UTILIZATION AND CONSTRAINTS TO THE USE OF SPORTSRELATED WEBSITES AS SOURCE OF SPORTS INFORMATION AMONG HUMAN KINETICS STUDENTS, UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA
Journal Title: Academic Research International - Year 2012, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
One of the media for the dissemination of sports information is internet. Latest sports information are provided, stored and could be retrieved from the internet through sportsrelated websites by sports producers and consumers including students. A descriptive crosssectional survey design was employed to find out the utilization and constraints to the use of sports-related websites as source of sports information among Human Kinetics students, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Nigeria. Data were collected from the participants (N=57) using structured questionnaire. Percentage and chi-square (χ 2 ) were used for data analysis. Results showed that none (0.00%) of the students utilize football-related websites for football information; basketball-related websites for basketball information; cricket-related websites for cricket information; hockey-related websites for hockey information; volleyballrelated websites for volleyball information, and general sports websites for information on all sports. It was also found that majority of the students indicated that alternative media sources such as radio, television, newspapers and magazines (100.00%); lack of knowledge of sports websites (93.48%); lack of internet surfing skill (58.70%); far distance of cyber cafe/internet facility (69.57%); too much academic load (89.13%), and lack of time (80.43%) are constraints to their utilization of sports-related websites as source of sports information. In addition, gender, age, and year of study had no significant influence on the students' utilization of sport-related websites for sports information. Again, gender, age and year of study had no significant influence on majority of the constraints to students' use of sports-related websites
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Ifeanyichukwu Elendu, Athan Amasiatu
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