INVESTIGATION OF INTERNET PURPOSES USAGE AMONG UNIVERSITIES IN SULAIMANI CITY

Year 2016, Volume: 5 , 339 - 363, 01.09.2016

Miran Hikmat Mohammed Baban Mahdi Mohammed Younis

Abstract

These
days the demand of using Internet connections becomes one of the main important
aspects among individuals. Also, this need is not bounded by people daily uses,
but it includes the different organizations such as educational, governmental
and private sectors. Also, there are different ideas of using the internet, for
example, some people may use it for online communications, online
entertainment, and reading the news. Moreover, some others use it for learning
aims by some educational organization, especially universities. However, there
is some complaining by the government on bad using Internet services by their
users. Sometimes, users, when they use the Internet, may forget some important
points and fact about their using, which is using it in a way will result in a
bad way on their users. For instance, some website may contain videos or images
may have unwanted affection on users. Thus, they may lose their important time
for a reason that not useful, and sometimes students may consume their time and
forget their assignment and their concentration on their study. Furthermore, some
other group may use the Internet for social networking and this website
sometimes may lead to a problem in between people. Therefore; these levels that
are comprised of this research should have sensitivity with time using and
using while thinking in behaving.Moreover, these demands of using the internet
are different from one university level to another level based on their needs
and their uses. Even in each group their individuals may use the internet in a
different way, for example, some may use it for entertainment. Moreover, some
other may use it for general purposes, and there are some other groups use the
internet for academicals purposes. Moreover, this research is showing how the
Internet may affect their users at different levels of their academicals
thinking. Also, there is a survey done on groups that are specified only or
limited to the university members’ students, employees, and lecturers.

Keywords

Online survey, internet purpose, data analysis, internet usage, internet addiction

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