Professional paper

HOW DO YOUNG ADULTS SPEND THEIR TIME ONLINE?

Jelena Šišara orcid.org/0000-0002-6499-0467 ; Veleučilište u Šibeniku, Šibenik, Hrvatska
Anastasia Neburac
Dan Vartic

Abstract

Nowadays, children and young adults have embraced new information technologies in large numbers. These younger age groups use Internet for many of their daily activities and they do it more than any other age group. Information and communication technologies (ICT) affect people’s everyday lives in so many ways. Mobile phones, tablets, netbooks, laptops and computers are just some of the devices used frequently, often daily, by a large proportion of the population and particularly by young people. So, in this article we will address the issue of young adult's (ages 18 - 25) dependence on gadgets, how do they spend their time online and what their preferences are. The objectives of this paper are: to examine the time spend by the young adults with their tech-devices, to analyze the purpose of following certain sites, to examine what tech-devices they are preferring. The research was conducted to evaluate and to compare the time spend by the young adults with their tech- devices between two countries, Romania and Croatia, in the period from 10 May to 15 May by online survey questionnaire on 136 students from Romania and Croatia.

Keywords

young adults, Internet, information tehnologies, gadgets, preferences.

Hrčak ID:

241616

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/241616

Publication date:

27.7.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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