scholarly journals RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES & APPLICATIONS AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1437-1445
Author(s):  
Syed Zubair Haider ◽  
Uzma Munawar ◽  
Hamida Bibi ◽  
Farooq Hussain ◽  
Abdul Wadood
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Attention Span ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose of the study: This study analysed the relationship between Online Social Networking websites and Applications (OSNSA) and university students' academic achievement. Methodology: In the present research, a quantitative research design was followed, and a survey research type of descriptive research was used in this study. Data were collected from 150 university students using a modified version of The Online Social Networking Sites scale (Paul, Baker, & Cochran, 2012). The correlation was calculated by using the SPSS 22nd version. Main Findings: The findings revealed a connection between students' time spent on OSNSA and their academic outcomes. The time spent on OSNSA was observed to be strongly influenced by the attention span of the students. In particular, we find that a lower academic output is provided by the greater time spent on OSNSA. Also, attention span was strongly associated with features that influence students' academic success, such as their perceptions of society's social networking outlook, their advantages, and disadvantages of OSNSA, use of OSNSA, etc. Applications of this study: Many students spend most of their hours on online networking pages, like Facebook, Tok-Tok, and WhatsApp, which are the most common, considering the harmful impact of social media. In certain eyes, social media has embedded a detrimental effect, but it is also used to acquire vital knowledge and social skills for pupils. Novelty/Originality of this study: This research is different from other studies because it explores the relationship between social networking sites & the application and academic performance of university students belonging from South Punjab by exploring various facets of OSNSA which ultimately promote university students’ academic performance.

Cyberloafing in Learning Environments Where Online Social Networking Sites Are Used as Learning Tools: Antecedents and Consequences

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 539-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hatice Yildiz Durak
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Online Social Networking

The objective of this study is to construct a model which explains and predicts the relations of university students’ cyberloafing behaviors with demographic and academic variables at computing courses where online social networking sites are utilized for education and is to review whether there is longitudinal effect on these relations in terms of learning experience. This group of the study is composed of 171 university students. In this study, self-description form, two different success tests, and various scales are utilized as data collection tools. For the analysis of the data, structural equation modeling and multiple hierarchical regression analysis are utilized. The results of this study indicate that variables of information technologies usage status, online learning activities usage status, academic self-efficacy, motivation, and cognitive absorption are predictable of cyberloafing behaviors at Time 2 point, and cyberloafing behavior predicts academic success and academic procrastination at Time 2 point. Although the relations between various study variables and cyberloafing are not meaningful at Time 1 point, it is an interesting finding that these relations are statistically meaningful at Time 2 point.

Social Media A Tool for Social and Political Inclusion among Youth: A Study of Indian University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
Satish Kumar ◽  
Amit Sharma ◽  
Varinder Verma
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Survey Method

Social Media is an important tool for sharing information and communication among the people. Mobile Applications enable these social networking sites (SNS) to send and receive info-content to the target audience. Especially, University students in the country today use SNS extensively for information and entertainment needs. Social media is playing a crucial role in social and political awareness for inclusive development. The study focuses on how social networking apps help in fulfilling the social needs of youth? What are the effects of social media on studies of university students? How do political parties use SNS apps for youth? And how mobile apps are contributing to the Digital India movement? A survey method was used for quantitative research methodology with a stratified random sampling of 100 university students of two state university of Haryana. The study reveals that students consider mobile apps help in socially connected with well known, to whom they are meeting personally and they feel happy for sharing their thoughts. It also explains the use of social media can create a negative effect on studies. Political parties and political leaders are targeting youth for their propaganda and agenda-setting through mobile apps. In the Digital India movement mobile apps are empowering youth for inclusive development.

Gender Differences in Motivations to Use Social Networking Sites

2019 ◽  
pp. 676-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Noguti ◽  
Sonika Singh ◽  
David S. Waller
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Female Consumers ◽  
Cognitive Absorption

This chapter investigates gender differences in motivations to use social networking sites (SNS), a subset of social media. The present research focuses on Facebook given its prominence among currently available SNS. Analysing a survey of university students in Australia, the results indicate that female consumers are more likely than male consumers to use Facebook to seek information (to research and learn new things and to discuss products and brands) and for convenience (to obtain things with little effort). Both of these reasons in turn relate positively to their degree of engagement on Facebook, where engagement is operationalized as cognitive absorption which is a state of deep involvement with an activity.

scholarly journals Kids R Us: Online Social Networking and the Potential for Empowerment

