• DocumentCode
    2608074
  • Title

    Gender differences in the Internet usage among postgraduate students

  • Author

    Horvat, Jelena ; Oreski, Dijana ; Markic, Danijela

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Organ. & Inf., Univ. of Zagreb, Varazdin, Croatia
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    27-30 June 2011
  • Firstpage
    281
  • Lastpage
    286
  • Abstract
    Internet has changed the way individuals and institutions use computer in wide variety of activities. Researches and scientists, no matter the gender, have to be prepared to overcome the technological obstacles and find needed information for their work. The problem of gender disparity in Internet usage has received great interest among researchers. Most studies show that male users have advantage compared to female concerning the Internet usage. This study was carried out to investigate the gender disparity and attitudes toward the Internet usage among postgraduate students at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varazdin.
  • Keywords
    Internet; gender issues; Internet usage; gender disparity; postgraduate students; Internet attitude; Internet usage; gender differences; postgraduate students;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Technology Interfaces (ITI), Proceedings of the ITI 2011 33rd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dubrovnik
  • ISSN
    1330-1012
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-897-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1330-1012
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5974036