OPINIONS AND BEHAVIOR OF STUDENTS ABOUT ABUSE OF INTERNET IN SOCIAL INVOLVMENTS: GENDER ANALYSIS

  • Borislav Jošanov Visoka poslovna škola strukovnih studija Novi Sad
  • Andreja Pucihar Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj
  • Ivana Jošanov-Vrgović Fudbalska akademija, Beograd
  • Zoran Marošan Visoka poslovna škola strukovnih studija Novi Sad
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/skolbiz1-10537
Keywords: INTERNET, gender, social networks, WikiLeaks, abuse,

Abstract


New Internet technologies brought new gamma of interests worldwide.  In the focus of people are social networks, main usage and the abuse of Internet usage. Authors analyze the group of students in Higher School for Professional Business Studies in in Novi Sad, Serbia, and in Faculty of Organizational Sciences Kranj, Slovenia. In the focus of this research are opinions and behavior of students about social aspects of Internet general usage, and specificly opinions about social networks and WikiLeaks. This paper is the succesor of the sross-cultural research that was presented in this journal with the same data two years ago, but structured diferently, acording to the location where they were taken. Results of this research are analyzed and presented according to the gender of examinees.

 

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Published
2016/11/01
Issue
No. 1 (2016): Škola biznisa
Section
Original Scientific Paper
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