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Showing posts with label internet use. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet use. Show all posts

Friday, March 13, 2020

South Africa - Online Review Landscape Survey 2020 (by Social Places, January 2020)

Title:
Online Review Landscape Survey 2020

By:
Social Places

Published:
BizCommunity, 22 January 2020

From the announcement:
"Social Places has released its first Annual Online Review Survey results, which show that South African consumers are well up to speed with their international counterparts regarding online reviews and local messaging."

To read the announcement:
https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/19/199718.html

To access the survey:
https://socialplaces.co.za/survey-results

Sunday, March 8, 2020

Digital 2020 Global Overview Report, publised 30 January 2020

Title:
Digital 2020: Global Digital Overview

Author:
Simon Kemp

Published:
Datareportal, 30 January 2020

From the overview:
"Our new Digital 2020 reports - publised in partnership with We Are Social and Hootsuite - show that digital, mobile, and social media have become an indispensable part of everyday life for people all over the world."

To read the Digital 2020 Global Overview Report:
https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2020-global-digital-overview

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Children's use of social media is creating a new type of digital native (A TechXplore article, 3 March 2020)

Title:
Children's use of social media is creating a new type of digital native

Author:
Shahla Ghobadi

Published:
TechXplore, 3 March 2020

From the article:
The first generation of people who have grown up using social media such as Facebook and Instagram are entering the workforce. For as long as this breed of so-called "digital natives" has been alive, some academics have been arguing that using the internet from a young age would shape the way people learn, work and even think.  

But it is still not clear how useful this kind of generational divide actually is, or how different these young people are to "digital immigrants" born in a pre-internet age. Some studies suggest what matters is not age but the level of experience and knowledge people have with a particular technology.

To read this article:
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-children-social-media-digital-native.html

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Short Article: Excessive internet use reduces study skills in students

Title:
Excessive internet use reduces study skills in students

Published:
daijiworld.com, 19 January 2020

From the article:
"Students who use digital technology excessively are less motivated to engage with their studies, and are more anxious about exam tests, according to a new research."

To read this article:
https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=664890