Paper Info
Title
Internet and Everyday Life: The Perceived Implications of Internet Use on Memory and Ability to Concentrate.
Abstract
The growing role of Internet in all aspects of everyday life has led to speculations over the impacts beyond the traditional questions of access or sociability. This in mind, the main focus in this article was to examine how Finns, for majority of whom Internet use has become commonplace activity, perceive the impacts of Internet use since first adopting the technology. In this study, we examine how Internet user history and perceived computer skills, along with different sociodemographic factors, appear to reflect on the perceived impacts of Internet adoption in terms of memory and ability to concentrate. According to the results, almost one in five of the respondents reported changes concerning their memory or ability to concentrate, with skilled computer users and nonworkers, in particular, perceiving the change. Factors such as age-related differences and exposure to potential information overload at work were identified to explain the perceived change. Our data were collected in a survey-gathering information on the everyday life and well-being of Finns. The sample consisted of 2000 Finnish speakers aged 15 to 64 years. The response rate was 46 percent (N = 908).
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1089/cyber.2012.0058
CYBERPSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
Field
DocType
Volume
Social psychology,Everyday life,Information overload,Psychology,Computer literacy,The Internet
Journal
16.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
2152-2715
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matti Näsi161.73
Leena Koivusilta200.34