5 research outputs found
Youth-culture or student-culture? The internet use intensity divide among university students and the consequences for academic performance
The effects of Internet use on the academic
performance of university students is usually analyzed
from a deterministic perspective that gives this technology
an immanently positive or negative role. In this
paper we consider the problem from an alternative
point of view. We analyze the actual Internet uses the
students engage in and the differences in these according
to the studentsā characteristics. We aim to explain
when spending more time on the Internet has a
positive and a negative effect on academic performance
and explain why usually a high usage time of internet
is correlated with a lower academic achievement
Youth-culture or student-culture? The internet use intensity divide among university students and the consequences for academic performance
The effects of Internet use on the academic
performance of university students is usually analyzed
from a deterministic perspective that gives this technology
an immanently positive or negative role. In this
paper we consider the problem from an alternative
point of view. We analyze the actual Internet uses the
students engage in and the differences in these according
to the studentsā characteristics. We aim to explain
when spending more time on the Internet has a
positive and a negative effect on academic performance
and explain why usually a high usage time of internet
is correlated with a lower academic achievement