Use of Social Networking Sites Among Shinas College of Technology Students in Oman

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 1250002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salim Said Ali Al kindi ◽  
Saadat M. Alhashmi
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Technology Students ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
College Of Technology ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Insufficient Time

Introduction: Social networking sites (SNSs) have become a popular method for students to share information and knowledge and to express emotions. They enable students to exchange video files, text messages, pictures and knowledge sharing. They provide an opportunity for students to improve social networking and learning processes, which promotes knowledge in society. Purposes: This paper intends to address the factors motivating students at colleges to use SNSs, to identify the factors that motivate them in using SNSs for educational purposes and to identify the most popular SNSs among students. Design/Methodology: The study uses a questionnaire in order to discover the reasons behind the use of SNSs by students at Shinas College of Technology (ShCT) in Oman. Findings: The study found that the major reasons for frequent use of SNSs are finding information and sharing news. The study also indicated that lack of experience as well as insufficient time and IT skills are effective factors of not using SNSs. Finally, the study discovered that Google Groups, Facebook and Yahoo! 360 are the most popular SNSs used by SHCT students. Research Limitation: The study was limited to ShCT students, which is considered a small community, and the focus group was relatively small. A larger focus group in a different environment may possibly yield different results. Additionally, the list of SNSs listed in the questionnaire was based on previous studies discussed in the literature review. Originality/value: This research will be valuable for those interested in the subject of social networks and e-learning. In this area, there is a dearth of research on reasons for student use of SNSs in Oman, giving this particular research great importance to understanding the way that students interact with SNSs.

scholarly journals Polemik Ahmadiyah Di Media Online: Studi pada Weblog Interaktif Kompasiana

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-198
Author(s):  
Gun Gun Heryanto
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
New Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Communication Channel ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
New Public

Internet as a new media is a communication channel that can be a new public sphere. Especially after the migration of web 1.0 to web 2.0, internet users are connected to many social networking sites and interactive weblog to share informations, ideas and thought. It also allows the debate surrounding the Ahmadiyya get space between netizens. Polemic about Ahmadiyya no longer solely a matter of aqidah as a matter of prophecy, al Mahdi and al Masih, revelation, caliphate and jihad but also a matter of Human Rights (HAM) and the law. We need to map out the themes of the talk surrounding the Ahmadiyya among internet users as well as the need to know the context and dynamics of the evolving discourse on new media. This study traced 100 posts written by Internet users in Kompasiana during 2008-2012 as well as the data from the focus group discussion (FGD) with Kompasianer.

Use of WhatsApp for Effective Delivery of Library and Information Services

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 360
Author(s):  
Mohd Shoaib Ansari ◽  
Aditya Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Virtual Reference ◽  
Effective Delivery

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Information communication technology playing a major role in transmitting idea, thought and information between one to another. Social networking websites are a good example of communication network and it is a social structure that lets the user interact and work collaboratively with other users. WhatsApp is a free instant </span><span>messenger application that allows users to send text messages and multimedia files. In this paper, an online survey </span><span>was conducted to measure usability of WhatsApp for service delivery in the libraries and information centres. A random sample was selected from social networking sites from all over India and an online questionnaire was used to gather information from respondents. Findings indicated that respondents showed a positive attitude toward getting services over WhatsApp. Most of the respondents believe that use of WhatsApp can improve alert services (CAS, </span><span>virtual reference, notifications) and libraries can utilise their potential for providing better user services. </span></p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Detection and Analysis of Stress using Machine Learning Techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 335-342
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Word Sense Disambiguation ◽  
Ambiguous Word ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Word Sense ◽  
Severe Problem ◽  
Sense Disambiguation

Every year tens of millions of people suffer from depression and few of them get proper treatment on time. So, it is crucial to detect human stress and relaxation automatically via social media on a timely basis. It is very important to detect and manage stress before it goes into a severe problem. A huge number of informal messages are posted every day in social networking sites, blogs and discussion forums. This paper describes an approach to detect the stress using the information from social media networking sites, like tweeter.This paper presents a method to detect expressions of stress and relaxation on tweeter dataset i.e. working on sentiment analysis to find emotions or feelings about daily life. Sentiment analysis works the automatic extraction of sentiment related information from text. Here using TensiStrengthframework for sentiment strength detection on social networking sites to extract sentiment strength from the informal English text. TensiStrength is a system to detect the strength of stress and relaxation expressed in social media text messages. TensiStrength uses a lexical approach and a set of rules to detect direct and indirect expressions of stress or relaxation. This classifies both positive and negative emotions based on the strength scale from -5 to +5 indications of sentiments. Stressed sentences from the conversation are considered &categorised into stress and relax. TensiStrength is robust, it can be applied to a widevarietyofdifferent social web contexts. Theeffectiveness of TensiStrength depends on the nature of the tweets.In human being there is inborn capability to differentiate the multiple senses of an ambiguous word in a particular context, but machine executes only according to the instructions. The major drawback of machine translation is Word Sense Disambiguation. There is a fact that a single word can have multiple meanings or "senses." In the pre-processing partof-speech disambiguation is analysed and the drawback of WSD overcomes in the proposed method by unigram, bigram and trigram to give better result on ambiguous words. Here, SVM with Ngram gives better resultPrecision is65% and Recall is 67% .But, the main objective of this technique is to find the explicit and implicit amounts of stress and relaxation expressed in tweets. Keywords: Stress Detection, Data Mining, TensiStrength, word sense disambiguation.

