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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 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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Native language and Internet usage

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2006
This article explores the relationship between native language and use of the Internet. I study this issue empirically using a unique data set on Internet use at the individual level in Quebec. The results suggest that most Quebecois are using the web intensively in English.
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Forecasting Corporate Internet Usage on the Telecommunications IndustryForecasting Corporate Internet Usage on the Telecommunications Industry

2010
The mobile telecommunications are nowadays an instrument without whichthe majority of the civilized population can?t live. In Portugal there are three major mobile operators. In this work we usethe data of one of those operators, that was collected directly overweekly reports generated automatically by an Internet Proxy platform. Our interest is on the
Lorga da Silva, Ana, Rocha, Manuel, Silveira, Arley   +2 more
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Internet Usage, Human Capital and CO2 Emissions: A Global Perspective

Sustainability, 2021
Yubing Xu
exaly  

How Internet usage contributes to livelihood resilience of migrant peasant workers? Evidence from China

Journal of Rural Studies, 2022
Yuheng Li
exaly