Insights into the Culture of Young Internet Users

2017 ◽  
pp. 84-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Lichy ◽  
Maher Kachour
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Internet User ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
User Behaviour ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Information And Communication

This study focuses on the Internet user behaviour of young people, at a time when information and communication technologies (ICT) are rapidly transforming how individuals behave and interact in the online environment. The intention is to put forward a snapshot of contemporary Internet user behaviour, with reference to social networking, and thus provide an overview and understanding of the various online activities undertaken by Generation Y and Generation Z in a non-Anglophone context. The study uses a mixed methods approach to gather data on the thoughts, experiences and behaviours of young Internet users in order to explain their social networking. The findings suggest commonality and disparity between Generation Y and Generation Z. They also reveal the extent to which certain national differences are less apparent when using social networks, suggesting that the widespread adoption of Internet technology is generating a somewhat ‘standardised' Internet user behaviour.

Understanding the Culture of Young Internet Users in a Rapidly Changing Society

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Lichy ◽  
Maher Kachour
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Internet User ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
User Behaviour ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Information And Communication

The context of this study is Internet user behaviour among young people, at a time when information and communication technologies (ICT) are rapidly transforming how individuals behave in the online environment. The intention is to provide a snapshot of Internet user behaviour, with particular reference to social networking, in order to further our understanding of the various activities pursued by young Internet users in a non-Anglophone perspective. The study uses survey method to gather data on the thoughts, experiences and behaviours of young Internet users in order to explain their online routine activities. The findings reveal the extent to which certain national differences are indeed apparent when using the Internet, suggesting that the widespread adoption of Internet technology has not generated ‘standardised' Internet user behaviour.

MEDIA LITERASI BAGI DIGITAL NATIVES: PERSPEKTIF GENERASI Z DI JAKARTA

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Ranny Rastati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Depth Interview

In 2017 the majority of internet users are 19-34 years old or 49.52% (APJI, 2017). Almost half of the internet users in Indonesia are digital natives who were born after 1980: Generation Y (1980-1995) and Generation Z (1996-2009). This research will be focused on Generation Z as the true generation of the internet. Generation Z was born when the internet is available, a contrast to Generation Y who is still experiencing the transition of the internet. The purpose of this research is to find an effective way of providing information about media literacy to Generation Z. Through descriptive qualitative, the study was conducted with in-depth interview and observation toward 12 university students in Jakarta. The results showed that there are four effective ways of providing information about media literacy which is i) videos distributed to social media such as Youtube and Instagram, ii) interesting memes in communicative style, iii) through selebgram or micro-celebrity in Instagram who is consider as a role model and have a positive image, and iv) roadside billboards. Another interesting finding is that male informants tend to like media literacy information through videos and memes, while female informants prefer campaigns conducted by positive image selebgram and billboard. AbstrakPada tahun 2017 pengguna internet di Indonesia mayoritas berusia 19-34 tahun yaitu sebanyak 49,52% (APJI, 2017). Dari data tersebut terlihat bahwa hampir sebagian pengguna internet di Indonesia adalah digital natives atau penutur asli teknologi digital yaitu orang-orang yang lahir setelah tahun 1980: Generasi Y (1980-1995) dan Generasi Z (1996-2009). Penelitian ini akan difokuskan kepada Generasi Z karena mereka dianggap sebagai sebenar-benarnya generasi internet. Generasi Z lahir saat teknologi tersebut sudah tersedia, berbeda dengan Generasi Y yang masih mengalami transisi teknologi hingga menuju internet. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mencari tahu cara yang efektif dalam memberikan informasi mengenai media literasi kepada generasi Z. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan observasi dan wawancara mendalam. Informan berjumlah 12 orang mahasiswa di Jakarta. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada empat cara yang efektif dalam memberikan informasi mengenai media literasi yaitu i) video yang disebarkan ke media sosial seperti Youtube dan Instagram, ii) meme menarik dengan bahasa yang mudah dimengerti, iii) melalui selebgram yang menjadi panutan dan berimage positif, dan iv) papan iklan di pinggir jalan. Temuan menarik lainnya adalah informan laki-laki cenderung menyukai informasi media literasi melalui video dan meme yang disebarkan ke media sosial, sementara perempuan lebih menyukai kampanye yang dilakukan oleh selebgram berimage positif dan papan iklan.

