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Differential effects of occupation on Internet usage

Internet Research, 1998
Although there has been much publicity about the Internet, empirical research focusing on it is still relatively sparse. Most research on the Internet has been carried out in Europe or USA rather than Asia. This study examines the differential effects of occupation on Internet usage in an Asian country, namely, Singapore.
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Internet Usage Monitoring for Crime Detection

2010
Though Internet has huge contribution to Society’s development; In recent time Internet has been used by Criminals, Terrorists, and Hackers for mal-activities. Open environments for Internet access such as publicly used Internet cafe’s and university/school laboratories are becoming a platform for Criminals and newbie Crackers.
Sandeep A. Thorat, Samadhan R. Manore
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Potential determinants of heavier internet usage

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2000
Despite its uses, the Internet is liable to be abused. “Internet Addiction” is a newly proposed construct, derived form DSM-IV criteria for substance abuse. As a very recent phenomenon, excess internet use probably arises through pre-existing mechanisms.
Lynette Armstrong, James G. Phillips, Lauren L. Saling   +2 more
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Internet usage and ‘internet addiction’ in students and its implications for learning

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1999
The popular stereotypes surrounding various types of hacking and computing addiction (e.g. Turkle, 1995) indicate that ‘addicts’ tend to be socially unskilled male teenagers who have little or no social life and/or self-confidence. Recent surveys have confirmed that a vast majority of Internet users are in fact male. A survey by Pitkow and Kehoe (1996)
Mark Griffiths 0001, Hugh Miller, Terry Gillespie, Paul Sparrow   +3 more
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The Impact of Pathological Levels of Internet-Related Anxiety on Internet Usage

Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2012
This article compares the use of the Internet during the first year of university education of students who have pathological levels of Internet anxiety with those who do not. Two hundred and sixteen first year psychology students (females 184, males 32) were surveyed for their levels of Internet-related anxiety, from which 12 (5.6%) were identified as
Brosnan, Mark, Joiner, Richard, Gavin, Jeff, Crook, Charles, Maras, Pam, Guiller, Jane, Scott, Adrian   +6 more
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Crowdsourcing and its Impact on Future Internet Usage

itit, 2013
Abstract Crowdsourcing is an emerging service platform and business model in the Internet. In contrast to outsourcing where a job is performed by a designated contractor, with Crowdsourcing, jobs are outsourced to a large, anonymous crowd of workers, the so-called human cloud.
Phuoc Tran-Gia, Tobias Hoßfeld, Matthias Hartmann, Matthias Hirth   +3 more
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Shyness and Anxiety as Predictors of Patterns of Internet Usage

CyberPsychology & Behavior, 2002
The Internet has the potential to empower or isolate. Shyness and anxiety may potentially influence the extent to which people avail themselves of Internet services such as email, chat rooms, information searches, entertainment, and commerce. To understand how personality moderates Internet usage, 177 participants completed an Internet Use Survey, the ...
Marita Scealy, James G. Phillips, Roger Stevenson   +2 more
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Aligning internet usage with business priorities

Communications of the ACM, 2002
Regulating Internet activities so that targeted outcomes remain within acceptable limits.
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The influence of life satisfaction and well- being on attitude toward the internet, motivation for internet usage and internet usage behavior

Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics, 2015
AbstractThis study explores the influence of life satisfaction and well- being on attitude toward the internet, motivation for internet usage and internet usage behavior. Used the latest data on mass communications produced by the Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS) in which a total of 1,980 samples are analyzed.
Yuan-Cheng Chang, Chung-Lin Tsai, Wen-Yu Chiu   +2 more
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The Internet's (New) Usage Problems

English Today, 2016
In the previous issue of English Today, Lukač (2016) discusses the increasingly important role of online language authorities for users of the internet who are looking for usage advice. However, prescriptivism also reaches these users when they are not actively looking for it.
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