Patterns of Internet Use and Information Overload Management in University Students
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Pattern of Internet Use, Information Overload Management, University StudentsAbstract
This study is an attempt to explore the patterns of internet use in university students and the ratio of information overload. Four hundred students are our sample, including one hundred each from Quaid-e-Azam University, International Islamic University, National University of Modern Languages, and Federal Urdu University Islamabad. The survey research design is applied. The findings show that the majority of students are suffering from Information Overload and the main reason is an extra-large amount of available data. It has been found that skilled patterns of internet use have a positive correlation while facilitated patterns of internet users have no correlation with information overload. It refers that more analytical studies are required. This problem will increase with the passage of time due to the day-to-day rapid increase in information.
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