Issues and Lessons in Academic Issues and Lessons in Academic Internet Use among Korean Internet Use among Korean

collegianscollegians

Han Woo PARK, Ph.D.Han Woo PARK, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor

Department of Communication & Department of Communication & InformationInformation

YeungNam University, Korea (South)YeungNam University, Korea (South)hanpark@ynu.ac.krhanpark@ynu.ac.kr

http://www.hanpark.nethttp://www.hanpark.net  

•Work-in-progressWork-in-progress• Many thanks to research assistantsMany thanks to research assistants

Theoretical motivationsTheoretical motivationsPrevious studies focused on finding Previous studies focused on finding

significant differences significant differences between between learning outcomes in courses learning outcomes in courses using the Internet and courses using the Internet and courses taught with traditional delivery taught with traditional delivery methodsmethods

While the academic use of web While the academic use of web technologies among technologies among professional professional researchersresearchers and the methods by and the methods by which they access information, which they access information, scholarly community, services, scholarly community, services, and technologies have been and technologies have been analyzedanalyzed

Data collection: Data collection: Convenience samplingConvenience sampling

Respondents were recruited Respondents were recruited through through undergraduateundergraduate classes classes in South Koreain South Korea

The survey was conducted during The survey was conducted during June, 2008June, 2008. Of 238 students . Of 238 students who logged onto the survey, who logged onto the survey, 182 (76.47%) started answering 182 (76.47%) started answering but only 104 (but only 104 (57.14%57.14%) finished ) finished the survey. the survey.

After the deletion of unreliable After the deletion of unreliable answers, the study sample answers, the study sample comprised comprised 100100

Basic demographics of Basic demographics of participantsparticipants

Items Average S.D. Minimum

Maximum

Age 22.88 5.21 19 28

Internet experience

(years)

9.10(Median: 9)

1.67 4 13

Online qualitative survey:Online qualitative survey:Internet usage questionsInternet usage questions

1)1) academic information-seeking academic information-seeking practices in general practices in general

2)2) reasons reasons for using the Internet for for using the Internet for academic purposeacademic purpose

3)3) Internet usage patterns during Internet usage patterns during recent research projectrecent research project

4)4) credibility perception credibility perception of academic of academic information obtained on information obtained on cyberspacecyberspace

5)5) effective web technologies effective web technologies to to increase academic productivityincrease academic productivity

Analysis procedures:Analysis procedures:Semantic network and content Semantic network and content

analysisanalysis1)1) identifies identifies key words and major key words and major

issues issues represented in the represented in the responses based on word responses based on word frequency analysisfrequency analysis

2)2) displayed individual key words on displayed individual key words on the 2-dimentional map using social the 2-dimentional map using social network visualization network visualization techniquestechniques

3)3) complementary complementary content analysis content analysis enabled the collected responses to enabled the collected responses to be classified be classified

Questions

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5

100 times and more

Material(134)Search(121)Information(108)

Material(104)

Material(103)

Material(178)Information(115)

Internet(107)

50~99 times

Naver(77)Use(62)

Information(93)

Search(92)Project(54)Information(53)

Think(92)Internet(82)

Material(88)Information(67)Think(63)Use(63)

30~49 times

Website(45)Portal (41)In the case of(39)Blog(39)Gather(39)Café(39)Internet(37)

Search(47)Use(43)

Relatedness(45)Internet(42)Use(37)Website(32)

Person(35)Content(33)Credibility(30)

Internet lecture(46)Improve(37)Website(33)Academic performance(33)

20~29 times

Google(29)Need(28)Knowledge-iN(27)Use(26)

Naver(26)Method(26)Person(25)In the case of(23)Reason(23)Internet(22)Website(21)Convenience(21)

Collect(29)Recent(29)Content(28)Naver(28)Blog(26)Portal(23)Think(20)

In the case of(27)Word(26)Scholarly material(25)Search(24)Source(22)Website(20)Correct(20)

Search(29)Method(28)Person(24)Recommend(24)My(21)Relatedness(20)

