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The Internet : Internet influence-t-il l'emploi du temps des Canadiens?

29 Nov 2005

This includes cross-economy activities, such as the penetration and use of the Internet and electronic commerce, as well as industries in the Information and Communications Technologies sector, such as telecommunications, broadcasting and Internet services. [...] Although much work has been accomplished on the penetration and use of the Internet, this study uses data from the General Social Survey (GSS), Cycle 19: Time Use to better understand how personal use of the Internet fits in the day-to-day lives of Canadians. [...] Never before has this freedom and scope of interaction been available, and there is no question The next section reviews existing research on the that people - and the way in which they interact - relationships between Internet and time use have been changed by the use of the Internet. [...] These basic characteristics of the different groups are important since they help to explain differences The magnitude of the gap in time spent working in the general time use patterns observed for between heavy Internet users on the one hand, and Internet users and non-users. [...] Figure 1 shows that moderate and non-users on the other potentially the principal difference between the three groups is clouds the ability to discern less obvious that heavy Internet users spent considerably less relationships between Internet use and other uses of time working during the diary day than both time.
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Authors

Veenhof, B

ISBN
0662436938
Pages
27
Published in
Canada

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