การใช้สารสนเทศบนเครือข่ายอินเทอร์เน็ตของนักศึกษาปริญญาตรี

Abstract

The research of Information Utilization on Internet by Undergraduate Students aimed to study the Internet usage of undergraduate students at Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya, Rattaphum College, focusing on the objective of using, language use, access methods, group of IT service on the Internet, problems found, and solution guideline. And, to compare study of students’ Internet utilization in each gender, background knowledge and studying program. The samples used were 231 students from all programs. The questionnaire was used as a research instrument.

The result revealed that most of students used the IT service on the Internet for their studies, entertainment, news, and email in both Thai and English, but Thai was used rather than English.  Most of the students use the Internet sources at the university, searching for information via World Wide Web, search engines and social networks.  The contents of the information were mainly about Sports and Health, Computer and Internet, Social Issues and Entertainment.  The main trouble found on using the information technology was from the users themselves. They had a limit of time, and lack of using skills.  Other problem was that the information was unreliable, over abundantly details; meanwhile some were limited in access.

The compare studied results revealed that the background knowledge was not affected on the Internet use. The gender and study program were also not affected on Internet use in aspect of the objective of using, language use, access methods. However, the difference between students’ gender and studying program affected on their internet utilization in different sources and information.