introduction: in the recent years, evaluation of websites has become one of the main organizational instruments for the relationship between provision of services for customers and beneficiaries. despite the high costs for design and implementation of websites, less attention has been paid to evaluation of these websites’ function. this might be due to the lack of appropriate instruments and fr...

This study examines the associations of internet information literacy with two variables: (1) the ability to work with technical aspects of the internet (internet skill), and (2) attitudes about the need for qualitative necessities in the development of e-services. A hierarchical regressions software analyzes data from a national sample of 2134 internet users. In this paper, internet literacy i...

Background: The internet has unique properties that include ease of access, ease of use, low cost, anonymity, and its attractiveness which resulted in problems such as internet addiction. Different statistics has been reported about internet addiction rate, but there is not a suitable estimation about the growth of Internet addiction in Iran. The aim of this study is to analyze the growth of In...

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the direct and indirect roles of psychiatric symptoms, social support, and meaning in life in predicting internet addiction among university students. Methods: The study was performed in a cross-sectional design by employing the path analysis to explore the model fitting. All the students at Kerman University of Medical Sciences constituted t...

The use of the Internet has increased in recent years remarkably. Companies employ the World Wide Web (WWW) to gather, disseminate and interchange information with actual and potential customers, and then Internet Technology seems to be served and applied as a strategic tool and affects strategies and practices of a firm such as Porter's competitive strategies. Many research findings confirm an...