Internet usage behaviors among young teenagers / Noraizan Amran, Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry, Norizan Anwar and Rosiah Abu Bakar

Internet usage behaviors among young teenagers / Noraizan Amran, Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry, Norizan Anwar and Rosiah Abu Bakar

This study identifies the Malaysian suburban young teenagers’ behavior on internet usage: types of information, online activities, and internet topic of interest. This study also investigates the relationship between gender and internet usage behavior. A set of 350 questionnaires have been dis...

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Main Authors: Saiful Bahry, Farrah Diana, Anwar, Norizan, Abu Bakar, Rosiah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Information Management 2013
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/8777/
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spelling uitm-87772019-03-18T07:31:35Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/8777/ Internet usage behaviors among young teenagers / Noraizan Amran, Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry, Norizan Anwar and Rosiah Abu Bakar Saiful Bahry, Farrah Diana Anwar, Norizan Abu Bakar, Rosiah This study identifies the Malaysian suburban young teenagers’ behavior on internet usage: types of information, online activities, and internet topic of interest. This study also investigates the relationship between gender and internet usage behavior. A set of 350 questionnaires have been distributed to a group of young teenagers’ age 11-12 years old in Year Six of primary schools in suburbs of Selangor. A total of 297 completed responses have been received and analyzed using Microsoft Excel and SPSS. The findings indicate that although young teenagers at suburban prefer to search entertainment information, do leisure activities and are interested in non-serious topic, most of the time, they still search information, do online activities and interested on educational information at other time. Further research can be conducted on information content preferences of young teenagers in other parts of Malaysia. Faculty of Information Management 2013 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/8777/1/AJ_NORAIZAN%20AMRAN%20JIKM%2013.pdf Saiful Bahry, Farrah Diana and Anwar, Norizan and Abu Bakar, Rosiah (2013) Internet usage behaviors among young teenagers / Noraizan Amran, Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry, Norizan Anwar and Rosiah Abu Bakar. Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM), 3 (1). pp. 51-62. ISSN ISSN:2231-8836 ; E-ISSN:2289-5337 https://ijikm.uitm.edu.my/
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description This study identifies the Malaysian suburban young teenagers’ behavior on internet usage: types of information, online activities, and internet topic of interest. This study also investigates the relationship between gender and internet usage behavior. A set of 350 questionnaires have been distributed to a group of young teenagers’ age 11-12 years old in Year Six of primary schools in suburbs of Selangor. A total of 297 completed responses have been received and analyzed using Microsoft Excel and SPSS. The findings indicate that although young teenagers at suburban prefer to search entertainment information, do leisure activities and are interested in non-serious topic, most of the time, they still search information, do online activities and interested on educational information at other time. Further research can be conducted on information content preferences of young teenagers in other parts of Malaysia.
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author Saiful Bahry, Farrah Diana
Anwar, Norizan
Abu Bakar, Rosiah
spellingShingle Saiful Bahry, Farrah Diana
Anwar, Norizan
Abu Bakar, Rosiah
Internet usage behaviors among young teenagers / Noraizan Amran, Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry, Norizan Anwar and Rosiah Abu Bakar
author_facet Saiful Bahry, Farrah Diana
Anwar, Norizan
Abu Bakar, Rosiah
author_sort Saiful Bahry, Farrah Diana
title Internet usage behaviors among young teenagers / Noraizan Amran, Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry, Norizan Anwar and Rosiah Abu Bakar
title_short Internet usage behaviors among young teenagers / Noraizan Amran, Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry, Norizan Anwar and Rosiah Abu Bakar
title_full Internet usage behaviors among young teenagers / Noraizan Amran, Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry, Norizan Anwar and Rosiah Abu Bakar
title_fullStr Internet usage behaviors among young teenagers / Noraizan Amran, Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry, Norizan Anwar and Rosiah Abu Bakar
title_full_unstemmed Internet usage behaviors among young teenagers / Noraizan Amran, Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry, Norizan Anwar and Rosiah Abu Bakar
title_sort internet usage behaviors among young teenagers / noraizan amran, farrah diana saiful bahry, norizan anwar and rosiah abu bakar
publisher Faculty of Information Management
publishDate 2013
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/8777/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/8777/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/8777/1/AJ_NORAIZAN%20AMRAN%20JIKM%2013.pdf
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