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Yongzhong Jiang; Dirgha Raj Joshi; Jeevan Khanal – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2024
University students' engagement in online activities can impact both internet addiction and academic performance. This research aims to investigate these effects among university students. Using data from the "China College Students Longitudinal Survey" conducted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences between 2013 and 2018, this study…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Mediated Communication, Influence of Technology, Addictive Behavior
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Bobbie L. Johannes; Selena E. Ortiz – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) proprietors strategically placed near college campuses and pervasive marketing on social media platforms, such as Facebook, are critical to the tobacco industry's effort to acquire new young adult users. Understanding the themes used on Facebook to promote ENDS products to college students is…
Descriptors: Social Media, Universities, Business, Merchandising
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Mayungbo, Olusegun; Akingbade, Retta; Ogunsanya, Oluwatomisin – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2022
Challenges relating to misuse and abuse of the internet and other mobile devices have become sources of concern among the youth population the world-over. However, research on cyber related issues has been focused mainly on adolescents in Nigeria. This study investigates the influence of cyber bullying, cyber victimization and pathological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication
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Mustafa Koc; Rabia Pala – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
Smartphones working like a computer are much more than just classic mobile or cell phones used to communicate as they offer all the possibilities of computer and internet technology in our palms. By means of features they have and new applications developed every day, smartphones are used for a wide variety of purposes including but not limited to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior
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Gönültas, Mesut – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2022
The study aimed to reveal the prevalence of cyber bullying and victimization among university students and to analyze whether levels of cyber bullying and victimization in students can be differentiated according to the level of problematic Internet use. Moreover, the study intended to examine the relationships between gender, year level, and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Victims, College Students
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Onat Kocabiyik, Oya – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2021
Since social media is a powerful information transfer and sharing tool in this modern world, it has become more used especially during the pandemic. It may be important to examine the use experiences of individuals in order to understand the impact of social media on individuals during the pandemic period. For this reason, the aim of the study is…
Descriptors: Social Media, COVID-19, Pandemics, Young Adults
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Nuuyoma, Vistolina; Mhlope, Nkosenhle Jermaine; Chihururu, Leonard – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
WhatsApp is the most popular networking site used by most university students for general purposes, and as a communication, collaborative and transactional tool in the teaching and learning process. However, experiences of its use among university students as an educational communication tool in low and resource-constrained settings have not been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Higher Education
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Kulikova, Tatyana I.; Maliy, Dmitriy V.; Stepanova, Natalia A.; Filippova, Svetlana A. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
Continuous surfing the Internet has become one of the students' lifestyle markers. Some modern researchers argue that as a result of long and regular Internet networking, young people sooner or later begin to experience psychological challenges. The analysis of international and Russian psychological studies on the issue of Internet communication…
Descriptors: Internet, Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, College Students
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Kesici, Ahmet; Tunç, Nazenin Fidan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study was carried out to investigate the digital addiction (DA) level of the university students according to their purposes for using digital tools. 527 students studying at the faculties of education of Erzincan, Dicle, and Siirt Universities participated this study in which general survey model was used. A form was used to reveal for which…
Descriptors: College Students, Addictive Behavior, Student Surveys, Internet
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Burak, Lydia – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
Although research evidence indicates that multitasking results in poorer learning and poorer performance, many students engage with text messaging, Facebook, internet searching, emailing, and instant messaging, while sitting in university classrooms. Research also suggests that multitasking may be related to risk behaviors. This study's purpose…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, College Students, Risk
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Ozcinar, Zehra – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2011
The Internet today, beyond being a source of information and communication, has become an "addiction" for some people. The rate of Internet addiction is rapidly increasing in the world. The aim of this study was to examine the extent of Internet addiction among adolescents in North Cyprus. Eight hundred and fifty-one participants between…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Internet
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2015-END 2015, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 27 to 29 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education