Kentucky Journal of Higher Education Policy and Practice Volume 1 | Issue 2 Article 7 7-23-2012 THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ACADEMIC PRACTICE: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE Retta Guy Tennessee State University‚ rguy@tnstate.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://uknowledge.uky.edu/kjhepp Part of the Communication Technology and New Media Commons‚ Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons‚ and the Instructional Media Design Commons Recommended Citation Guy‚ Retta (2012) "THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR
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Social networking sites increase social interaction and connections. Social networking sites have a beneficial effect on our way of life. They increase our social interaction and give us more ways to make social connections. As long as the individual remembers and accepts that a decrease in privacy comes with that increased social interaction‚ then it is a benefit. It stops being a benefit when people forget about the decrease in privacy and do things through social networking sites that they
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create little communities within their domain (Kawkins‚ 2011). Other sites stated adding new features to make it easy to quickly add new friend’s base on what friends the user has as friends on their account. Flash forward to the year early 2000’s‚ MySpace has been fighting legal issues for privacy violations and a new Social Networking Site has been created called Facebook. With so many social networking sites why make Facebook a target? The answer is simple and the most integrated into everyone’s
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INTRODUCTION The Internet is more than just a mean of seeking information. People discovered that the Internet could be used to connect with other people‚ whether for business or commercial purpose‚ make new friends‚ reawaken old friends and long lost relatives. With the growing use of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter‚ Tumblr‚ Instagram‚ Yahoo Mail‚ the methodology of education for students is finding new and improved ways. Students are getting more prone to the commodities these
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Internet usage is increasing rapidly among the general population but even greater among college students‚ leading to pathological use‚ or Internet addiction‚ for some students. Internet addiction is defined as a psychological dependence on the internet and is characterized by; anxiety‚ depression‚ emptiness when offline‚ an increasing tolerance to the effects of being online‚ and denial of the challenging behaviors (Kandell‚ 1998). College students are more vulnerable to developing internet addiction
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Title: Social Media and Recruitment in a Globalized Market Name: Jignesh J Trivedi (MBA - HR) (Asst. Professor‚ Shree B J Patel Umiya BBA College‚ A’bad) Address: 15‚ Krishna Aprt; Opp. Ami Akhand Anand society part-2; B/H Ambica Hotel; CTM Char Rasta; Ahmedabad - 380026 Contact: 91-93772 51541 Email Id: jignesh_hrm@live.in ABSTRACT Title: Social Media and Recruitment in a Globalised Market Social Media is identified as a “free participation that allows
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Unit 3 Facebook vs. Twitter Case Study Analysis Kaplan University School of Business and Management MT460 Management Policy and Strategy Author: Tosha Collins Professor: Dr. Karli Peterson Date: January 22‚ 1970 Facebook (originally "The facebook") is a social networking website launched in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg‚ then 23‚ while studying psychology at Harvard University. Membership was initially limited to students of Harvard College‚ but soon the social site
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most fanatic users of these sites. According to various research studies in the field of online social networks‚ it has been revealed that these sites are impacting the lives of the youth greatly. When using these sites such as Twitter‚ Facebook or MySpace‚ there are both positive and negative effects on the youth and today we are going to contrast the two sides to see if the negative effects outweigh the positive effects. Some of the points that will be argued are that many people believe the use of
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Social Networking Online social networking is when people connect with other people online through certain websites. I believe the most common websites today include Facebook‚ Twitter and Myspace. What people do is create their own profile account‚ and post information‚ photos‚ videos‚ and comments. Those things then get reserved on a news-feed for your whole fan base to see. I believe that the good of social networking far outweighs the bad. It seems to me that if you have internet and know
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Aliyah Williams Composition II Mrs. Reed 2/27/13 Social Networking: More Harm than good? In today’s society one of the main ways we as humans communicate is through social networks. Social Networks such as Twitter or Facebook serve as a new and exciting way to interact over the internet and socialize. Now a day people rarely text or call due to new innovative ways such as the internet to connect with people all around the world. Individuals who are pro Social Networks would say that they
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