Study the effects of internet on the students character building in shaheed benazir bhutto university, shaheed benazirabad | Nazish Jamali | Research Paper

STUDY THE EFFECTS OF INTERNET ON THE STUDENTS CHARACTER BUILDING IN SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHAHEED BENAZIRABAD

Author: Nazish Muhammad Chuttal Jamali

E-mail: nazishjamali008@gmail.com

Education:  B.Ed(Hons) at University: Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Shaheed Benazirabad

Village: Hassan Jamali, Nawabshah 

Study the effects of internet on the students character building in shaheed benazir bhutto university, shaheed benazirabad | Nazish Jamali | Research Paper

INTRODUCTION

Internet is known as a digital network which is used worldwide. It provides vast information together with communication provisions. It is made up of the interlinked networks which can be used for getting information or regulated the commands for communication by chatting and video calls. It is a platform which is mostly used in the world today, due to its limitless information on different subjects accessed by us. The internet and its uses perform a vital role in the lives of individuals, especially it is appreciated by the literate individuals in this 21st century (Ashley, S. 2019).

There are different available resources to get to the internet. With the progression of innovation, individuals would now be able to get to internet providers through their phones, play stations and different contraptions. There are huge quantities of internet providers suppliers and with the advancement and the wide spread use of internet electronic mail, individuals from the whole way across the globe meet up and correspondence has turned out to be a lot simpler than any time in recent memory. Messages as messages could be sent in any edge of the world inside portions of seconds (Sharma, N., & Sharma, R. M. 2019).

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

The internet has become a requirement to execute business periodical but has also come to be significant to all vocation, young and old. Schools anticipate students to have computers and even tablets for school work, and several employers expect job appliers to have basic knowledge of computers and their systems. We study, work, and socialize online approximate casual. This environs has made us dependent on internet technology from various literatures, content materials and comments which are available on different sites, researcher use them to investigate the proper solution of problem “effect of internet on student’s character building” which is faced by students by using internet ( Lawson, T., & Comber, C. 2000).The internet is a system of connected PCs which are situated at various focuses everywhere throughout the world that gives simple correspondence among people and associations regardless of where they are found. Similarly as the printing press of Gutenberg in the fifteenth century changed the historical backdrop of the world colossally, so has the creation of the internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The internet is the innovative approach to scatter data to a bigger populace of individuals in a progressively rapid and precise way (Berners-Lee, T., Dimitroyannis, D., Mallinckrodt, A. J., & McKay, S. 1994).

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

For the purpose of data collection researcher used the close ended questionnaire under the guidance of supervisor, where the statements were bounded with the close ended options, in order to collect the data from target sample, researcher designed  Likert scale questionnaire on the basis of five options included Strongly Agree (SA), Agree  (A), Undecided (UN), disagree (D), Strongly Disagree (SD). The second part of the questionnaire were designed as multiple choice questions (MCQ) where researcher mentioned multiple choice per statement.

The nature of this study was descriptive while it is quantitative in method.  Quantitative method stressed on the questionnaire or numerical data which can be gathered with the help of forms, questionnaires, or surveys. It emphasize on collecting the numerical data and take a broad view across the institution of male and female organizations of male and female in order to describe a particular phenomenon of the study.

Just before controlling the tool for data collection, researcher conducted a pilot study to ensure the validity and reliability of the tools and expert opinion was sought, in this connection item no 15, 14 and 25. The expert’s suggestion indicated the above mentioned item that needs to be rephrase. Before piloting, there were forty items in all and later the overall 36 items were chosen.

In the chapter of data analysis and interpretation, researcher analyzed the data with the help of frequencies and percentages which is represented in the tables and graphs. It is very important part of this research as it shows the result which is taken from respondents. This chapter is represented in three parts.

Part One:   In the part, demographic information such as academic qualifications, age, and gender is mentioned, in this way, that interpreted data is stated into four main sub-part with percentage, frequencies.

Part Two: In this part, analysis the students experiences for internet.

Part Three: This is the main part, in this the analysis of the responses in excel with auto formulas from respondent which are displayed in the graphs and tables.

HYPOTHESIS RESULT

1. There is no effects of internet on student’s education.

The above null hypothesis is rejected because it is found that there is negative effects of the internet on student’s education due to copy paste the plagiarized data instead of using creativity.

