Publication details
The using of and attitudes toward Internet and Information and Communication Technologies in different age groups
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The using of Internet and ICT in the society is very intensive. Many people used Internet and ICT also in home and in work environment. The using of these tools is in narrow contact with opinions and attitude toward them. In the academic and also laic society is able to observe the dividing of people into some groups according to their using of Internet and ICT. One of dividing says about Millenium Generation, where is the using of the Internet and ICT different from the others. The Millenium Generation are people which are born after the year of 1981. In our research is the main aim to compare using of Internet and ICT with the respect to two groups – Millenium generation and older people. The sample size was created by 266 respondents, with the age from 18 to 57. The questionnaire was in electronic form and it contained 73 items regarding to using of and attitudes toward Internet and ICT. The items regarding to attitudes were 5-point Likert type items and items regarding to using of Internet and ICT was multiple-choice from 2 to 5 possibilities of answer. The one part of questionnaire included demographic variables like gender, age, the ownership of PC, etc. The analysis of the data was focused on the finding differences in the using of Internet and ICT and on the basis of this, the methods of inductive statistic were used like Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). For the determination of reliability was used Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and for the determination of the construct validity was used the exploratory factor analysis. |