...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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...undeniable that the computer has become an essential gadget for daily lives of every human being. The Internet is an absolute necessity for both adults and children. It is impossible to believe to do anything without the Internet, especially from the youth’s perspective. Youths today spend too much time on the computer, surfing the Internet for hours. Some have become much too addicted and don’t realize that they actually suffer from Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD). Let’s have a look at how computers directly have effects upon youths nowadays. One of the main consequences of spending too much time on the computer that youths are likely to disregard is personal neglect. When one is too obsessed with surfing the Internet, they tend to pay no attention to their standard of living apart from the computer which they are using. Some may not take bath, clean their room, or eat well as they are much too focused on what they are doing virtually. Because of the long hours spent engaged with a computer, youths often have eating irregularities, such as skipping meals or overeating. This indirectly leads to health disorders, for instance, malnutrition of the youth’s body. Isolation, avoidance and no family bonding at all is another outcome which happens in a youth’s life when they get excessively addicted with the Internet. Because of spending too much time on the computer, youths have a propensity to reduce socializing with others. They tend to feel that computer is the only form...
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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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...ABSTRACT The internet usage among teenagers increase from last decade, increase in internet usage has effect teenagers 1) that teenagers boys use internet for playing games mostly violated games whereas girls use internet for shopping and for chat online 2) teenagers use internet for anonymous identity experimentation 3) internet cause isolation and depression among teenagers. This study is aimed to explore the relationship between teenager’s internet usage and face to face communication. This study also explores the desire of teenagers to face to face communication, and the relationship between loneliness and excessive internet usage. This is quantitative study and survey method will be used. After the survey results will show that is there any effect of internet on teenager’s face to face communication and effect on their peer relations. Key words: communication, internet, face to face communication, loneliness, teenagers. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Internet change the way people communicate with each other. In earlier days people use traditional means of communication like telegraph, letters, landline etc. now they ways of communication changed the world. Communication becomes faster and more accessible. Internet is one of them. People use internet for real time communication with friends, family and other relations. It seems that there is no single field that is not affected by internet.Chesebro and Bonsall (1989) argued that you talk to people through internet in the privacy...
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...students' social and academic development Dissertation Author: June Ahn Abstract: This dissertation examines the effects of social network sites on youth social and academic development. First, I provide a critical analysis of the extant research literature surrounding social network sites and youth. I merge scholarly thought in the areas of Internet studies, digital divides, social capital theory, psychological well-being, identity development, academic engagement, and educational technology to understand how researchers might examine new social technologies and youth. Second, I examine the question of digital divide, or whether particular teenage populations do not have access to online social networks. Using a nationally representative dataset from the Pew Internet & American Life study, I explore whether there are disparities in teenage access to social network sites. Third, I report a cluster-randomized trial that was designed to explore whether social network sites have a beneficial impact when used in high school classrooms. A total of 50 classrooms, and nearly 1,400 students were randomly assigned to use an experimental social network site. The results highlight the challenges and potential of this technology when applied to school contexts. iii Table of Contents Acknowledgements i i List of Tables i v Abstract v Chapter 1 : Introduction 1 Chapter 2: The Effect of Social Network Sites on Adolescents’ Social and Academic Development – Contemporary Issues and Research...
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...Running Head: INTERNET AND TEENAGERS The Use of Internet Creates Adverse Influence on Teenagers Tabassum Akhter 13304131 Sec: 08 Course: English 102 Date of Submission: 14th August 2013 BRAC University The Use of Internet Creates Adverse Influence on Teenagers On Christmas Day, 1990, in a lab at Cern in Geneva, Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee finished building the tools to create the World Wide Web (Krotoski, 2010). Twenty years ago, this act of releasing the technology for free had been a revolution. Twenty years later, this snowballing age cyber age – with Twitter, Facebook, Skype, YouTube, Google and a maze of other electronic avenues – has engulfed the lives of today’s youth, where playing out into the fields has been replaced by surfing over the internet. Researches show that 87% of the youth today go online, representing 21 million youth (Weiss, 2005). It has become a growing concern in the society, especially among the parents, about the cyberspace’s detrimental impacts upon the teenagers since it is concealed beneath the whitewashed faces of social media and other sites and generates addiction resulting in reduced efficiency of the students. Furthermore, it exposes them to the dangers of cyber bullying, and ruins the teenagers’ creativity and originality; not to mention, it also creates destructive impact upon family bonds. The creators of social media and other beguiling websites assert that the growth in the use of Internet is leading...
