, understanding the basics of binge-watching behavior covered participants' perspectives on behavior, their definitions, the contributing factors, the onset of behavior, the behavior patterns, and how they perceive others' binge-watching behavior. The second domain, the motives of the participants in performing the binge-watching behavior. The third domain, effects of binge-watching contained how binge-watching behavior affects their physical, social, psychological, and academic performances. The last domain, what had changed during the pandemic in terms of binge-watching involved the differences and observations of the participants during the pandemic process. The findings were discussed in the light of current binge-watching literature, the pandemic conditions, and possible implications and suggestions for future studies were provided.