research on internet usage

Home broadband use over time. The share of U.S. adults with high-speed broadband service at home increased rapidly between 2000 and 2010. Even since that rapid growth, increasing shares of Americans have access to broadband internet. Today, eight-in-ten U.S. adults say they subscribe to a broadband internet service at home.

Excessive use of the Internet has both internal and external effects for users. The internal output is the psychological and emotional sector and personality problems that may arise, such as reduced psychological wellbeing for excessive users according to research findings.

This is evident from the results of research using the Internet for social media as much as 82 respondents or 68.33% answered always and 50 respondents or 41.67% answered frequently, use for ...

Internet use for higher education students is a way of life, and for some, it is even a problem. Previous research has identified Internet use effects on health, especially on mental and physical health. Our research indicated that Internet use has positive effects (promoting) or negative effects (threatening) on health among students.

In this paper, we aim to further examine the mechanisms through which internet usage may influence human cognition, particularly with regards to focusing on the recent findings around the impact of internet usage on attention and memory, due to the rapid and constant growth of research in these two areas. To do this, we build on the evidence ...

The Internet is a relatively recent invention, having been established in 1983, yet its reach has extended across the globe [].Over the past 2 decades, the world has seen a distinct increase in the number of people connected to the Internet (from 5 to 58.7%) [].Furthermore, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many in-person activities have been shifted to virtual Internet-based mediums.

1. Introduction. In recognition of the global public health and societal costs of problematic usage of the internet (PUI) [1, 2] and the need for networked research to address this challenge across different age groups, cultures and jurisdictions [3], the European Network for Problematic Usage of the Internet (EU-PUI) was established in 2018 under the EU COST Action initiative (Cost Action ...

Internet Addiction (IA) was originally conceptualised as having four primary diagnostic elements: (1) an increasing level of investment of resources in online activities, (2) a negative change in emotional states when offline, (3) a tolerance to the positive effects of Internet usage, and (4) denial that Internet use is a problem (Kandell, 1998).

Across the 32 nations surveyed, a median of 44% use the internet at least occasionally, either through smartphones or other devices. Comparatively, as of early 2014, 87% of adults in the U.S. use the internet, according to Pew Research Center studies. Internet Users More Likely to See Access to the Net as a Positive

As children spend more and more time on electronic devices and social networks, there is a growing concern about the influence that these activities may have on their development and social well-being. In this context, the present research is aimed at analysing the influence that Internet use may have on 6th grade primary school students' academic performance in Spain. In order to do so, we ...

Negative economic outcomes of Internet use. The negative outcomes of Internet use in the economic field often have to do with one's working or academic life and relate to education and employment in the corresponding fields model. On the one hand, (excessive) Internet use often leads to neglect of work and school duties (Spada Citation 2014), and, work pressure might well increase because of ...

Overall, the available evidence indicates that the Internet can produce both acute and sustained alterations in each of these areas of cognition, which may be reflected in changes in the brain. However, an emerging priority for future research is to determine the effects of extensive online media usage on cognitive development in youth, and ...

From Bangladesh's perspective, relatively little research has been done on how internet use affects students' academic achievement. The study (Said 2020) looked into how internet use affected academic achievement at the territory level of education in Bangladesh. A hybrid method, i.e., combining both quantitative and qualitative methodologies ...

The study compared the internet usage, the perceived relationship of self and internet, the demographic variables, the psychological problems and the social relation problems of 217 internet ...

Usage across different demographic groups 8 Premium Statistic Internet penetration rate worldwide 2024, by gender Basic Statistic Global age distribution of internet users 2022, by region

Half or fewer of adults ages 50 or older use social media in Poland, Germany, France, Hungary, the UK or Belgium. Roughly two-thirds or more of older adults use social media in Israel, Australia and South Korea. Social media usage among younger adults, on the other hand, ranges from 84% in the U.S. to 100% in Poland.

the student can better manage Internet usage, it will have a positive effect on the academic. performance of students. The r ole of the internet that allows acc ess to the e-book, search ...

In January 2024, the Chrome web browser was used by 64.41% of internet users worldwide. Next was Safari, which was used by 18.82% of users. Microsoft Edge was the 3rd most popular browser at 5.36%, and Firefox was 4th with 3.3%. The most popular web search engine is Google, with 91.47% of the market share.

41%. Percentage of teens with the highest social media use who rate their overall mental health as poor or very poor, compared with 23% of those with the lowest use. For example, 10% of the highest use group expressed suicidal intent or self-harm in the past 12 months compared with 5% of the lowest use group, and 17% of the highest users expressed poor body image compared with 6% of the lowest ...

Introduction. The increased access to portable internet capable devices has enabled us to spend more time using media. A recent study shows that 93% of 18 year-olds in the USA now own a smartphone and that 13-18 year-olds spend 8.39 h daily using screen media, which often includes using multiple screens or media simultaneously (Rideout et al., Citation 2022).

While research suggests that Internet usage can have a negative effect on adolescents' academic performance, social relationships, and emotional wellbeing, the Internet is also an important source of information for adolescents ; therefore healthy Internet usage should be recommended rather than limiting Internet usage time coercively.

Background: Numerous prior opinion papers, administrative electronic health record data studies, and cross-sectional surveys of telehealth during the pandemic have been published, but none have combined assessments of video visit success monitoring with longitudinal assessments of perceived challenges to the rapid adoption of video visits during the pandemic.

Among adults aged 50 to 64.9, regular internet users may experience a lower risk of dementia compared to non‐regular users, researchers discovered. "We found that regular users experienced ...

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INTRODUCTION. Over the last 15 years, the number of Internet users has increased by 1000%[], and at the same time, research on addictive Internet use has proliferated.Internet addiction has not yet been understood very well, and research on its etiology and natural history is still in its infancy[].Currently, it is estimated that between 0.8% of young individuals in Italy[] and 8.8% of Chinese ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to Indonesia's government for an internet service provider permit for its Starlink satellite unit, the communications ministry said on Thursday.

And Americans' use of the chatbot is ticking up: 23% of U.S. adults say they have ever used it, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in February, up from 18% in July 2023. The February survey also asked Americans about several ways they might use ChatGPT, including for workplace tasks, for learning and for fun.