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Productive Or Life-Wasting : The Increasingly-Connected And Socially Networked Students

The internet has only been with us since the 1980s (Leiner et al: 32) and public mobile phones for about 40 years (Smith 2009). In a single lifetime this is a ‘while’ but in terms of human history and in the longer-term scopes of social science this is a very short time. In the geological perspectiv...

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Main Authors: Curnow, Alexander, Kaur, Gursheena, Eban, Nomelyn, Kara, Esat, Mirlanov, Eldiiar
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2014
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L Education (General)
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spelling my.unimas.ir.21142020-08-10T03:30:03Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/2114/ Productive Or Life-Wasting : The Increasingly-Connected And Socially Networked Students Curnow, Alexander Kaur, Gursheena Eban, Nomelyn Kara, Esat Mirlanov, Eldiiar L Education (General) The internet has only been with us since the 1980s (Leiner et al: 32) and public mobile phones for about 40 years (Smith 2009). In a single lifetime this is a ‘while’ but in terms of human history and in the longer-term scopes of social science this is a very short time. In the geological perspective of the age of the Earth, these technologies have been with us for less than a blink of an eye. This short time frame, no matter how many studies we have done and are doing on it, becomes crippling to social science study when it comes to proper perspective. Because we yet to empirically established an enduring conclusion on how the internet and other related modern gadgets are affecting us over our lifetimes. This is even more particular to the younger generation as most appeared to be hooked to these devices. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2014 Working Paper NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/2114/1/productive%2Bor%2Blife%2Bwasting%2528%2Babstract%2529.pdf Curnow, Alexander and Kaur, Gursheena and Eban, Nomelyn and Kara, Esat and Mirlanov, Eldiiar (2014) Productive Or Life-Wasting : The Increasingly-Connected And Socially Networked Students. [Working Paper]
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Curnow, Alexander
Kaur, Gursheena
Eban, Nomelyn
Kara, Esat
Mirlanov, Eldiiar
Productive Or Life-Wasting : The Increasingly-Connected And Socially Networked Students
description The internet has only been with us since the 1980s (Leiner et al: 32) and public mobile phones for about 40 years (Smith 2009). In a single lifetime this is a ‘while’ but in terms of human history and in the longer-term scopes of social science this is a very short time. In the geological perspective of the age of the Earth, these technologies have been with us for less than a blink of an eye. This short time frame, no matter how many studies we have done and are doing on it, becomes crippling to social science study when it comes to proper perspective. Because we yet to empirically established an enduring conclusion on how the internet and other related modern gadgets are affecting us over our lifetimes. This is even more particular to the younger generation as most appeared to be hooked to these devices.
format Working Paper
author Curnow, Alexander
Kaur, Gursheena
Eban, Nomelyn
Kara, Esat
Mirlanov, Eldiiar
author_facet Curnow, Alexander
Kaur, Gursheena
Eban, Nomelyn
Kara, Esat
Mirlanov, Eldiiar
author_sort Curnow, Alexander
title Productive Or Life-Wasting : The Increasingly-Connected And Socially Networked Students
title_short Productive Or Life-Wasting : The Increasingly-Connected And Socially Networked Students
title_full Productive Or Life-Wasting : The Increasingly-Connected And Socially Networked Students
title_fullStr Productive Or Life-Wasting : The Increasingly-Connected And Socially Networked Students
title_full_unstemmed Productive Or Life-Wasting : The Increasingly-Connected And Socially Networked Students
title_sort productive or life-wasting : the increasingly-connected and socially networked students
publisher Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
publishDate 2014
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/2114/1/productive%2Bor%2Blife%2Bwasting%2528%2Babstract%2529.pdf
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