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Article: Data from National University provide new insights into computer-mediated communication.
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- Computer Weekly News
- Article date:
- September 3, 2009
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"This paper studied uneven Internet access amongst young people in Singapore. The study finds that young Singaporeans access the Internet mainly through home, school, borrowed, public, and mobile sources, with different implications for each type of Internet access," scientists writing in the Journal of Computer - Mediated Communication report.
"For those with home or mobile access, Internet use was routinised and often intense, even burdensome and distracting on occasions. For those who relied on borrowed, school, or public access, intermittent use appeared adequate but hampered their ability to hone online skills to the levels of their peers," wrote S.S. Lim ...