The rise of the electronic individual: A study of how young Swedish teenagers use and perceive Internet

Open Praxis vol. 9 issue 1

“…Amant, 2002;Sun, 2008;Sun, Rubin & Haridakis, 2009). Interpersonal motives for using the Internet include interpersonal utility (Papacharissi & Rubin, 2000), social utility (Kaye & Johnson, 2002), social or interpersonal interaction (Ebersole, 2000;Wolfradt & Doll, 2001), and chatting (Sjoberg, 1999). In our research we focus on text-based interaction, since the fact remains that text-based communication is still dominating the interaction on the Internet and text-based technologies are the most interactive.…”

Tool, toy, telephone, territory, trade, or treasure of information: a cross-sectional study of Taiwanese students' attitudes toward the Internet

“…According to research findings relevant to elementary school students' time allocation for online activities (e.g., Attewell, Suazo-Garcia, & Battle, 2003;Burnett & Wilkinson, 2005;Mumtaz, 2001;Sjo¨berg, 1999;Valcke, Schellens, van Keer, & Gerarts, 2007), children engage in varied online activities such as gathering schoolrelated information, gathering personal-interest information, chatting, emailing, and online gaming. Whereas most parents and teachers expect children to spend most of their time using the Internet as a tool for school-related learning, children prefer entertaining online activities; namely, gathering personal-interest information, 204 Chien Chou et al…”

“…chatting, emailing, and online gaming (Attewell et al, 2003;Burnett & Wilkinson, 2005;Mumtaz, 2001;Sjo¨berg, 1999).…”

“…Past researchers (e.g., Attewell et al, 2003;Buente & Robbin, 2008;Mumtaz, 2001, Sjo¨berg, 1999 all emphasized the importance of online information to students' Internet use. It is reasonable to expect that the Treasure of Information dimension would contribute largely, if not completely, to students' overall Internet-related attitudes.…”

From Family First to the FBI: Children, ideology and Cyberspace

“…Most of the critical commentary on children and Cyberspace tends to focus on how children actually behave in Children, Ideology and Cyberspace 241 cyberspace (see, e.g. Sjö berg, 1999;Valentine & Holloway, 2000), whether children are actually harmed by 'inappropriate' Internet content (Mitchell et al, 2003 (discussed further below), Carr, 2003) and whether the fear of online sexual predators is more moral panic than actuality (see, e.g. Potter & Potter, 2001).…”