Internetowa aktywność młodych dorosłych – raport z badań empirycznych
Internet activity of young adults – the empirical research report

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of empirical research on the Internet activity of young adults. New communication and information technologies affects almost every aspect of life. Young adults have had contact with cyberspace from an early age, which means, unlike the older gneration, the Internet is their natural living environment. Te main purpose of the analysis of the collected empirical material was to indicate the level of online activity of the respondents. This article is an attempt to examine the reletionship between the respondents' activity in the virtual space and their socio-demographic characteristic (age, gender, level of education, place of residence), the amount of time spent on the Internet, interest in politics, political views and participation in parliamentary elections. The research hypothesis is the assumption that young adults were characterized by low levels of Internet activity. The results of the study support the hypothesis and show that the respondents were characterized by low level of Internet activity. Moreover, there was a correlation between the time spent on the Internet, interest in politics, political views and participation in parliamentary elections. The surveyed group declaring that they use the Internet for more than 4 hours a day, able to define their own political views, participating in elections, and indicating that their interest in politics is high or very high was characterized by a higher level of online activity.

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