Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition
Toward an epistemology of Wikipedia
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Internet use and multitasking among older adolescents: An experience sampling approach
Computers in Human Behavior
Making sense of multitasking: Key behaviours
Computers & Education
Dynamics of email communications among university students throughout a semester
Computers & Education
Making sense of multitasking: The role of Facebook
Computers & Education
Video-sharing educational tool applied to the teaching in renewable energy subjects
Computers & Education
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This paper reports on a five-year study (2005-2009) of biomedical students' on-campus use of the Internet. Internet usage logs were used to investigate students' sessional use of key websites and technologies. The most frequented sites and technologies included the university's learning management system, Google, email and Facebook. Email was the primary method of electronic communication. However, its use declined over time, with a steep drop in use during 2006 and 2007 appearing to correspond with the rapid uptake of the social networking site Facebook. Both Google and Wikipedia gained in popularity over time while the use of other key information sources, including the library and biomedical portals, remained low throughout the study. With the notable exception of Facebook, most 'Web 2.0' technologies attracted little use. The 'Net Generation' students involved in this study were heavy users of generalist information retrieval tools and key online university services, and prefered to use externally hosted tools for online communication. These and other findings have important implications for the selection and provision of services by universities.