<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/"><dcterms:title>Virtual Social Networks IV, October - November 2013</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/VPOEAY</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Butkevičienė, Eglė</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Balžekienė, Aistė</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Bartuškaitė, Miglė</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Morkevičius, Vaidas</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Šarkutė, Ligita</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Telešienė, Audronė</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Žvaliauskas, Giedrius</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2022-03-10</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2025-08-15T12:07:15Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>&lt;b>&lt;i>The purpose of the study&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: to analyse Lithuanian residents attitude towards virtual social networks, behaviour and intensity of involvement in networks.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: respondents were asked how often do they use the internet and when did they started using it. Respondents were asked if they belong to any like-minded group, organization or community that mainly interacts via internet. After a list of different means of internet use was presented, respondents were asked how often they use internet for those purposes. Respondents who visits electronic social networks were asked which social network they visit mostly. Further, it was analysed in what kink of activity they engage when visiting that electronic social network.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: gender, age, duration of education, education, employment status of the respondent and his / her husband / wife / permanent partner, profession (occupation), respondent's trade union membership, religion, participation in religious rites, political views, political and social activism, voting in the last Seimas elections, nationality, household size, respondent's average and total average monthly household income, marital status, place of residence, satisfaction with quality of life, change in living conditions, received social benefits, received financial support from abroad living relatives.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>internet</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>information society</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>internet use</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>social media</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>information and communications technology</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2013-11-14</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Butkevičienė, Eglė (Institute of Policy and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-5631-360X])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Vilčinskas, Vidas (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-9377-0458])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Burbienė, Diana (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-8435-090X])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:dateSubmitted>2013-12-18</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2013-10-05</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2013-11-14</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2013-10-05</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2013-11-14</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:relation>&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/VPN7LI " target="_blank"> Virtual Social Networks I, November 2010 - February 2011&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/JPQLGZ " target="_blank"> Virtual Social Networks II, November - December 2011&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/SQGRO3 " target="_blank"> Virtual Social Networks III, January - February 2013&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/MVTU5U " target="_blank"> Virtual Social Networks V, March - April 2015&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/TPSXMG " target="_blank"> Virtual Social Networks VI, October - December 2015&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Datasets of which data collection was conducted at the same time as of the study "Virtual Social Networks IV, October - November 2013" were carried out simultaneously: &lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/FQGGTT" target="_blank"> ISSP 2013: National Identity III, Lithuania, October - November 2013&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/B7X7ES" target="_blank"> Virtual Work I, October - November 2013&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/Q4PIQZ" target="_blank"> Social Policy IV, October - November 2013&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/HZU8KU" target="_blank"> The use of medication and food supplements II, October - November 2013&lt;/a>&lt;/p></dcterms:relation><dcterms:type>Survey data</dcterms:type><dcterms:spatial>Lithuania</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:rights>&lt;p>Duomenys yra prieinami LiDA Dataverse talpyklos vartotojams pagal &lt;a href="https://cc.lnb.lt/cc-by-sa" target="_blank">„Creative Commons“ 4.0 priskyrimo ir analogiško platinimo tarptautinės viešosios licencijos (CC BY-SA 4.0)&lt;/a> sąlygas, jei nenumatyta kitaip. Jei norima naudoti kitaip licencijuojamus duomenis, reikia kreiptis dėl galimybės naudotis konkrečiais duomenimis (raštu ar el. paštu: &lt;a href="mailto:data@ktu.lt">data@ktu.lt&lt;/a>). Nepriklausomai nuo prieigos prie duomenų apribojimų, visi norintieji gali peržiūrėti ir naudoti visų LiDA Dataverse talpykloje saugomų duomenų aprašus (metaduomenis, įskaitant lauko darbų vykdymo medžiagą, tyrimo instrumentus bei kitą su duomenų surinkimu susijusią informaciją) ir kitą informaciją pagal &lt;a href="https://cc.lnb.lt/cc-by-sa" target="_blank">„Creative Commons“ 4.0 priskyrimo ir analogiško platinimo tarptautinę viešąją licenciją (CC BY-SA 4.0)&lt;/a>.&lt;/p> 
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