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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2013

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Problems of education in the 21st century

ISSN

1822-7864

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

57

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

57

Stát vydavatele periodika

LT - Litevská republika

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

61-78

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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