...form clusters, these universities were further divided and each cluster consisted of four faculties i.e. faculty of social sciences, faculty of business/management sciences, faculty of engineering and faculty of natural sciences. Simple random sampling was used at last stage of multistage sampling. Personally administrated questionnaires were used as data collection tool showing the response rate of 73%. Study concluded that there is a significant difference of use of SNSs between male and female students. Male students are more inclined towards use of these sites than female students. But study did not find any significant effect of area of study, educational level, study year, on the extent of SNS’ usage. Studying habits of the students were found to be significantly affected by the time spend on leisure activities, time spent on Internet, time spent on using SNS and...
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...DEMOGRAPHY OF INTERNET DATING IN THE UNITED STATES* Jessica M. Sautter, Duke University Rebecca M. Tippett, Duke University S. Philip Morgan, Duke University This is a preprint of an Article accepted for publication in Social Science Quarterly © 2010 Southwestern Social Science Association. *All authors contributed equally and share authorship of this article. Direct all correspondence to Rebecca M. Tippett, Department of Sociology, Duke University, PO Box 90088, Durham, NC 27705 (rtippett@soc.duke.edu). Data and coding used in this article are available upon request for those wishing to replicate this study. This research was partially supported by a contract, (N01 HD-3-3354; PI. S. Philip Morgan) "Designing New Models for Explaining Family Change and Variation," with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Data collection was carried out and funded by the Pew Foundation with partial support from Duke University. The authors wish to thank Emilio A. Parrado, Seth Sanders, Lee Rainie, John Horrigan, Lynn Smith-Lovin, Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Douglas Downey, Linda K. George, and Nathan D. Martin for helpful comments and suggestions. Early versions of this article were presented at the 2005 Southern Demographic Association Annual Meeting and the 2006 Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. 1 THE SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY OF INTERNET DATING IN THE UNITED STATES ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the sociodemographic correlates of internet dating net...
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...DEMOGRAPHY OF INTERNET DATING IN THE UNITED STATES* Jessica M. Sautter Rebecca M. Tippett S. Phillip Morgan Duke University Durham, NC *The authors share equal authorship. We thank Doug Downey, Mary Madden, Emilio Parrado, and Lynn Smith-Lovin for comments on earlier drafts and the Pew Internet & American Life Project for making the data used here available. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Southern Sociological Society Meetings, March 25, 2006 and the Southern Demographic Association Meetings, November 5, 2005. We acknowledge research support from an NIH contract, “New Approaches to Explaining Family Change and Variation” (N01-HD-3-3354). Direct correspondence to Rebecca M. Tippett: Department of Sociology, Duke University, Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708-0088. E-mail: rtippett@soc.duke.edu APPROX 8,808 WORDS (FULL DOCUMENT, INC ABSTRACT, TABLES, REFERENCES) Social Demography of Internet Dating THE SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY OF INTERNET DATING IN THE UNITED STATES Abstract: Using the first nationally representative survey to focus on internet dating, we identify those “at risk” of using internet dating, i.e., one must have internet access and have been single in the past five years during the technology’s growth. We identify socio-demographic correlates of both these selective processes and estimate use of internet dating net of these processes. We find that socioeconomic and demographic factors have strong effects on the selective processes but weak effects on use...
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...Internet and Society Abstract A growing body of research shows that internet has a huge impact on the society. Based on secondary data available with us, we are expanding the design of impact of internet with reference to youth in India. The maximum usage of internet is done by Gen Y. They use internet for different purposes like Social Media, Email and chatting, Entertainment, E-Commerce and Internet Banking to some extent. We will be showing the fraction of the society using internet and also designing the impact of internet on the mindset of them. Both, positive as well as negative impacts will be drafted. We will be also showing the time spent by an average person on the internet. Introduction Internet The internet is an international system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard internet protocol suite to connect users worldwide. It is composed of a network of smaller networks, from personal computers to large university systems, all of which are linked by various wireless, electronic, and optical technologies. The term “Internet” is the shortened from of the term ‘internetwork’. Global Scenario & Indian Scenario The internet today connects more than 2 billion people worldwide. The internet has a tremendous impact on global economy which contributes around 3 percent of world GDP. The usage of an internet has been predominant in India over the past ten years. Internet penetration in the country may not have crossed 16% of its population...
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...Idealists of the Internet utopia also emphasize the internet’s ability to bring people together and let individuals find accepting communities or those of common interest. In this online utopia, individual users would be able to access various online communities and websites with users having similar interests, concerns, and opinions. For example, Rheingold (1993) was able to obtain information, interact with users online, and be part of an online community through the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (WELL). In the WELL, individuals were able to exchange information, share concerns, and also interact with other WELL users. Launched in 1985, it was one of the few virtual communities with a large range of users and discussions at the time (Rheingold,...