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla M Regan ◽  
Valerie Steeves
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Online Media ◽  
The Relationship

Our paper examines the dynamic of surveillance and empowerment from a theoretical perspective, identifies illustrative empirical examples, and perhaps most importantly investigates the practices that maximize the empowerment potential and minimize threats to that potential.In particular, we seek to understand the ways in which young people have adopted or adapted online media in order to deepen their social experiences, build community, and resist measures that seek to limit their online speech and access to information.We posit that there are four different models of the relationship between surveillance and empowerment in the context of young people on social networking sites (SNS).We introduce each of these with a discussion of the dynamic between surveillance and empowerment in each model and some representative examples.Finally, we explore whether there are particular conditions which permit empowerment to emerge in a surveillance environment.

“Hey, Look at My Body!”

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lik Sam Chan ◽  
Hing Weng Eric Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Body Image Satisfaction ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Privacy Risks ◽  
The Relationship

This article considers the phenomenon of online body display by users of social networking sites in Hong Kong. A survey of 392 young adults was conducted to investigate the relationships between narcissism, grandiose exhibitionism, body image satisfaction, perceived privacy risks, and online body display. A Body Display Index was developed to measure the perceived level of sexual explicitness of photographs shared by Facebook users. Grandiose exhibitionism, a sub-trait of narcissism, was found to be a stronger predictor of online body display than narcissism. The relationship between body image satisfaction and online body display was not significant, and no relationship was found between such displays and perceived privacy risks, thus implying a lack of social media-related privacy concerns among the respondents.

scholarly journals Television as a Moderator Between Narcissism and Self-Promoting Behavior on Facebook

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-187
Author(s):  
Asghar Ali Shah ◽  
Mujeem M Bhatti ◽  
Ahmad A Ansari ◽  
Basharat Hussain ◽  
Gulshan Tara
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Significant Positive Relationship ◽  
Context Of Learning ◽  
The Relationship

There is a debate going on in the present literature that how narcissism predicts several behaviors on social networking sites but the search for potential moderators of that relationship was not given much attention. A survey that assesses narcissism, time spent on TV and self-promoting behavior on Facebook was conducted with 151 undergraduate and post graduate students. Our finding indicates that narcissism and time spent on TV has significant positive relationship with self-promoting behavior on Facebook. The relationship between narcissism and self- promoting behavior is found to be significantly moderated by time spent on TV. The findings are discussed in the context of learning self-enhancing through exposure to TV programs and imitating that behavior for self-regulation by narcissistic individuals through social media.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS APPROACHES OF ABUSIVE TEXT DETECTION IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS

2021 ◽  
pp. 124-130
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
English Language ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Accurate Method ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
The People ◽  
Language Constructs

Social media is one of the most influential tool for sharing information across different regions among different users .The people sharing their interests in various aspects in online social networking platforms like Facebook, twitter etc. Therefore the usage of hate text steadily increasing. Nowadays it has been reviled unfair behavior of the users in social networking sites. The existence of abusive text on different online social networking platforms and identification of such text is a big challenging task. To understand the complexity of language constructs in different languages is very difficult .Already lot of research work has completed in English language. This paper gives detail analysis of detecting hate text in various languages Hindi, urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Telugu. We incorporated various kinds of ML and DL based algorithms to identify hate text in OSN’s. A review is done related to different classifiers where a comparison made between different models of ML, DL algorithms. Finally finds the accurate method to classify the text is offensive or not by finding the parameters i.e. accuracy and F1score

scholarly journals A Trigger or a Muffler? - Examining the Dynamics of Crosscutting Exposure and Political Expression in Online Social Media

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
Soo Young Bae
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Candidate Support

This study explores the potential of online social media to serve as a sphere for political discourse and investigates the extent to which everyday uses of online social networking sites can expose citizens to politically diverse viewpoints.  In addition, this study asks whether such crosscutting exposure in online social networks will act as a trigger or a muffler for political expression – that is, whether exposure political difference will stimulate or discourage political discussions.  With analyses of a sample of online social networking site users in the context of the 2012 presidential election in South Korea, this study explicates the link between crosscutting exposure and citizens’ political expressions in social media.  Results reveal that contrary to the predictions in previous literature, exposure to politically incongruent viewpoints in online social networking sites does not seem to undermine users’ expressive behaviors but instead positively contribute to political expression.  In addition, this study shows the significant role of citizens’ perceptions of candidate support in their own networks, and illustrates that the dynamics of political expression differ significantly depending on the users’ age.

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