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Self-Regulation of Internet Usage by Human Development Index

Abstract

Inocencia Marcojos

In this paper, the researchers used Complex Adaptive System (CAS) to identify the complex adaptive behaviour that are found between human development index and internet users. Specifically, the study determined the emergence of self-regulation of internet usage by human development index. It is also conceptualized in terms of the stabilizing factors of human development index on internet usage and self-regulated control of the use of internet. In order to get the synergy of interacting agents, the synergy calculator was used. A histogram of the frequencies versus the number of connections were drawn using the statistical software. The three clusters were identified and divided with equal frequency. The results show that a country’s regulatory approach to the Internet can have a massive and ubiquitous impact throughout the country. It merely indicates the actual fact that for a quick moving industry like the internet, it greatly depends on human development level of agents. The increasing internet use completely affects the HDI. The findings reveal that internet users with high self-regulation would provide less time to social network sites. Self-regulated internet users will control accessing for internet usage when they know that they could not get any benefit for using it. However, it additionally shows that majority of internet users were ambivalent towards regulating the extent of internet usage and because of this ambivalence to self-regulate there is a likelihood to the internet users to the urge to access connections of internet.