Digitalization of media is one of the outcomes of technologic relations in the new world. Flourishing contemporary technologies in the society resulted in transferring a large part of traditional face-to-face communication to virtual communication. Therefore, such process breaks down traditional patterns of human connections and developing the size of online relationships. In addition, one of t...

In today’s information society internet usage and e-literacy become more and more important. However, inequalities in internet usage of different social groups become and stay observable. Here, especially elderly citizens, with an increasing share of population in western societies, are often included from benefits related to information technology and internet usage. One important aspect of lo...

World Wide Web (WWW) has huge number of Web pages with various types of information and has become one of the main resources of knowledge nowadays. Since more than two billion people currently use Internet and Social network Websites, therefore exploration of different effects of Internet usage on various aspects of life of these users is very essential for both business owners and academic adv...

As mobile devices rapidly proliferate and internet services expand concomitantly, a confluence of the two enables users to access the internet on their mobile-cellular devices for a variety of purposes. In this paper, we examine mobile adoption and mobile internet usage in 3,108 counties of the United States for e-entertainment and e-commerce purposes. Spatial patterns of mobile internet adopti...

World Wide Web (WWW) contains huge amount documents with various types of categories. Internet usage behaviors of users in Internet are one of the main research areas. Many Website classification schemes were present in literature based on different perspectives. For categorizing Websites based on its content, we used a classification scheme [1]. This investigation is the application of Web Usa...

The processes of globalization present opportunities and challenges for higher education learners. This process increasingly depends upon information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as the internet. Despite the fact that there have been frequently observed male/female differences in ICT usage, this has not received adequate explanations especially in higher education internet usage. ...

The present paper presents qualitative empirical evidence that addresses why internet usage/adoption is low and how it can be improved in small and mediumsized hotels in Malaysia. It explores the key barriers to and influencing factors of internet adoption in a sample of 25 Malaysian small and medium-sized hotels based on a theoretical framework of the organisational innovation and resourcebase...

Differences between light and heavy users of America Online are investigated using theoretical expectations derived from recent research on uses and gratifications theory. Measures of Internet-usage-process gratifications and Internet socialization gratifications were utilized to test for differences between light and heavy Internet users in the consumer market, and it was expected that heavy u...

The effects of Internet education on economic growth are examined using a cross-section of 36 high-income countries. Internet usage rates are employed as a proxy for Internet education across countries. Regression results show that the frequent usage of the Internet has a positive and significant effect on economic growth. The estimated growth effect of Internet skills is also found to be great...