Effects of Internet Connectedness and Information Literacy on Quality of Life

Abstract

Internet connectedness, Information literacy, Quality of life (QoL),

Empirical Study towards the Drivers of Sustainable Economic Growth in EU-28 Countries

“…Madon [59] claimed the requirement to afford wider connectivity that would increase global information infrastructure and support positive changes in socio-economic development. Accordingly, Leung [60] reported a significant association between Internet connectedness and information literacy. Based on the evidence from 21 OECD countries over 1970-1990, Roller and Waverman [61] unveiled a significant positive causal link between investment in telecommunication infrastructure and subsequent economic performance.…”

Effects of ICT Connectedness, Permeability, Flexibility, and Negative Spillovers on Burnout and Job and Family Satisfaction

“…Partly because of the limitation of time-based measures (e.g., hours of Internet use per day), which ignore the importance of other contexts such as goals or functions, Jung et al (2001) developed a measure called the Internet connectedness index (ICI) based on media system dependency theory (Ball-Rokeach, 1998;Loges & Jung, 2001). The ICI encompasses a number of conventional measures, such as time and history, yet also goes beyond to capture the Internet's scope, goal, intensity, and centrality in a person's life Leung, 2010).…”

Using Electronic Media and Problems of Prophetic Communication Behavior at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta

“…Leung showed that there was a significant relationship between internet connectivity with information literacy and a strong relationship between information literacy and quality of life [17]. These findings encourage that the use of communication media has a positive impact on the quality of life of a person as long as the media is used with good intentions [8], [18]- [20].…”