CREATIVE APPROACHES TO THE TEACHING SOCIOHUMANITARIAN DISCIPLINES, IN THE TRAINING OF GENERATION “Z” REPRESENTATIVES

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Tatiana Kadlubovich ◽  
Darina Chernyak
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Everyday Reality ◽  
Independent Work

The article deals with the value orientations, attitudes, life views of modern students - representatives of Generation “Z”, for whom digital technologies are an everyday reality. The experience of working with students during class and independent work is given. The authors, based on the latest research, prove that the modern generation with its peculiarities needs new creative methods and teaching methods that will take into account the specifics of cognitive activity of modern youth, its values, needs, psychological characteristics and technical skills. It is necessary to change not only teaching and learning methods, but also the style of communication between the subjects of the educational process, the form of presentation of information, knowledge, preparation of a new type of educational and methodical literature, active use of information and communication technologies.

Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Communicative Practice ◽  
Political Contention ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Everyday Resistance

Over the past decades, waves of political contention involving the use of information and communication technologies have swept across the globe. The phenomenon stimulates the scholarship on digital communication technologies and contentious collective action to thrive as an exciting, relevant, but highly fragmentary and contested field with disciplinary boundaries. To advance the interdisciplinary understanding, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age outlines a communication-centered framework that articulates the intricate relationship between technology, communication, and contention. It further prods us to engage more critically with existing theories from communication, sociology, and political science on digital technologies and political movements. Given the theoretical endeavor, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age systematically explores, for the first time, the influence of mobile technology on political contention in China, the country with the world’s largest number of mobile and Internet users. Using first-hand in-depth interview and fieldwork data, it tracks the strategic choice of mobile phones as repertoires of contention, illustrates the effective mobilization of mobile communication on the basis of its strong and reciprocal social ties, and identifies the communicative practice of forwarding officially alleged “rumors” as a form of everyday resistance. Through this ground-breaking study, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age presents a nuanced portrayal of an emerging dynamics of contention—both its strengths and limitations—through the embedding of mobile communication into Chinese society and politics.

scholarly journals Adaptation of retired people to Internet environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-164
Author(s):  
O.A. Alekseeva ◽  
O.Y. Bestuzheva ◽  
O.N. Vershinskaya ◽  
E.E. Skvortsova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Audiovisual Communication ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Smart Things ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article presents the results of qualitative sociological research of information and communication technologies influence on social behavior and lifestyle of older Internet users conducted by a multidisciplinary group of the Laboratory of social and economic behavior of The Institute of Social and Economic Studies of Population, The Russian Academy of Sciences. The study involved Internet users of retirement age from 56 to 89 years. The survey was conducted by in-depth interview. The main changes in the life of the Internet users of the older generation were revealed and main characteristics of the new digital techno style of life were determined: use of new forms of textual, visual and audiovisual communication for interaction; obtaining cultural knowledge and necessary information; buying goods and services and paying bills from home; extensive use of state services online; the gradual move away from print media; using “smart” things. The analysis of respondents ‘ communication showed that older people can be divided into three groups: those for whom communication has become predominantly electronic; those who persistently prefer live communication, and those for whom electronic communication is additional to live communication.

Comparing hybrid media systems in the digital age: A theoretical framework for analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 540-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Mattoni ◽  
Diego Ceccobelli
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Media And Politics ◽  
National Differences ◽  
National Media ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between media and politics today is deeply entrenched in the wide use of information and communication technologies to the point that scholars speak about the emergence of hybrid media systems in which older and newer media logics combine. However, it is still unclear how the configuration of hybrid media systems changes across countries today, especially with regard to the interconnection between media and politics. In the article, we aim to develop a theoretical framework to capture such national differences. In so doing, we want to develop a heuristic device to understand whether the transformations brought about by information and communication technologies in the media and political realm also contribute to reshaping national media systems and to what extent. After outlining the main scope of the article in the ‘Introduction’ section, we discuss the theoretical framework that Hallin and Mancini developed to compare media systems across countries, and we present this framework’s main strengths and weaknesses when used as a tool for understanding the relationship between media and politics in the digital era. We then argue for the need for an updated and expanded version of such a theoretical framework: first, we update its four original dimensions (structure of media market, political parallelism, state intervention and journalistic professionalism) transversely including information and communication technologies–related indicators; second, we expand the original theoretical framework with one new dimension (grassroots participation) and the related indicators. In the ‘Conclusion’ section, we summarize our theoretical proposal and present some indicators and potential comparative data sources to assess similarities and differences of national media systems across countries. Finally, we also note two limitations of the article.

