ÖZET Günümüz ileti?iminin geldi?i nokta bundan 15-20 yyl öncesinde ya?amy? insanlaryn hayal bile edemeyecekleri durumdadyr. Yeni ileti?im teknolojilerinden cep telefonlary, internet, e-mail ve yazyly kysa mesaj (SMS) ise, bu durumun ana nedeni olmaktadyrlar. Bunlar sayesinde belirli bir mekandan ileti?im kurma zorunlulu?u ortadan kalkarken; görüntülü, sesli ve yazyly bilgiye günün her hangi bir zamanynda ula?ylabilme; ki?ilere özel mesajlar (sesli, görüntülü, yazyly) büyük boyutlarda, hemen her ?artta, ucuz ve anynda gönderilebilme imkany ortaya çykmaktadyr. Bu özellikler neticesinde ise, toplumun en aktif kesimini olu?turan üniversite ö?rencileri tarafyndan, yeni ileti?im teknolojileri, özellikle de yazyly kysa mesaj (SMS), ileti?im kurmada yaygyn olarak kullanylan araçlardan olmu?tur. Üniversite ö?rencilerinin yazyly kysa mesaj (SMS) kullanma aly?kanlyklaryny, neden ve sonuçlaryyla ortaya koymak için tasarlanmy? olan bu çaly?ma, Selçuk Üniversitesi Yleti?im Fakültesi ö?rencileri üzerinde yapylmy? alan ara?tyrmasyndan olu?maktadyr.

ABSTRACT The high level of communication today is such a point that the people who lived fifteen of twenty years ago had never been able to imagine. The reasons of this perception are mainly cellular phones, Internet, e-mail and SMS. The obligation of being at a certain distance to be able to communicate with someone else was removed thanks to those means and any printed or audio-visual information have been accessible and available at any time of the day. What is more, we have an opportunity to send cheap private short messages instantly carrying not only our written message but also our voice and photos under almost all circumstances. Nowadays, by reason of their great advantages, those new technologies, particularly SMS, are commonly used by the students who are one of the most active parts of the society for communication. This study which was carried out to find out and introduce the university students' typical habits of using SMS together with their causes and effects consists of a field research on students at Faculty of Communication at Selcuk University.