Using Internet as Entertainment among Users Aged between 25 to 40 in Tehran

Dowran, Behzad; Ganji, Ahmad

doi:10.7508/ijcr.2008.03.005

Using Internet as Entertainment among Users Aged between 25 to 40 in Tehran

Authors

Behzad Dowran ¹

Ahmad Ganji ²

¹ Assistant professor and Head of Department of Information Society, Center for Scientific Documents

² M.A. in Social Research

10.7508/ijcr.2008.03.005

Abstract

This article is the report of research conducted to answer two main questions; first, to what extent and under which forms using internet as entertainment is prevalent among users aged between 24 to 40 years in Tehran? And second has this kind of usage changed with passage of time (since the beginning of usage until the time of research?
The research was designed and conducted with descriptive and qualitative method and the relevant data were gathered by using the techniques of deep interview with a sample (15 persons) of the statistical population of users (the first generation of internet users in Tehran). The findings show that using internet as entertainment among the sample is usual usages which include chatting, blogging, music downloading, browsing the webs containing pornographic materials and Orcat in terms of leaning order. The responses of interviewees show that after the passage of ten years, using internet as entertainment has significantly declined. Chatting, browsing the webs containing pornographic material and cybernetic searching in terms of learning order have been mentioned the usual forms in early periods of internet usage.

Keywords

a model of using Internet as entertainment

chat

cybernetic

first generation of users

Internet

pornographic material

weblog

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