Teenagers' Internet Use in Urban: Differences, Factors and Their Relations Based on Samples from a City in Central China

  • Wang Ping ,
  • Yuan Zhenzhen
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  • School of Information Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001

Received date: 2016-10-13

  Revised date: 2016-12-22

  Online published: 2017-02-20

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] Juveniles have become the important group using Internet. The paper tries to find teenagers' Internet behavior' and their surroundings' differences.[Method/process] With the help of the questionnaire and SPSS, we made an investigation to the Internet using behavior of 1016 teenagers (ages between 6 to18, not including 18) and their parents who come from a provincial capital in central China.[Result/conclusion] We discover that at present stage, our country's urban juvenile Internet using time is enough, places are fixed, and the contents tend to be social media and entertainment. The network access and equipment are accessible. But the social support mainly referring to schools, libraries, and the government is insufficient. Its differences associated with factors of performance are as follows:juveniles' age and gender, their parents' education level and job nature, which have direct impact on their contents of using the Internet.

Cite this article

Wang Ping , Yuan Zhenzhen . Teenagers' Internet Use in Urban: Differences, Factors and Their Relations Based on Samples from a City in Central China[J]. Library and Information Service, 2017 , 61(4) : 90 -97 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2017.04.012

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