Causal Relationships between Media/Social Media Use and Internet Literacy among College Students: Addressing the Effects of Social Skills and Gender Differences
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- YE Shaoyu
- University of Tsukuba
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- TOSHIMORI Atushi
- University of Tsukuba
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- HORITA Tatsuya
- Tohoku University
Description
<p>This study investigates the causal relationships between the electronic media/social media use of college students and their Internet literacy, addressing the effects of social skills and gender differences. We conducted a panel survey targeting Japanese college students and analyzed 107 responses. The following results were produced: (a) The college students in the study reported that they were able to make new friends using Twitter and Facebook and could communicate with strangers in this way; (b) for male students, improving their Internet literacy in relation to Facebook use helped them increase the frequency of their Facebook posts and improved their social skills; and (c) for female students, increasing the frequency of their Facebook posts helped to improve their Internet literacy.</p><p></p>
Journal
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- Educational technology research
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Educational technology research 40 (1), 61-70, 2018
Japan Society for Educational Technology
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390001205220115072
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- NII Article ID
- 130006565569
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- ISSN
- 21897751
- 03877434
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed