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Özgen Korkmaz; Hacer Çolak Kiliç – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2024
The aim of this study is to determine the digital literacy skills of secondary school students and their social media addictions and attitudes towards social media use. Descriptive survey model was used in the study. Convenient sampling method was used to determine the study group. The research was conducted on 327 volunteer middle school students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Digital Literacy, Social Media
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Sana Mairaj Bugti; Firdous Bugti; Pir Suhail Ahmed Sarhandi – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2023
Smartphone is the most wanted gadget of this era and smartphone addiction is the association with its use. This research aims to find the role of craving, social relationships, and overuse of smartphone as determinants of smartphone addiction and its influence on students' academic performance. This study uses purposive sampling (nonprobability)…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Addictive Behavior, Academic Achievement
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Nico Botha; Zyliekha Julie Matwadia – Perspectives in Education, 2023
A person's fear of not having a mobile phone on hand may inhibit certain aspects of a person's life. This study sought to investigate nomophobia (the irrational fear of not having access to mobile devices) as a possible mental disorder in the Gauteng education sector. To address nomophobia as a possible mental health disorder in Gauteng schools,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
Tuncay, Nazime; Bulut, Ayse – Online Submission, 2020
Social media is an unavoidable part of our life and its referred as an "integral" in many studies since it is compliment of life. Sometimes students' stay awake all night for playing social media games or they get overinvolved in the social media life that they forget their real-life responsibilities. Is social media an escape from real…
Descriptors: Sleep, Addictive Behavior, Social Media, Computer Use
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Stephens, Gregory – CEA Forum, 2016
This essay develops a theory of "digital liminality" as a way to analyze the role of technology in the classroom and in students' lives. It is also a report on the English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom as a site of intercultural exchange between instructors and Muslim students. The role of digital media in higher education was a…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Information Technology, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Zhang, Jie; Russo, Theresa J.; Fallon, Moira A. – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2015
As a part of a larger study, the purpose of this exploratory study was to assess college students' stress levels of using technology. Forty-four males (11.3%) and 345 females (88.5%) participated in the study by filling out an online survey voluntarily and anonymously. This was an exploratory survey of college students' feelings about technology,…
Descriptors: College Students, Stress Variables, Technology Uses in Education, Influence of Technology