Tool, Toy, Telephone, Territory, or Treasure of Information: Elementary school students’ attitudes toward the Internet

Chou, Chien; Yu, Sen-Chi; Chen, Chao-Hsiu; Wu, Huan-Chueh

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.02.003

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“…However, when scrutinizing this framework, Chou et al (2009) found that some of the definitions for the Ts (such as the definitions of Technology and Tool) are not very clear-cut, that the concept of Tour/Travel is somewhat confusing, and that the framework lacks an important dimension of information resources. Chou et al (2009) therefore proposed a 5-T framework in which Tool, Toy, Telephone, Territory, and Treasure of Information are the five major constructs.…”

Section: Chinese Journal Of Communication 203mentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The Internet can serve as a Telephone, enabling users to communicate with others, and more and more people are using the Internet as a personal Territory in which to express themselves (e.g., blogging, Facebook, and online photos). Given its huge collection of online information, the Internet is definitely a Treasure of Information (Chou et al, 2009). In their subsequent study on college students' Internet-related attitudes, Chou, Yu, Chen, and Wu (2011) added a new dimension, Trade, to reflect the fact that more and more people have been buying and selling goods online.…”

Section: Chinese Journal Of Communication 203mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Chou et al (2009) therefore proposed a 5-T framework in which Tool, Toy, Telephone, Territory, and Treasure of Information are the five major constructs. In the 5-T framework, the Tool factor highlights that the Internet can help users perform various tasks (e.g., playing music and downloading files), and the Toy factor focuses on users' online-game playing.…”

Section: Chinese Journal Of Communication 203mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Chou et al (2009) employed the 5-T framework to investigate the Internet attitudes of 2,253 Taiwanese fifth graders and found that the most-recognized roles of the Internet are Tool, followed by Toy and then by Territory, Treasure of Information, and Telephone. The results indicate that the students perceived the Internet's Toy role as an important one and that they could not clearly distinguish the roles of Tool and Toy from each other.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Past research on Internet attitudes has focused only on a specific level of students: chiefly college students (e.g., Chou, Wu, & Chen, 2011;Duggan, Hess, Morgan, Kim, & Wilson, 2001;Durndell & Haag, 2002;Li & Kirkup, 2007;Liaw, 2002;Peng, Tsai, & Wu, 2006;Schumacher & Morahan-Martin, 2001;Torkzadeh & van Dyke, 2002;, with some studies on high school students (e.g., Tsai, 2006Tsai, , 2007Tsai & Lin, 2004;Tsai, Lin, & Tsai, 2001), and a few on children (e.g., Chou, Yu, Chen, & Wu, 2009). There is a lack of cross-sectional comparison; that is, little research compares the Internetrelated attitudes of different levels of students in a given time frame.…”

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Tool, toy, telephone, territory, trade, or treasure of information: a cross-sectional study of Taiwanese students' attitudes toward the Internet

Chou

Wu²,

Chen³

2013

Chinese Journal of Communication

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The purposes of this study are to investigate different levels of Taiwan students' attitudes toward the Internet according to a 6-T model, and to understand possible factors associated with differences among these attitudes. This study adopts a cross-sectional design to collect data from 1,700 surveys completed by Taiwanese fifth graders, eighth graders, 11 th graders, and college sophomores. Through a confirmatory factor analysis, this study validates the 6-T model and shows that it can help explain the six factors -Tool, Toy, Telephone, Territory, Trade, and Treasure of information -that are critical to Internet attitudes. This study found that the Tool and Toy factors yield the greatest recognition among Taiwan students, while the Trade factor seems to yield the least recognition among all grade groups. The results also indicate that as students grow older, they have increasingly positive attitudes toward the Internet. In addition, students' motivation to use the Internet and their weekend time-on-Internet can predict their attitudes toward the Internet. Implications of these results are also discussed.

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Section: Chinese Journal Of Communication 203mentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Chinese Journal Of Communication 203mentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Chinese Journal Of Communication 203mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tool, toy, telephone, territory, trade, or treasure of information: a cross-sectional study of Taiwanese students' attitudes toward the Internet

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2013

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Re-visiting Internet Addiction among Taiwanese Students: A Cross-Sectional Comparison of Students’ Expectations, Online Gaming, and Online Social Interaction

Lee

Chou

2014

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Using expectancy theory, this study aimed at identifying the attitudinal/behavioral factors that explain the relationship between Internet expectancies and Internet addiction among Taiwanese adolescents. A total of 25,573 students (49.8% boys and 50.2% girls) across junior and senior high schools participated in the study. The students reported on their background characteristics, general expectations from the Internet, attitudes toward online social interaction and online gaming, preferences in online social interaction, and dys-controlled online gaming behavior. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the indirect effects of Internet expectancies on Internet addiction through these attitudinal/behavioral factors. The results showed that Internet expectancies positively predicted students' attitudes toward online games and online social interaction, which in turn predicted their respective preferences or dys-controlled behavior and Internet addiction. The indirect effect of Internet expectancies was higher on Internet addiction via attitudes toward online gaming and dys-controlled online gaming than via attitudes toward and preferences of online social interaction. The indirect effects exhibited a larger impact on boys than on girls. The authors recommend that the expectancies of online gaming and social interaction be addressed in efforts to prevent and attenuate the severity of adolescent Internet addiction.

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The development of a general Internet attitudes scale

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Tool, Toy, Telephone, Territory, or Treasure of Information: Elementary school students’ attitudes toward the Internet

Cited by 25 publications

References 38 publications

Tool, toy, telephone, territory, trade, or treasure of information: a cross-sectional study of Taiwanese students' attitudes toward the Internet

Tool, toy, telephone, territory, trade, or treasure of information: a cross-sectional study of Taiwanese students' attitudes toward the Internet

Re-visiting Internet Addiction among Taiwanese Students: A Cross-Sectional Comparison of Students’ Expectations, Online Gaming, and Online Social Interaction

The development of a general Internet attitudes scale

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