Media reporting of cyberbullying

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 290-309
Author(s):  
Lai Fong Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
English Language ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Cyberbullying Victimization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
Level Problem

Abstract Cyberbullying refers to aggression that is intentionally and repeatedly carried out in an electronic context (e.g., e-mail, blogs, social networking sites, instant messages, text messages, etc.) against a person who cannot easily defend him- or herself. Cyberbullying is an important phenomenon to research for many reasons. First, although varying prevalence rates have been reported, cyberbullying victimization has been found to occur at frequencies that are cause for concern. Second, many victims of cyberbullying have been found to experience a range of negative outcomes as a consequence. Third, previous studies found that increased Internet usage has led to increased involvement as perpetrators, victims or witness in cyberbullying. It is alarming that a survey conducted by Anis, Rahim and Lim (2012) in Malaysia revealed that 60% of the cases took place in social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. This study aims to examine the coverage of cyberbullying by The Star, which is the English-language daily newspaper with the largest circulation in Malaysia. Framing theory was employed as the theoretical framework, while content analysis was used as the research methods. This study revealed that coverage on cyberbullying in The Star was dominated by the “prevention and intervention strategies” frame. The social problem was also presented as an individual-level problem (episodic framing) as well as societal-level issue (thematic framing). Implications of the findings to the understanding of cyberbullying and framing research were discussed.

Using Social Networking to Enhance Sense of Community in E-Learning Courses

2010 ◽  
pp. 281-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Chi-Yin Yuen ◽  
Harrison Hao Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
E Learning

This chapter provides an overview and development of sense of community and social networking; discusses the potential uses of social networking in education; and presents a case study that integrates social networking into two graduate courses for the purpose of building a sense of community, improving communications and interactions, and promoting student-centered collaboration. The construction of class social networking sites, the implementation of these networks, and their effects on the students’ learning experience are examined. In addition, an analysis of feedback from students on the value of social networking in learning is included.

Using Social Networking to Enhance Sense of Community in E-Learning Courses

2010 ◽  
pp. 1096-1119
Author(s):  
Steve Chi-Yin Yuen ◽  
Harrison Hao Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
E Learning

This chapter provides an overview and development of sense of community and social networking; discusses the potential uses of social networking in education; and presents a case study that integrates social networking into two graduate courses for the purpose of building a sense of community, improving communications and interactions, and promoting student-centered collaboration. The construction of class social networking sites, the implementation of these networks, and their effects on the students’ learning experience are examined. In addition, an analysis of feedback from students on the value of social networking in learning is included.

Students as Customers

2015 ◽  
pp. 306-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Shi ◽  
Alexandra I. Cristea ◽  
Craig Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Web Experience ◽  
Students As Customers

The World Wide Web is changing, from the early Web 1.0 to the Social Web 2.0 and beyond to Web 3.0 interfaces, but more importantly, the users of the Web are also changing, and their numbers are increasing rapidly in line with this evolution. In e-Learning, it is essential to be able to keep up with these trends and provide personalized social interaction. Here, our main customers are our students, but these customers do not come unprepared: they already have a great deal of Web experience, especially in the areas of Social Networking Sites (SNS) and online interaction. Thus, it is essential to improve approaches used in the past, where learners were only involved in the receiving part of the delivery process. This chapter therefore proposes and explores applying participatory design methodologies in the early stages of the social adaptive educational hypermedia system design process, showing also its benefits for further design, implementation, and usage.

scholarly journals Learning Management System versus Social Networking Sites

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tasneem F. Alfalah ◽  
Salsabeel F. Alfalah ◽  
Jannat F. Falah ◽  
Walaa Qutaishat ◽  
Wa’ed Ishretih ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Network Services ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Smart Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Management ◽  
The University

Purpose - The motive of this study was the notice of the constant movement of the students in The University of Jordan (UJ) from official communities to creating groups on SNSs. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate an analysis about students’ usage of E-learning and Facebook, and identifies the major functions that are missing in the e-learning system. This paper firstly, compared students’ usage for Learning Management Systems (LMSs) vs. Social Networking Sites (SNSs), and secondly, investigated the students’ perceptions towards educational value of integrating social networking features in the LMS through Mobile Learning (m-learning).Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from students from multiple sources: observation, interviews, and survey. The obtained results formed students perceptions toward currently used LMS in the university and SNSs, which lead to extracting their requirements to enhance the LMS used.Findings – The results of this research emphasize the importance of SNSs as a communication tool and the development of e-learning systems to move beyond LMS and engage students in an active use of the system as a resource of their information and collaborative activities.Originality/value –This study contributes to examining UJ students’ perceptions toward embedding the characteristics of the smart learning and the social network services into an e-learning system. In contrast to previous studies in enhancing LMS by just integrating features of SNSs into LMS without utilizing smart learning.

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