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...the world by Internet. It setting up a better platform for communication or connecting the globe under a common network. Internet truly contributed in making the world smaller place to live in. From text messages to call, from video chats to video conferencing, Internet is such a great blessing to global societies. It can easily send information to a user or get information. Social Network Site (or SNS) such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, YouTube, Skype, Instagram, etc, are some of the famous SNS that many people are interested. There are millions of users is attracted to SNS. People consume a lot of time on this sites uploading or downloading, getting information or sending information concerning their career or academic work. People are always online every second, chatting with friends, watching online videos or movie, doing research. Social Network Site has become a habit for some people, they find it difficult to study for one hour without logging in to one network site. Some users have become very smart because of the information they get from the Social Network Sites. Social Network Site began in 1978 with the Bulletin Board System or BBS. The Bulletin Board System was hosted on personal computers, requiring the users dial in through the modem of the host computer, exchanging information over phone lines with other users. This was the very first system that allowed users to sign in and interact with each other, although it was quite slow since only one user can log in at...
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...♥ Effects Of Social Networking Sites to Study of Fourth year students♥••• Abstract: Social network is a platform for people share their ideals, to meet new friends and to reconnect with old friends. Social networking sites offer people new and varied ways to communicate via the internet, whether through their PC or their mobile phone. Examples include MySpace, Facebook, Skype etec. They allow people to easily and simply create their own online page or profile and to construct and display an online network of contacts, often called ‘friends’. Users of these sites can communicate via their profile both with their ‘friends’ and with people outside their list of contacts. With SNS it is easy to communicate with your classmate, discuss class assignment and even submit project to your lecturer, watch videos, make comment on your friend page etc. This study will focus on the effect of SNS on student academic performance, using GAU as a case study. What are student using SNS for, does it affect their studies, or help them to learn easily. This project will talk about the history of SNS, development and the users of SNS especially by student and lecturers in communicating with colleague and student as well. A 15 question personally administered questionnaire was designed and sent to about 50 students from different country and department in GAU. CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Introduction Since the introduction of social network sites years ago, to communicate...
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...elsevier.com/locate/comphumbeh Antecedents of customer satisfaction with online banking in China: The effects of experience Cheolho Yoon * Dept. of Business Administration, Mokpo National University, Republic of Korea a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t This study investigates the antecedents of customer satisfaction with online banking in China, and explores the effects of experience on the relationships between the antecedents and customer satisfaction. Based on prior research, the six antecedents of customer satisfaction – ease of use, design, speed, security, information content, and customer support service – are proposed, and the effects of experience on the relationships between these and customer satisfaction are analyzed using a structural multi-group (a high-experience group and a low-experience group) model. The results show that design, speed, security, information content, and customer support service have a significant influence on customer satisfaction in the high-experience group or the low-experience group, but ease of use does not have a significant influence on customer satisfaction in either of the groups. Also, the results relating to the influence of the level of customer experience reveal that the effects of design, security, speed, and information content on customer satisfaction were significantly higher in the highexperience group, whereas the effect of customer support service on customer satisfaction was significantly higher in the low-experience...
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...Bibliography Farivar, Cyrus. The Internet of elsewhere: The emergent effects of a wired world. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011. Electronic. Farivar’s book inquire into the biography and legality of the Internet as it sparks mass communications, social networking and mutual bonding, politics, and economics in nations like; South Korea, Senegal, Estonia, and Iran. Farivar focused on these diverse places because of its uniqueness. And whenever it comes to the use of internet in these areas, the exposure varies from one region to another. This allows the reflection of diversity and perception of some events which are peculiar to some...
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...Kowloon HONG KONG SAR mkzhou@cityu.edu.hk Nan Cui Department of Marketing Wuhan University Wuhan CHINA nancui@whu.edu.cn Abstract Whether and how firms can employ relative rankings in search engine results pages (SERPs) to differentiate their brands from competitors in cyberspace remains a critical, puzzling issue in e-commerce research. By synthesizing relevant literature from cognitive psychology, marketing, and e-commerce, this study identifies key contextual factors that are conducive for creating brand positioning online via SERPs. In two experiments, the authors establish that when Internet users’ implicit beliefs (i.e., schema) about the meaning of the display order of search engine results are activated or heightened through feature priming, they will have better recall of an unknown brand that is displayed before the well-known brands in SERPs. Further, those with low Internet search skills tend to evaluate the unknown brand more favorably along the particular brand attribute that activates the search engine ranking schema. This research has both theoretical and practical implications for under- 1 Allen Dennis was the accepting senior editor for this paper. Paul Pavlou served as the associate editor. The appendices for this paper are located in the “Online Supplements” section of...
