A survey of B.Ed.students perception and awareness towards cybercrime
Neetu spring · Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research · 2018
Cybercrime is a term used broadly to describe criminal activity in which computers or networks are a tool, a target or a place of criminal activity, this term is also used to include traditional crimes in teaching and learning, in which computers or internet is used to enable illicit activity. The use of internet is inevitable and of course one should face the risk factors attached to it. Hence, the perception and the awareness on cybercrime is very much needed for the learners as well as for teachers. Therefore, an attempt has been made to know the perception and awareness of B.Ed. students and to suggest its prevention. The purpose of this study is to protect them by providing empirical evidence from the policy makers in combating the attacks of the cybercrime and to suggest few precautions for its prevention. The study examines the relationship between perception and awareness of the students’ in respect to their gender and age. A field survey is conducted among 200 B.Ed. students from college of education in Lucknow District of Uttar Pradesh. A self structured questionnaire is used to perception that covers demographic information and seven most known cybercrime and a scale developed and validated by Dr. S. Raj Shekhar (2011), is used to find out the awareness towards the cybercrime. Percentile analysis , correlational analysis are done to test the hypotheses. In addition knowledge of prevention from cybercrime is given and the findings are 1) Male students are more aware and have affirmative insights than female,2) Students in the age group 18-23 years have lower perception and awareness than those aged 24 years and above . The study also provides the ways to prevent the B.Ed. students from cybercrime which will protect them reducing the high risk of becoming a victim.