Networking, Not Politics
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| Title: | Networking, Not Politics (ID: CSD4446) | |
| Author(s): | Rob Capriccioso (Inside Higher Ed) | |
| Topics: | Internet Use, Students, Surveys | |
| Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2005) | |
| Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | |
| Abstract: | A new study by an assistant professor of communications and sociology at Northwestern University attempts to identify what today's college students spend most of their time online doing. Based on her survey of more than 1,300 students at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Eszter Hargittai said that a number of common assumptions about students and the Internet turned out to be wrong. Most notably, the notion that college students follow politics online, and on blogs specifically, was not born out by Hargittai's study. Although about one-third of respondents said they have their own blogs, very few write about politics. Similarly small numbers of students visit political blogs. Social sites, on the other hand, draw considerable numbers of students. Fifty-one percent of respondents said they have visited MySpace, and 78 percent have visited Facebook. Students also reportedusing the Web for research, to download music, or to read news. | |
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