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Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
The concept of social networking has received much attention from academia over the last decade in India. Widespread research has conceptualized the term social networking with almost all of the studies either conceptual or based on case studies. This paper is an attempt to clarify the construct of social networking by developing a reliable and valid questionnaire measuring social networking usage. 420 university students from 6 universities in Jammu and Kashmir were surveyed via a random sampling technique and factor analysis carried out on their responses. The findings revealed that social networking usage can be decomposed into four factors: academic; socialization; entertainment and informativeness. The internal consistency indices, Cronbach's alpha of social networking usage (α= .830) indicates good internal reliability. The findings revealed that the newly developed questionnaire has significant psychometric features.
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION, 2017
The usage of online social networks (OSN) in the last decade has changed the manner in which the individuals and especially the young people / students communicate with each other. The aim of our research paper, which is a part of a larger study, is to identify the manner in which the online social networks influence the communication process of the students from Sibiu and Alba Counties of Romania. The present marketing research is a quantitative one, based on a questionnaire that provides a clear insight on what are the main OSN used by the students and it shows how or if the students use the OSN to express their feelings and emotions. The research also shows the influence in the communication process between students and teachers, it points out the main reasons for using such a communication tool and activities undertaken by the students on their preferred OSN.
2012
The authors of this paper focus on communication via the Internet and define it as a modern social issue. Its aim is to provide a basic theoretical overview of the issues in question. They also bring their authors' research conducted on this topic in adolescents using the method of an electronically published questionnaire. The pa- per describes different perceptions of the characteristics of both personal and electronic communication among respondents according to the time spent on the Internet and according to whether they manipulate with their identity at the Internet. The authors also point to some of the characteristics of the Internet use and the possible pathological tendencies in adolescent respondents who are one of the most vulnerable groups in consequence of the daily use of the Internet.
This research report is about “The trend of using social media among MMU Students while discussing assignments”. The main objectives of conducting this research is to find out the different types of social media platforms used by MMU students when discussing assignments. This research is based on a survey of 45 respondents. Based on the research, it shows that the majority of our respondents like to use Facebook, Whatsapp and Skype while engaging discussion with their group mates. Besides, this report is also conducted to identify different purposes of using social media such as to share documents & files, to cope with current trend and so on. We also conducted this research to find identify problems that the students face such as inconsistent network, miscommunication. Furthermore, we also tried to come up with recommendations on ways to overcome the problems. Majority of the respondents suggested that applying tighter privacy settings could be the best way to avoid third party involvement which can eliminate the problems to a certain extend.
Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
The concept of social networking literacy emerged with the advent of Web 2.0. This study aims to develop a scale to measure the social networking literacy proficiencies of individuals. An item pool was created after a thorough review of the literature and taking experts views, and then application form prepared. The scale was applied to students of the Faculty of Education of Sakarya University, and reliability and validity analyses were conducted on the data gathered from 313 students, using the SPSS 20 statistical software. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to examine the construct validity of the scale, and the internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach’s Alpha) was used to examine the reliability of the scale. The analyses conducted showed that the scale consisted of 40 items under a single factor which explained 61.179% of the total variance, and the Cronbach’s Alpha value calculated to examine the reliability of the scale was .98. In conclusion, analyses conducted to ...
Jurnal Humanipreneur
The purpose of this study was to find out whether or not the use of social media by youth decreases social interaction with friends. This study used a quantitative method using a simple random sampling technique to take the sample. The subjects of this study were Business English Communication students from batches 2019, 2020, and 2021. This study has two variables, namely social media (X) and interaction with friends (Y). A questionnaire was used as the method for collecting data for this study. Two types of questionnaires: open-ended and closed-ended questionnaires, were used as the instruments and data collection techniques. Data analysis employed the normality test, linearity test, and t-test for testing hypotheses. Based on the questionnaire results, data analysis was conducted, and the results for the two variables ell into the high category. The t-test results showed that when the value of t-count exceeds t-table (7.722> 2.002), H0 is rejected. Thus, it can be said that ...
Journal of Management Information and Decision Sciences, 2021
This study aimed to discover the impact of social media platforms on students’ social interaction. Students’ interaction with other people allows them to analyse their thoughts, reflect on their experiences, and find solutions. Social interaction advances students’ learning ability and adaptation in society. It helps to shape their knowledge and social participation. At the same time, social media platforms allow students to connect, network, and communicate. This study applied quantitative research methodology using a questionnaire to determine the impact of social media platforms in facilitating students’ social interaction in their daily lives. The study findings empower students to understand that social media platforms promote social interaction, but it encourages physical distance among friends in a meeting or an event.
Social network is a platform for people share their ideals, to meet new friends and to reconnect with old friends. Social networking sites offer people new and varied ways to communicate via the internet, whether through their PC or their mobile phone. Examples include MySpace, Facebook, Skype etec. They allow people to easily and simply create their own online page or profile and to construct and display an online network of contacts, often called "friends". Users of these sites can communicate via their profile both with their "friends" and with people outside their list of contacts. With SNS it is easy to communicate with your classmate, discuss class assignment and even submit project to your lecturer, watch videos, make comment on your friend page etc. This study will focus on the effect of SNS on student academic performance, using GAU as a case study. What are student using SNS for, does it affect their studies, or help them to learn easily. This project will talk about the history of SNS, development and the users of SNS especially by student and lecturers in communicating with colleague and student as well. A 15 question personally administered questionnaire was designed and sent to about 50 students from different country and department in GAU.
Academia Engineering, 2024
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
Estudos Críticos em Organização do Conhecimento, 2024
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 2017
Rivista di psichiatria, 2021
Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2023
Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2008
European Archives of Oto-rhino-laryngology, 2011
Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 2009
JURNAL RISET GIZI, 2019
Serviço Social & Sociedade, 2021
Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 2002
Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2001
Future Generation Computer Systems, 2010