An Exploration of Trend in Internet Usage and Perception of Information Credibility among Indian Post Graduate Students
Sandhya Rai
Accurate Institute of management & technology, Greater Noida, India
Keywords: Internet, Postgraduate students, Surf, E mail, Information, Random search, Wi-fi, Brad band.
Abstract
Internet services have become very popular worldwide and India is not different. Since its launch in the year 1995, India is the third largest country in the world in terms of number of internet users. There are lot many studies about the use of internet among the student community worldwide but not much had been studied about the internet usage and perception of information credibility among the Indian students. This study had been conducted to study it. Also the popular sources used by the Indian post graduate students for the search were studied. The research also tries to find out if there is any difference between the usage pattern of the internet in term of gender. The perception of the students towards the credibility of the information available on the internet had also been studied.