Social Networking Websites from the Point of View of University Students: A Comparative Analysis

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Social Networking Websites from the Point of View of University Students: A Comparative Analysis

Original language description

The described research relates to the usage of social networking websites. The purpose of the research is to ascertain how university students from a range of European countries (Lithuania, Romania, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Turkey) use social networking websites; how they value them; what opinion they have about various social networking websites; what they know about them. The findings illustrated that the respondents knew a lot of social networking websites, with the most frequently visited and most popular being: You Tube, Facebook and Google+. The most important functions put forward by the university students were: communication, learning and exchanging information, texting. Gender differences were noted in the case of valuing social networking websites. The university students pointed out the following SN website advantages: the possibility to communicate with many people at one time, to get in touch with the people seen long ago also with the friends and relatives living abroad and the possibility to find proper information and share it, etc. and following disadvantages: lack of information publicity, a lack of privacy, insecurity in presented data, possible lies, deceptions, etc.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Problems of education in the 21st century

ISSN

1822-7864

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Volume of the periodical

57

Issue of the periodical within the volume

57

Country of publishing house

LT - LITHUANIA

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

61-78

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