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...Internet is one of the wonderful inventions of the last century. It becomes more and more popular throughout the world and a great number of people use it. Nowadays, surfing the internet is a preferred pastime for most people specially teenagers and young adults. A survey report, Generation Rx.com by the Kaiser Family Foundation(2001) found the number of teens and young people going online today. By analyzing the results of a nationally representative, including an oversample of nearly 200 African American and Latino youth ninety percent of young people between the ages of 15 to 24 years have been online. Four percent of the rest have never used a computer, and six percent have used a computer but never gone online. Among teens aged 15-17 years, ninety five percent have gone online, and only one percent have never used a computer. Most of them spend a majority of their time to surf the net. They may use the internet to entertain e.g. playing online games. Besides, their education or might jobs require surfing the net. Some people blame it as a dangerous and tremendous waste of time. The others see the internet as an efficient teaching and learning tool for youths .From my point of view, everything has it’s benefits and drawbacks. The paragraphs below provide the positive and negative effects of teenagers and young adults surfing the net based on the causes mentioned above. One of the positive effects is that surfing the net can cause teens and young people to improve...
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...ISSN: 2186-8492, ISSN: 2186-8484 Print エシアン ゾロナル オフ ソシルサエニセズ アンドヒオメニテズ Vol. 2 No. 3 August 2013 EFFECT OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG INTROVERTS AND EXTROVERTS Raj Kumari Kalra1, Preeti Manani2 Faculty of Education, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Agra, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA. 2 preetimanani.1708@gmail.com ABSTRACT The present study investigated the effect of use of Social Networking sites on academic achievement among Introverts and Extroverts. The sample of the study was comprised of 150 students of class XI of C.B.S.E. English medium schools of Agra City. Selection of the sample was done by using ‘Simple Random Sampling Method’. The age range of the students was 16-18 years. The Introversion-Extroversion Inventory (2009) developed by Aziz & Gupta was used to identify the type of personality in terms of introversion and extroversion. Grades obtained in the previous class served as the indicator of academic achievement of the students. Results revealed that there was no significant difference between academic achievement of users and non users of Social Networking Sites (SNS). It was also found that even with personality differences among the students there was no significant difference found among extroverts and introvert students using and not using SNS with reference to their academic achievement. Keywords: SNS, Introversion, Extroversion and Academic Achievement INTRODUCTION Man is a social animal. He needs...
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...Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain Hassan A. Nabi College of Business and Finance, Ahlia University P.O. box 10878, 1st Floor Gosi Complex Exhibiti ons Road, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain Received: March 5, 2011 Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this research paper is to explore and mature the Impact of selected factors on the customers’ intention to use internet banking in Bahrain. Design/methodology/approach – This research based on an empirical study using a questionnaire with five-point Likert-scale, is applied to 171 usable responses. Three factors are tested, that is perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU), security and privacy (PC). Findings – Results indicate that all the elements for the three identified factors are important with respect to the users’ adoption of e-banking services. Credibility factors (Security and Privacy) are the major sources of dissatisfaction, which have remarkably impacted users’ satisfaction. In the meantime, perceived ease of use (PEOU) and perceived usefulness (PU) are sources of satisfaction. The results also disclose that security and privacy factors play an important part in determining the users’ acceptance of e-banking services with respect to different segmentation of age group, income level and level of education. Keywords: Online Banking, E-banking, Banking service 1....
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...of social media on users; Moon, (2011) in a study on “impact of Facebook on undergraduate academic performance”, averred that social media have negative impact on students. According to the result, the more students use Facebook, the more it affects their academic performance. Oye, (2012) notes that most of the younger students use social networking sites mainly for socializing activities, rather than for academic purpose. Oye (2012) further observed that most of the students do feel that social networking sites have more positive impact on their academic performance. In another study conducted by Shana, (2012) it was revealed that students use social network mainly for making friends and chatting. The result showed that only 26 percent of the students indicated that they use social media for academic purpose. Young, (2006) in a study titled “The effect of internet use and social capital on the academic performance of students” observed that the internet expands its reach to teenagers’ school life. Young noted that students are more reliant on the internet to access information that is involved in school life as well as entertainment. The researcher further added that internet, though consumes time, and has less effect on studies. Yang (2003), notes the effect of social media depends large on the degree of usage. Yoon, (2000) observed that the type of social media or network subscribed to by a teenager exerts influence on him or her to visit the internet. Jeong, (2005)...
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...service, platform, or site that focuses on building social networks among people, who share interests and activities. An online social network essentially consists of a representation of each user, often a profile, the social links of the user, and a variety of additional services. Most online social networks are web based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. An online social network is sometimes considered as a social network service. In a broader sense, online social network usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks. (Latest News and Information on Social Networking) The online social networks are very useful and convenient for communications among people as users can get contact through e-mail and instant messages. There are also some online games. Users may play together via the Internet connection and even make friends with strangers. However, has anyone ever thought that the negative impact of using online social networks would overshadow the positive impact of using them? Firstly, the problem is about the privacy of the users. The profile of the user is usually shared with the public at default. Even if...
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