A total of 135 students (males = 49, females = 86) with ages ranging from 18 to 41 years
(M = 21.97, SD = 3.87) participated in the study. Participants were students enrolled in
the subject Digital Media and Society in the final semester of 2010 and the first semester
of 2011 at Bond University, Australia. Although all the participants stated that they
were not technology resisters, 41% indicated that they were not technology users.
Furthermore, 48% of the students stated that they were not technology savvy, even
though a high percentage agreed that communication technologies have changed the
world economy (48%) and that communication technologies have changed the way
people think (40%). In addition, the majority (53%) of the students reported that they
used a computer of some kind all day, every day. The majority (56%) of the students
indicated that they were using an Internet-connected device on the day the
questionnaire was administered. The device of choice for the majority (37%) was a
mobile phone, followed closely by a laptop (36%). Regarding social networking sites,
most of the students reported that they had a Facebook account (75%), followed by a
Twitter account (34%), and finally by a Linkedin account (17%). A large percentage
(68%) of students did not prefer e-books to print books and the majority of the
participants (61%) had not read any e-books over the past year, even though only 13%
of the participants reported that they actively avoided e-books. The general reported
use of technologies and self-classification provide the wider context with which to
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