Ict and Youth
ICT and Youth - The Case of Jordan Youth
Rawan Ahmed, Ala 'a Abo-Dooh, and Dr. Ibrahim Al-Oqily
Hashemite University, IT Faculty
ABSTRACT
Information and communications technology (ICT), is often used as an extended synonym for information technology (IT), but is usually a more general term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), intelligent building management systems and audio-visual systems in modern information technology. Therefore, The increasingly widespread use of information and communication technology must be viewed within the context of a much broader trend affecting the live of young people today. Young people are at the forefront of the technology revolution, which is the driving force behind the global emergence and evolution of the information- and knowledge-based society. Youth are often the leading innovators in the development, use and spread of ICT. This paper examines Jordanian youth engagement in public networks and considers how properties unique to such mediated environments like (persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audiences) affect the ways in which youth interact with one another. The goal is to identify ways in which information and communication technologies can be used creatively in our community. To this end, a survey has been conducted using the Facebook community as well as within regular people in the community. Detailed results are also presented.
1. iNTRODUCTION We live in the age of the Internet. The World Wide Web pervades every aspect of our life nowadays, and instant communication and social networking have made the world a much smaller and the web has the potential to become an incredible revenue-generating. Social network sites like MySpace and Facebook serve as “networked publics.” As with unmediated publics like parks and malls, youth use networked publics to gather, socialize with their peers,
Rawan Ahmed, Ala 'a Abo-Dooh, and Dr. Ibrahim Al-Oqily
Hashemite University, IT Faculty
ABSTRACT
Information and communications technology (ICT), is often used as an extended synonym for information technology (IT), but is usually a more general term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), intelligent building management systems and audio-visual systems in modern information technology. Therefore, The increasingly widespread use of information and communication technology must be viewed within the context of a much broader trend affecting the live of young people today. Young people are at the forefront of the technology revolution, which is the driving force behind the global emergence and evolution of the information- and knowledge-based society. Youth are often the leading innovators in the development, use and spread of ICT. This paper examines Jordanian youth engagement in public networks and considers how properties unique to such mediated environments like (persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audiences) affect the ways in which youth interact with one another. The goal is to identify ways in which information and communication technologies can be used creatively in our community. To this end, a survey has been conducted using the Facebook community as well as within regular people in the community. Detailed results are also presented.
1. iNTRODUCTION We live in the age of the Internet. The World Wide Web pervades every aspect of our life nowadays, and instant communication and social networking have made the world a much smaller and the web has the potential to become an incredible revenue-generating. Social network sites like MySpace and Facebook serve as “networked publics.” As with unmediated publics like parks and malls, youth use networked publics to gather, socialize with their peers,
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