NET NEWS READING HABIT AMONG ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE STUDENTS

Authors

  • Dr.N.Ramakrishnan Professor and Head, Dept. of Educational Technology, Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University, Chennai- 600 097, INDIA
  • Mrs. J.Johnsi Priya Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Measi College of Education, Choolai, Chennai, INDIA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v4.i9(SE).2016.2509

Keywords:

Net News, Reading habits, Arts and Science College students

Abstract [English]

Net news is more vivid and quick. It comes with audio video clippings. It is livelier than printed newspaper. Net news have galaxy of items to read on. It can be read anywhere and at any time provided one has android, windows or ios smart phones with net card or laptop with data card or dongle. News has a wide variety of things be it education, political, social, cultural, economy, entertainment and so on. Regular reading of news in net enhances the worldly knowledge of students. But how far our younger generations have developed the habit of reading net news is the question raised in our minds. Reading news in net would enhance the General Knowledge and current worldly affairs of a student.  Net news reading makes a man informative. Hence, the present topic has been chosen as Net news reading habits of Arts and Science College students. The study has used questionnaire for finding out net news reading habit among arts and science college students. The investigator has collected a sample of 200 arts and science college students from Madurai. The investigator has used stratified random sampling technique for the present study.  The findings of the study reveals that the arts and science college students 2% of them read daily,  8% of them read weekly once and  22% of them read monthly once and 68% of them read net news occasionally.

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Published

2016-09-30

How to Cite

Ramakrishnan, & Priya, J. (2016). NET NEWS READING HABIT AMONG ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE STUDENTS. International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH, 4(9(SE), 50–56. https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v4.i9(SE).2016.2509