Do You Mind NSA Affair? Does the Global Surveillance Disclosure Impact Our Students?
1. Dept. Social Learning
TU Graz June - 2013
Do You Mind NSA Affair?
Does the Global Surveillance Disclosure
Impact Our Students?
Martin Ebner
Walther Nagler
Martin Schön
2. Dept. Social Learning
TU Graz June - 2013
General Research Questions:
Which trends can be seen towards:
• Technical equipment
• Internet access at study home
• Communication behavior
• Useage of e-learning platforms (secondary school level)
• Web2.0 competence
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Study over 7 years (n=4994):
Term 2007/2008 n=578
Term 2008/2009 n=821
Term 2009/2010 n=757
Term 2010/2011 n=702
Term 2011/2012 n=632
Term 2012/2013 n=715
Term 2013/2014 n=789
11. Dept. Social Learning
TU Graz June - 2013
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Special Focus On:
NSA Affair
Affecting Freshmen Habits
12. Dept. Social Learning
TU Graz June - 2013
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• Did global surveillance disclosure changed
your behavior of Internet usage?
• 207 answers given (of 789)
• 20% of answers given states concrete changes
e.g. started using TOR, VPN for Internet access, stopped using social networks
• Few stated aspects of desperation / resignation
• Are there correlations between the answers
given and aspects of the general survey?
13. Dept. Social Learning
TU Graz June - 2013
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Correlation table according to NSA and significant variables
Pearson correlations matrix
Strong correlation between NSA and Linux users
(male, older; often or daily use Dropbox )
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Discussion and Conclusion
• Increase of mobile devices unbroken
• Mobile Internet as well increasing
• Cloud computing has arrived
• E-readers significantly upcoming
• Only distinct group of Internet user really
takes care about NSA affair according to
their Internet habits.
• Statements highly contradictory
15. Dept. Social Learning
TU Graz June - 2013
Information Technology Services
Graz University of Technology
Martin Ebner
martin.ebner@tugraz.at
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
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Dept. Social Learning