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...society * Social media plays a major part in the way today’s youth are growing up. Although it may have its benefits, it causes a huge negative impact in our society. Social media has drastically changed since it was introduced in 1979 when Usenet systems were first conceived by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, and even since Mark Zuckerberg created “Facebook” in 2004. Social media sites such as Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and Omegle expose today’s adolescence to things they shouldn’t be seeing, and it is as easy as logging in. The following paragraphs will talk about the three main negative effects that social media plays on youth today. These are; one, continuously putting users of Social Media, (and even the internet), in danger, two, damaging face to face socializing skills, and three, exposing our youth to explicit materials. * * Firstly, Social media poses many threats in today’s society. It is accessible from any Computer, Phone, Tablet or IPod with an internet connection. This means that it is easier for children as young as 8 or 9 to connect to a social media site. This in turn exposes them to nudity, swearing and the worst of all; pedophiles and rapists. Rheana Murray of New York Daily News stated that a whopping one in ten profiles online are fake (May 2013). This means that at least 10% or more of a child’s friends on Facebook could be phony. The Carly Ryan incident in 2006 proves that the internet is a very dangerous platform for children, teenagers and even adults...
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...recent technologies that focus on networking mass numbers of individuals into distinct communities over the Internet (O’Reilly, 2007). Social networking sites (SNS) are online communities designed to connect individuals to wider networks of relationships, and are one major example of Web 2.0 applications. Sites such as Facebook have exploded in membership. In a short period of 2007 – 2010, Facebook estimates that its membership has grown from 50 million to over 400 million users (Facebook, n.d.). Online social networks are now an integrated part of daily life and compel questions of how these media platforms affect human development, relationships, and interaction. Teenagers are among the most avid users of technology in general and social network sites in particular (Lenhart, Madden, Macgill, & Smith, 2007b). Recent reports find that youth spend nearly 10 hours per day using some form of technology, with socially networked media playing a large role in their daily lives (Rideout, Foehr, & Roberts, 2010). New technologies are deeply intertwined with adult perceptions about teenage life. Mimi Ito and colleagues observe that, “Although today’s questions about ‘kids these days’ have a familiar ring to them, the contemporary version is somewhat unusual in how strongly it equates generational identity with technology identity” The clear finding is that today’s youth are increasingly connected to the world through socially networked media. While teenagers are engaged with technology...
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...RESEARCH PROPOSAL A STUDY ON THE IMPACT AND ADDICTION BY USING THE TECH-GADGETS BY THE STUDENTS TO THEIR LEARNING PROCESS AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SHAHPUTRA: A STUDY ON COLLEGE STUDENTS CHAPTER I Introduction 1.0 Background of the Study The term technology comes from the Greek word “techne”, which means the art or skill used in order to solve a problem, improve a pre-existing solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an applied input/output relation or perform a specific function; technology is the making, modification, usage and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques and method of organisation (Liddel, Scott, Jones & McKenzie, 1940). That means, it can refer to the collection of tools, including machinery, modification, arrangements and procedures. Over the last 200 years there has been a significant change in the term technology. In the 20th century i.e. during the industrial revolution the term has gained its popularity worldwide (Cradock & Baldwin, 1833). Technology is the energy that acts as the driving force to drive or to run our lives. It is nothing but the results of the innovations and creativity of human beings. It converts the natural resources into consumer goods which are used by the society and human beings. It has brought the automation level into such a height that human effort and his time has been saved to a great extent. Due to this, the access to information has now become easier and the distant locations are getting closer. IT and communication...
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...might be good or bad. But what does social media mean? It is internet-based software and interfaces that allow individuals to interact with one another, exchanging details about their lives such as biographical data, professional information, personal photos and up-to-the-minute thoughts. Teenagers nowadays are very fond of using social media; they are engage in using different websites like twitter, facebook, youtube,google and many more. Social media has been part of our life for many young people today they use these things for them to communicate with their friends or to their families who are in abroad and to have entertainment. But sometimes they abuse use of social media that they forgot to balance their studies. In seeking this study I would be able to identify the good and bad effects of social media towards the study of the youth today; if this thing really helps to every individual to achieve their goals in life, help them to improve their academic grades and help them to motivate in their studies. Social media has been part of the life of the new generation today sometimes they use it just for fun ,and to escape boredom that they tend to forget the proper use of social media towards their studies. It is a big help to every youth but also it is the cause of destruction; they choose to focus on their online games, sites that they want to check or see, socializing with their friends or family, surfing the internet and many more. “A journey of a thousand sites begins with...
