Internet usage

2002

Nearly four-fifths of college students (79%) agree that Internet use has had a positive impact on their college academic experience.

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2007

Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2002

College Students, Faculty. and Internet Use. Steve Jones, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow, Pew Internet & American Life Project. ... Adjunct Research Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. © 2005 Steve Jones, Pew Internet & American Life Project. ...

Social Science Computer Review, 2007

The Internet is increasingly becoming embedded in the lives of most American citizens. College students constitute a group who have made particularly heavy use of the technology for everything from downloading music to distance education to instant messaging. Researchers know a lot about the uses made of the Internet by this group of people but less about the relationship between their offline activities and online behavior. This study reports the results of a web survey of a group of university undergraduates exploring the nature of both online and offline in five areas—the use of news and information, the discussion of politics, the seeking of health information, the use of blogs, and the downloading of media and software.

2003

Department Azad ,social science, khalkhal Branch, Islamic Azad university, khalkhal,Iran.

2007

- Verhoeven, Jef C., Heerwegh, Dirk. & De Wit, Kurt (2010) "Information and Communication Technologies in the Life of University Freshmen: An Analysis of Change", Computers & Education, 55 (1), 53-66. doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.12.002, 2010

The passage from secondary school to university puts students in an environment with different expectations. Not only the expectations towards learning might change, but also towards ICT competences and computer use. The purpose of this article is to find out whether freshmen, after 6 months at the university, changed their self-perception of ICT competences and computer use in comparison with their behaviour at secondary school, and what factors can explain the self-perception of ICT competences and computer use in secondary school, in the university and their possible change. Based on a panel research among 714 freshmen of a large university, this article answers the following questions: (1) What is the self-perception of ICT competences among freshmen and is there a change in this self-perception 6 months after entering the university? (2) How often and for what purpose do freshmen use a computer and is there a change in the frequency of the use of a computer? (3) What factors might influence this attitude, behaviour, and possible change? In function of the basic components of Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (Venkatesh, Morris, Davis, & Davis, 2003) hypotheses was developed and tested to answer these questions. Students who consider the computer to be a useful instrument, have control over the computer, possess a certain level of Internet competence, and are at ease with computers are more likely to have the skills needed to maintain a computer, to develop a web site, and to use basic ICT skills. The predictors have little influence on Internet usage. The same predictors contribute modestly to the explanation of the different frequencies of computer use, and a few of the predictors explain parts of change in ICT skills and frequency of computer use.

Social Science Computer …, 2008

TEM Journal

The objective of this research is to test whether the use of the Internet becomes problematic in the lives of university students and how demographic variables impact the subject of study. The Internet-Related Experiences (CERI) questionnaire proposed by Beranuy et al. (2009) was used. The results reveal that 77% of students have problems using the Internet, and 40% have frequent issues using the Internet. Additionally, the results show evidence that there is no difference in the level of internet use between the gender and age variables, however, with reference to the semester they are studying, there is a significant difference.