Open AccessA STUDY TO EVALUATE SOCIO-CULTURAL IMPACT OF INTERNET ON THE POST GRADUATE STUDENTS
Author(s) -
A.J. Bharvad,
Meenu Gupta
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
towards excellence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0974-035X
DOI - 10.37867/te090201
Subject(s) - the internet , psychology , internet access , population , medical education , geography , sociology , demography , computer science , medicine , world wide web
This Paper deals with the study of the Extent of Internet Use and its Socio Cultural Impact on the Post Graduate Students of the Gujarat State. To know the Socio Cultural Impact of Internet, standardized opinionnaire (offline as well online) was used. The main objectives of the study were to evaluate the extent of Internet Utilization and to know the effect of independent variables like Gender, Academic Stream and frequency of Internet Access of Internet on the P.G. students who were using Internet since last two years or more than two years. Analysis of Variance was done to know the effect of independent variables and their interaction effects. The population of the study consisted of the P.G. students and the samples were taken from nine Universities of Gujarat (Zone wise). The finding of the study shows significant interactive influence between Gender, Academic Stream and Frequency of Internet Access on the Socio-Cultural impact of internet.