2. There is positive ethical values students adapted by the use of internet.

The second null hypothesis is also accepted because it is found that the internet has great positive effects on ethical values which students adapted by the use of internet

3. There is positive effect of internet on students social and mental development

The above null hypothesis is also accepted because it is found that most of students use internet for educational and entertainment purpose which has positive effects on students social and mental development.

4.There is no impact of internet on student’s daily activities.

The above null hypothesis is rejected because it is found that most of students use internet for longer time to connect at online cyber space.

5. There is no impact of internet on student’s health.

The above null hypothesis is rejected because it is found that the internet has badly impose the negative effects on student’s health.

6.There is positive change in behavior of students while using internet.

The above null hypothesis is rejected because it is found that students feel aggressive when suddenly their internet disconnected, it shows that there is deep impact on change in students behavior while using internet.

PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS

The information has been gathered from the students of three different departments i.e. English batch 18, BBA batch 16, and B.Ed.(Hons) batch 17 of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Shaheed Benazir Abad. The students of the different departments were chosen for the collection of information. Mostly of the students were studied in bachelor degree program while too low ratio were studied in master program. The age of students were between 18 to 30 years. Every one of the students were told about the motivation behind directing this investigation and demand has been taken before the accumulation of the information. The researcher likewise taken the assent of the respondents previously meet and conveyed that this is a scholarly examination and the information they are sharing would not be given to any outsider. The analyst likewise tells the respondents the advantages of this investigation. Every one of the respondents indicates appropriateness to take an interest in this investigation.

DATA ANALYSIS

After this dissertation and analysis the data, got the final results according to research analysis on the effect of internet on students, it shows the impression of the individual towards his or her activity on internet. Internet made our life very easy and simple, it provide us lot of benefits firstly it allows us communicate our concepts with others who may not know the reading or writing but can listen and watch. It can teach us in a creative way. Secondly it allows the students to learn at their own pace and interest. It allows the eLearning to students as can learn by watching lectures through the internet, but in today’s century lot of people use the internet negatively in which the students ratio is much higher than others.

From the above data analyzed it is clear that number of the young students access the internet from home every day for entertainment and social networking. If suddenly their internet disconnected they feel aggressive which impose negative impact on their health and personality. Most of the students are hunted by spending more hours on internet in front of screens which is new kind of smoking which impose negative effects on their mental as well as physical health such as depression, stress, fatigue problems, loose valuable sleep by late night posting, social isolated and hands, wrist, fingers, or eye strain problems are occurred . Most of students feel dependent on internet due to the environment and 50% of students have more friends on cyber space with them they still haven’t meet. Most of the students feel hesitation during the face to face communication, they easily communicate over the internet and feel hesitation during face to face communication. Students were strongly disagreed with the statement that they are not using the internet for visiting black websites where the material against the manners, religious and behavior. Mostly students use the internet for exchanging the pictures and personal private information throughout the social networking, sometime it creates the lot of problems for the students. Internet neglect the students books reading culture and visiting libraries, most of students use internet instead of reading books and they just do copy and paste the plagiarized material for the assignments, projects, and exams.

SUMMARY

Internet is the digital network which is used through overall the world with the help of connected networks.it provide the vast information to us but has both positive and negative effects. The positive effects of internet for student is that is useful for their educational purpose while negative effect is that the students learn inappropriate etiquette which can be harmful for the students as well as their social relations. This research is descriptive in nature and quantitative by method. Research design is the plan of conducting research, the researcher use the questionnaire for data collection which is designed as Likert scale and multiple choice questions (MCQs) tools for the data collection. The sample of this study were the students of the SBBU, SBA university, researcher select the three departments of the university and around 33 students were chosen from each department, such as33 students from education department, 34 students from English department and 33 students from BBA department. Researcher analyze the collected data in the frequencies and percentages which are displayed in the tables and graphs. Analyzed data shows that most of students access the internet from home for the educational purpose and for entertainment. The students spend loft of time on internet which becomes harmful for their health, and overuse internet can be effect on their social relations and behavior.

