Impact of Smartphone Among Postgraduate Students of Manipur University: A Study
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2022-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
The present study attempted to explore the use of smartphones by Postgraduate students of Manipur
University. It is found that the majority of the respondents i.e 73.91% belong to female users and
male students accounted for 26.08%, and 88.04% of the respondents belong to the age group of 21-
25. Android OS is the most used operating software among the respondents. In general, respondents
use smartphones for messaging (93.47%), Internet Browsing (91.30%), Calling (Phone calls, Skype,
Viber, and etc.) (84.78%), Checking social media accounts(82.60). The academic purposes of
smartphones as revealed by students include, to download class materials (93.47%), joining Online
classes(89.13%), reading (86.95%), Up/Download Learning Materials (82.60%), to interact with
friends and faculty (78.26%), to prepare Assignments (73.91%), to login to the student portal
(67.39%), to share academic websites and links (65.21%) etc. applications (Apps) commonly
installed include Pdf reader (88.04%), followed by Dictionary apps (67.39%), in the mean time,
Applications for learning activities account for only 8.69% and Online class softwares (google
meet, zoom) account for only 2.17%.
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13th International CALIBER-2022, BHU, Varanasi, UP, 17-19 November 2022
Keywords
ICT Applications, Smartphones, Manipur University, Apps-Mobile