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What is Computer Phobia

Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology
Associated with the anxiety about learning to use computers or not being able to learn to successfully use computers which is often used to basically mean avoidance or fear of learning the new skills required by increasing use of computers in the school or workplace.
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Computer Communication and ICT Attitude and Anxiety Among Higher Education Students
Nwachukwu Prince Ololube (NOVENA University Ogume, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch014
Abstract
This study integrates literature on computer anxiety and communication apprehension to determine their joint impact upon individual attitudes toward using computer communication (CC). This study introduces a new research domain and its application in identifying computer communication attitude and anxiety from a developing economy’s perspective. This study to the best of my knowledge breaks academic ground because it is a domain that has been under-researched in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study moves forward a new framework that places CC/ICTs attitude and anxiety as an assemblage between the more general framework on computer communication attitude and anxiety with which we are familiar.
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