Addiction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Internet by the Bangladeshi University Students and Its Impact on Their Future

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Md. Mahbobor Rahaman 1,*

1. Dept. of Business Administration, Leading University, Ragib Nagor, Kamal Bazar, South Surma, Sylhet, Bangladesh

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2018.08.08

Received: 6 May 2018 / Revised: 11 Jun. 2018 / Accepted: 7 Jul. 2018 / Published: 8 Aug. 2018

Index Terms

ICT, Internet Addiction, Bangladesh, University, Students, Future Impact

Abstract

The world is going to be a universal digital village and from the flow of this digitalization Bangladesh also riding of the tide. The key points of these digitalization is young generations basically university students of Bangladesh. ICT and Internet is a new trend for this country that’s the main reasons to encompass this by opportunity by young students. Bangladeshi young generations have also addicted in the upper tier of this list. The addiction of ICT & internet is more on the young generations than any other parts of the people generally in the third world countries. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the excessive use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and internet by the university students in Bangladesh. The study had collected the data from 24 public and private universities in Bangladesh out of 135. The study was used the simple random sampling (SRS) for analyzing the sample size with IBM SPSS 23.

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Mahbobor Rahaman, "Addiction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Internet by the Bangladeshi University Students and Its Impact on Their Future", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), Vol.10, No.8, pp.56-68, 2018. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2018.08.08

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