Differences in Time and Duration of Internet usage among Male and Female Research Students
Keywords:
Internet, Research Students, PAU (Ludhiana)Abstract
The use of the Internet plays a major role in helping researchers’ access to a large number of materials from different parts of the globe. Researchers from all corners of the earth are finding that their work thrives in a networked environment. Immediate access to the work of colleagues and a virtual library of millions of volumes and thousands of papers afford them the capability to incorporate a huge amount of knowledge. It not only provides a number of services like email, file transfer, video conferencing, etc., but also facilitates 24x7 access to information from the comfort of one’s home or workplace, saving both the time and effort of researcher. Keeping in view the importance of internet in students’ life, the present research paper has been planned with the objectives; to work out the frequency of internet usage by research students; and to study the differences in time and duration of internet usage among male and female respondents. For the purpose of collection of the primary data needed for the present study, a questionnaire was structured for students.. The data from students were collected in the questionnaire through personal interview method. The collected data were analyzed by applying t-test, and Z-test. After analyzing the data, it was found that 73.48 percent of male respondents and 55.88 percent of female respondents used to surf internet daily. There were 64 (48.48%) male respondents and 14 (20.59%) female respondents who used to surf internet during night hours. The analysis revealed that very few female respondents used to access internet in late night hours. The average duration of surfing internet came out to be 2 hours in one go for both male as well as female respondents. The frequency score came out for surfing search engines in case of male respondents while it was for search engines in case of female respondents. The analysis indicated that the extent of time spent on different sites by male and female respondents was similar.
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