The WAVE Platform

2013 ◽  
pp. 267-282
Author(s):  
Deirdre Lee ◽  
Yojana Priya Menda ◽  
Vassilios Peristeras ◽  
David Price
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Information And Communication

The growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) offers governments advanced methods for providing services and governing their constituency. eGovernment research aims to provide the models, technologies, and tools for more effective and efficient public administration systems as well as more participatory decision processes. In particular, eParticipation opens up greater opportunities for consultation and dialogue between government and citizens. Many governments have embraced eParticipation by setting up websites that allow citizens to contribute and have their say on particular issues. Although these sites make use of some of the latest ICT and Web 2.0 technologies, the uptake and sustained usage by citizens is still relatively low. Additionally, when users do participate, there is the issue of how the numerous contributions can be effectively processed and analysed, to avoid the inevitable information overload created by thousands of unstructured comments. The WAVE platform addresses what the authors see as the main barriers to the uptake of eParticipation websites by adopting a holistic and sustained approach of engaging users to participate in public debates. The WAVE platform incorporates argument visualisation, social networking, and Web 2.0 techniques to facilitate users participating in structured visual debates in a community environment.

Gender Differences in the Technology’s Classic Models in Social Network Sites

2014 ◽  
pp. 126-142
Author(s):  
Begoña Peral-Peral ◽  
Ángel F. Villarejo-Ramos ◽  
Manuel J. Sánchez-Franco
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Acceptance Model

Social Network Sites (SNS) have very rapidly become part of the daily reality of Internet users in recent years. Firms also use social networks as a two-way communication with their current and potential customers. This exploratory work means to analyze if Internet users’ gender influences the behavior of using social networks. There is a reason for this. Despite Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) acceptance and use being more frequent in men, according to the previous literature, in line with different surveys on the subject, social networks are more used by women. The authors, therefore, analyze in this chapter if there are gender differences in the constructs of technology’s classic models, such as the TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) and the TPB (Theory of Planned Behavior). They use a sample of 1,460 university students.

Domestic vs. International E-Shopping

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-39
Author(s):  
Vaggelis Saprikis
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Mobile Industry ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Shed Light

Contemporary commerce is completely different as regards features some years ago. Nowadays, a considerable number of individuals and firms take advantage of the information and communication technologies and conduct transactions online. In particular, the mobile industry along with the broad use of social networks and improvements in the internet bandwidth worldwide has created a completely different business environment. Consequently, the technology incited many consumers to cross-border e-shopping, allowing access to a wider variety of products and services, and in numerous circumstances, access to cheaper goods. The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the perceptions internet users have towards e-shops focusing on Greece. More precisely, it aims to find out whether there are contingent differences on customers' perceptions regarding domestic vs. international e-shops, since a gradually augmented number of people have been expressing their preference on non-domestic e-stores for their purchases. Additionally, the chapter intends to shed light on the difficulty in understanding vital aspects of e-consumer behaviour.

Domestic vs. International E-Shopping

2021 ◽  
pp. 1819-1834
Author(s):  
Vaggelis Saprikis
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Mobile Industry ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Shed Light

Contemporary commerce is completely different as regards features some years ago. Nowadays, a considerable number of individuals and firms take advantage of the information and communication technologies and conduct transactions online. In particular, the mobile industry along with the broad use of social networks and improvements in the internet bandwidth worldwide has created a completely different business environment. Consequently, the technology incited many consumers to cross-border e-shopping, allowing access to a wider variety of products and services, and in numerous circumstances, access to cheaper goods. The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the perceptions internet users have towards e-shops focusing on Greece. More precisely, it aims to find out whether there are contingent differences on customers' perceptions regarding domestic vs. international e-shops, since a gradually augmented number of people have been expressing their preference on non-domestic e-stores for their purchases. Additionally, the chapter intends to shed light on the difficulty in understanding vital aspects of e-consumer behaviour.

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