1Research Scholar, Department of Education, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, India, Email id: bmaiti2@gmail.com
2Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, India, Email id: saritanand.edu@gmail.com
Online Published on 30 June, 2022.
Present study is an effort to find out the difference of internet uses among the youth studying in Arts, Science and Commerce streams in different colleges of West Bengal. Intending to investigate the fact meticulously investigator divided internet use into four categories- Educational use, Communicational use, Recreational use and Other Beneficial use. To proceed in this study the investigator formulated some null hypotheses and administered an internet usage questionnaire on 850 undergraduate students selected randomly from various colleges of southern part of West Bengal. The investigator applied ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis test on the 802 usable responses for testing the hypotheses. By the end of the study it was seen that youth studying in Arts, Science and Commerce streams in different colleges of West Bengal were significantly different from each other according to their Academic, Communicational, Recreational and Other Beneficial use of internet.
Educational use, Communicational use, Recreational use, Other Beneficial use, Stream