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...Austin Prunty Discussion 4 Is the linkage between news and citizen engagement broken? Can the Internet fix it? Explain. Youth are indifferent to news and politics today. Most of today’s youth are swept into over stimulated digital environments and try to earn a career and a living just like their parents before them did but don’t focus on things that do not directly affect their life like the newspaper. I believe that youth are indifferent to news and politics unless they are influenced through peers and media, family upbringing or if they are concerned with social change. Youth that are aware of news and politics at an early age may take an interest in them as a career choice or a desire to make a difference in society. Author David T. Z. Mindich believes that, “the linkage between an informed citizenry and political and civic engagement has been broken in contemporary society” (p.351). He also says that our democracy will pay the price for this. I believe the main reason behind the problem of lack of engagement is “some feel that the education system has failed to produce appropriate levels of civic knowledge” (p. 352). This is true in schools everywhere because most teachers are not allowed to share their personal views on their political position to students and therefore neglect to inform their students of the vital information about how to make their own educated political position. So the linkage between news and citizen engagement is broken because it was never...
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...Adolescent Sexuality and Modern Media ENG 122 August 5, 2012 Adolescent Sexuality and Modern Media Adolescents are greatly influenced negatively by media of today, whether that is adult television, music, or the World Wide Web. Our society is consumed by some form of media today, which could be the overabundance of reality shows on TV or by the use of Facebook which is exposing the youth to sexual content and innuendos. With the freedom of speech engraved into the United States Constitution, to ask that the media be regulated is almost impossible. Parents need to be held more accountable for what their children are exposed to, and if they are involved in some form of media that could be questionable, parents should have free resources available to assist in explaining the consequences of the negative behavior. Does today’s modern media truly have an effect on our adolescent girls and if so, in what ways. Girls from the ages of fourteen through 18 are doing unquestionable things today that you did not see in the ‘80’s. TV programming has taken an extreme jump from the simplicities of cartoons, comedies and sitcoms to the unregulated exposure of today’s reality, and its consequences. When one turns on the TV, channels that have been geared towards our younger generation, for example MTV and VH1, these channels initially consisted of music videos, have now turned into Pandora’s Box, with programming consisting of 16 & Pregnant, Jersey Shore, Basketball Wives...
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... syndicated radio programs, and the Internet has created a world where a fashion statement in Malaysia will be on the streets in a small town in a matter days. The speed of our telecommunication system has increased young customers' expectations and demands for products that represent their own cultural statement. My company, Phreak Starters will offer customers, in small towns and communities around Malaysia, the youth-oriented products and clothing that are popular nationwide but not available locally. The URL of the company web page is http://www.phreak-starters.com. The difference between Phreak Starters and other youth-oriented e-commerce websites is that Phreak Starters is focused only on its small-town customers. The target customer is a young person, who listens to alternative music and participates in youth sports. Our target customer will look toward alternative clothing trends in large urban areas as their inspiration. Communities of this size already have small youth-oriented businesses that Phreak Starters can utilize to promote its product line. The purpose to use the internet is to reach out to a wider and bigger audience. There is no doubt that print ads, television, and the radio are still the best means to reach out to people, but with the constant technological advancements more and more people are gaining Internet access. In fact, almost one-third of the world’s population has access to the Internet. Through Internet for marketing, we can reach more people...
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...Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION The globalization of culture – the effect upon culture of the “increasing connection of the world and its people” – is perhaps nowhere more visible than in the changing nature of the relationship between the world’s youth and their sense of identity (Solomon & Scuderi 2002:13). It has become commonplace to think of the world’s youth as that part of the community who are most receptive, or, alternatively, susceptible to, foreign cultural practices. If childhood means acceptance, and adulthood means conservatism, youth means rebelliousness. Youth are seen as the part of society that is most likely to engage in a process of Cultural borrowing that is disruptive of the reproduction of traditional cultural practices, from modes of dress to language, aesthetics and ideologies. From Japanese punk to Australian hip hop, youth subcultures are seen as being implicitly rebellious, born as much from a desire to reject the generation that went before them, as from an identification with what they have become. Exactly how accurate this widespread impression may be is difficult to assess. What is certain, however, is that the age of globalization, more than any other age before it, is an age that has both exerted great effects upon, and been greatly affected by, young people. Adolescents undergo the process of identity formation as one of their foremost development challenges. This paper addresses what role the mass media play in this...
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...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) noted that internet addiction...
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