10~19 times

Daum(18)Content(13)Majority(13)Keyword(13)Registration(12)Library(12)Ordinary(12)Person(12)Think(12)Encode(12)Search engine(11)Encyclopedia(10)Collect(10)Logging(10)

Think(19)Content(18)Method(17)Use(17)Time(17)Prefer(15)Book(15)Correct(14)Google(13)Knowledge iN(12)Knowledge(11)Majority(10)Vast(10)Portal(10)

Café(18)Find out(17)Need(16)Project(15)Partly(15)Summary(13)Knowledge-iN(13)Keyword(13)Use(11)Theme(11)Search engine(10)Encode(10)Reference(10)

Use(19)Reply(28)Knowledge-iN(17)Need(15)Knowledge(14)Naver(12)Credibility(36)Problem(11)Friend(11)Writings(10)Scholarly article(10)Work(10)Specialized(10)

Help(17)Study(17)Time(15)Café(15)Word(13)Library(12)Offline(12)Importance(11)In the case of(10)Naver(10)Blog(10)Correct(10)Suggest(10)Knowledge(10)Need(10)Take advantage of(10)

5~9 times

Search query(9)Yahoo(8)Words(7)Website(7)Image(7)Study(7)Search window(6)Service(6)Credibility(5)Specialized site(5)Specialized material(5)Video clip(5)

Simple(8)Library(8)Café(8)Scholarly article(7)Collect(7)Opinion(7)Gather(7)Share(6)Blog(6)Access(6)Keyword(6)Specialized(5)Computer(5)

Advertising(8)Google(8)Scholarly article(8)Class(8)Book(8)Search window(7)Library(7)Link(7)Daum(6)Search query(6)Media report(6)News(6)Image(6)Search result(5)Specialized(5)Portal(5)

Reference(9)Verification(7)Judge(7)Certainly(7)Library(6)Project(6)Vast(6)Method(6)Blog(6)Specialized site(6)Subjective(6)Book(6)Correct(5)

Reference(9)Share(8)Specialized site(8)Book(8)Class(7)Friend(7)Recommend(6)Source(6)Computer(6)Certainly(6)Study site(6)Knowledge-iN(5)Scholarly article(5)Credibility(5)

Item No. of students in question 2

Percentage

Convenience 51 38.64%Promptness 26 19.70%

Trustworthiness 11 8.33%Habituality 10 7.58%Correctness 8 6.06%

Vastness 8 6.06%Diversity 7 5.30%

Accessibility 4 3.03%Efficiency 4 3.03%

Scarcity and uniqueness 2 1.52%Other 1 0.76%Sum 132 100%

Reasons for academic Reasons for academic Internet use Internet use

Academic use of web Academic use of web technologies for scholarly technologies for scholarly purposespurposesResearch Process No. of students in question 1 No. of students in question 3

Choosing the Research Topic

1 (0.81%)

2(1.71%)

Background Information89

(72.36%)80

(68.38%)

Literature Review27

(21.95%)17

(14.53%)

Data Collection0

(0.00%)15

(12.82%)

Data Analysis0

(0.00%)0

(0.00%)

Writing up5

(4.07%)2

(1.71%)

Sum 123 117

Credibility perceptions on Credibility perceptions on online academic online academic

informationinformationComponents of

perceived credibilityin question four

Trustworthiness

Insufficient Sufficient

Expertness

Insufficient25

(25%)31

(31%)

Sufficient24

(24%)15

(15%)

Discussion and policy Discussion and policy implicationsimplications

- Public policy to promote Public policy to promote a more a more nuanced/advanced Internet use nuanced/advanced Internet use in in terms of site selection and e-terms of site selection and e-research practicesresearch practices

- The lack of The lack of academic list servicesacademic list services- A A longitudinal survey longitudinal survey using using

repeated cross-sectional datarepeated cross-sectional data- More investigation about More investigation about possible possible

determinantsdeterminants to facilitate scholarly to facilitate scholarly Internet useInternet use