the purpose of this study was to determine computer and internet use in agricultural extension by extension workers (ews). this study used a descriptive-correlational design.population for the study consisted of all extension workers (n= 320) in isfahan province, iran. a stratified sampling technique and census was used to select ews (n = 200). overall, findings indicate that ews have access to...

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...

This study examined the impacts of perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), and perceived Internet content (PIC) on students' usage of the Internet. Additionally, it investigated the impacts of these variables on usage of the Internet as moderated by gender, educational background, income, computer users' classification, and self-reported measure of computer knowledge. We modifi...

the objective of the paper is to analyzethe impact of gender on media usage, and the preference and precedence given to various types of this media and their contents, in iranian society. most of the relevant studies concentrate on representation, reception analysis and on the norms of women’s favorite genres. in general, gender plays a determining role in the use of different media sources and...

BACKGROUND The internet is a relatively new medium of disseminating health information. Studies on Internet usage for health information are mainly done in developed countries and very few studies have been carried out in developing countries. METHODS The Internet usage of patients who were attending specialist clinics in Teaching Hospital Karapitiya and Southern Hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka ...

OBJECTIVES To determine doctors' reasons for using the Internet, and the factors that influence their usage. DATA SOURCES A systematic review of 38 studies, from 1994 to 2004, describing surveys of doctors' Internet usage. RESULTS All of the studies were in the developed world, primarily in North America. Approximately 60-70% of doctors have access to the Internet, but in several studies ac...

D the widespread adoption of search and recommendation technologies on the Internet, empirical research that examines the effect of these technologies is scarce. How do online consumers use these technologies? Does consumers’ technology usage have an effect on the sales to them or their purchasing patterns? This paper empirically measures consumers’ usage of website technologies by analyzing se...

Software development methods are shifting towards faster deployments and closer to the end users. Their ever tighter engagement of end-users also requires new technologies for gathering feedback from those users. At the same time, widespread Internet connectivity of different application environments is enabling the collection of this post-deployment data also from sources other than traditiona...