 CONCLUSION

In general, researcher analyzed the data with the help of frequencies and percentages which is represented in the tables and graphs. It is very important part of this quantitative research as it shows the result which is taken from respondents. Analyzed data showed that 80% respondents are studying in bachelor as their academic qualification, only 20% respondents are studying in Master Program. According to gender wise data, mostly male represented in more frequencies and in percentages, while, female students are less in frequency number. While most of the frequency of ages falls under 20-25 years, it means that the students of the surveyed population, the number of students are young and zero frequency falls under the age of 25-30 years.

From 100 respondents the highest ratio of students who access the internet everyday are 50% and 31% are those who use the internet several times for the day. It means most of the young generation addict internet every day for several times. The 85% of the students frequently use home to access the internet. The 38%. Of students of the SBBU University use the internet more than 4 hours. According to analyzed data, most of the students use the internet for entertainment (51%), use for academic purpose (50%) and 18% students use the internet for messaging and video calls and 12% use for downloading the music, videos, images, etc. 4% of them use the internet for black websites.

The students who use the internet for social networking their ratio is 43%, while 34% use the internet for entertainment and 39% students use the internet for educational websites. Students who mostly use the internet for educational purpose their ratio is 42% and 36% students use the internet for entertainment. Only 6% students who use the internet for religion. From the analyzed data only 15% of students who have their personal webpages. According to item wise analysis the number of students are strongly agreed that they feel aggressive when their internet disconnected, suddenly. The number of respondents were agreed that they notice positive change in themselves during watching online videos. Most of the students are disagreed with the statement that they not lost their behavior etiquettes, manners by overusing internet. The students who undecided with the statement that they feel easier to give ugly or worse words toward a person on cyber space. The frequency for disagreed and strongly disagreed is much higher, that after using internet, they notice that they behave badly in manners with family, friends or relatives. Sitting in front of screens is the new kind of smoking which impose bad effects on health such as backbone or neck pain problems occur. So, 36% students agreed, 44% disagreed and 20% undecided that they spend more hours on internet. The highest ratio of those students who disagreed that they involve in culture of selfies, propaganda, stress, comparison, depression which is growing faster online.

The highest ratio 26% of those students who agreed that they experience problems with hands, wrist, strain in fingers by doing too much keying on mobile and keyboards. According to analyzed data the highest ratio 33% of those students who agreed that they lose valuable sleep by late night posting on social accounts. From analyzed data the highest ratio of those students who get eye strain from staring at screens for long time, highest ratio of those students who are strongly agreed that they are feeling dependent on internet technology due to environment, the highest ratio of those students who agreed that they are feeling social isolated by overusing internet. From analyzed data 39% students agreed/ strongly agreed and 43% of those students who disagreed / strongly disagreed that they have those friends on cyber space with them they still not meet face to face. The highest ratio of those students who feel easier to communicate through cyber space instead of face to face communication. The highest ratio of those students who strongly disagreed that they believe that internet is safe for them personally and socially. The lowest ratio of those students who use the internet for visiting black websites where material is against the etiquettes, behavior, and character, religious and social relations. From analyzed data the highest ratio of those students who use the internet for exchanging pictures, private information, and personal chat everyday on social networking sites. Incognito is the tool for secret searching where history cannot be saved, so 28% students strongly disagreed and 23% disagreed to use incognito in browsers for nonessential internet use. From the analyzed data it is clear that 38% students are strongly agreed that they use the internet instead of reading books or visiting libraries for their academic purpose, 36% students agreed it that they use the internet to copy paste published plagiarized material for their assignments, homework, projects and tasks.

RECOMMENDATION FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

The researcher recommends the following:

Students should access the internet in limited times and avoid having computer games or internet connections in bedrooms. Students should not update their personal data on the internet, the personal of data will be harmful for students in case of cybercrime. Students should not over use the internet for entertainment. Students should need to visit libraries and read books instead of copy paste material from the internet which effects on their creativity. Students should behave wisely and need to be patience in anger and anxiety situation. Day to day the new questions about the research study are raised. So, for the better and further research there is still need for the further research of actual study. For new researchers every topic suggestion vast opinions, thoughts, views and ideas. The researcher tried her best performance as she can on this research project but yet there is a need of sort out status of some issues genuinely and deeply.