TERM PAPER
The Impact of Social Media on
Students
Submitted By: MD. FAHIM SHAHRIA
ID:
2021-3-60-177
Submitted To: FARHANA ZAREEN BASHAR
Senior Lecturer
Department
of English, EWU.
Course: ENG102 (Composition
and communication skills)
Section: 18
Date
of Submission: 28.04.2022
I, hereby, declare that, no part of this term
paper has been copied from anywhere, it is completely my own work.
Acknowledgement
I would like to thank our beloved instructor “Farhana Zareen Bashar
(FZB)” for giving this opportunity to do this paper.
Name
Signature
MD. Fahim Shahria …………………………………………….
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There
are a huge number of individuals on the web who are interested to gather
information about others and meet other individuals, to assemble, share data
and encounters on many areas and topics. As a result of this, hundreds of
social networking sites have been made, and they have pulled in a large number
of clients in the few short years that interpersonal interaction has turned
into a marvel. The kye elements of the social media websites are fundamentally
the same, yet each site attracts variety of clients in a wide range of ways.
Many of the social networking websites aim at gathering huge public, while
others draw in individuals based on race, sexual inclinations, religion, or
nationality. The social media websites are additionally different in the ways
in which they appear and join new data and specialized devices, similar to
portable access, blogging, photograph and video sharing.
The
main aim of this study is to analyze and evaluate the various impacts of social
media on students. Efforts have been done to focus on most significant impacts
with the help of latest literature review. The detailed study of literature
review revealed that the major factors on which social media has its impact in
the life of students include their academic performance, social behavior,
health and privacy issues. The previous studies have shown that there has been
a slight difference in the impacts of social media on both male and female
students. In order to confirm that, major result have been analyzed with
respect to gender as well. Some of results are similar to previous studies and
researches, while some of the results are contrary to the previous work done in
this regard.
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These days the most commonly utilized method
of communication is social media networking. It is being used by individuals
belonging to every walk of life. Almost a decade ago, social media was widely
accepted by public. There are numerous online networking platforms that include
but are not limited to Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest,
YouTube, Google, snapchat. It’s show’s numerous social media networking types.
The main purpose of social media is to give access to its clients and users.
They can have conversation with individuals and construct social relations on
the web. They can likewise share their contemplations and individual data on
social media including everyday happenings, suppositions, pictures, recordings
and web links. Also, individuals can promote their business and individual
aptitudes. The capacity of online networking to spread valuable data quickly
has mead it the quickest developing method of association, Social media
networking has changed numerous businesses, however the most striking impact of
it is in the classrooms and the overall education system. Whether it’s using
private social gatherings, Facebook pages, classroom Twitter profiles or web
journals, school after school ahs grasped long range of interpersonal
communication using some form of social media. With such a high rate of
students using social media networking on daily basis, there is a strong need
to analyze the extent to which social media is having its impact on students.
There is no doubt that online networking
sites specially the social media have conveyed individuals closer to one
another more than ever, yet specialists and researchers around the globe have
been searching for the weaknesses that might have been faced by its users.
After the presentation of cell phones, the utilization of online networking has
risen exponentially. Whit the ascent in the utilization of long rang
interpersonal communication locations, the edge of customary individual
collaboration had been changed and will be more distinctive for the up and
coming era. The long range interpersonal communication has its consequences for
society inside and out for instance, specialized techniques, self-expression,
disengagement, relations and the sense of humanity.
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It has been a well known truth that in order
to utilize social networking websites, one needs to create an account and sing
in every time they want to access the website. Every social networking site
does not give tis clients a choice to keep their online appearance private. In
addition, there is an absence of mindfulness on approaches to hide the private
data of the clients. Due to this reason, individuals face various privacy and
accountability issues while utilizing online networking. Besides, there have
been questions on the quality and dependability of the data that is accessible
on the online networking in view of checking it. This marks them deceived and
once in a while prompts mistaken assumptions. Moreover, it gives them a misguided
feeling of being progressive. Another problem is the effect of social media on
generic health conditions of the society. The reason behind this is people
prefer to play games online that do not involve any physical activity. The
purpose for this is individuals want to play games online which do not involve
any physical action.
By tracing back, the history of social media,
it can be found that the face of social media today is quite different from
what was considered to be social media in the past. It is vital for everybody
nowadays but it was not like that almost a decade ago. Six degrees is the
social media that was evolved for the very first time in 1997. Users could
create a profile and invite people as friends. This way of communication lasted
till 2001.
Around 100 million individuals began to use
internet and thus social networking website, by the start of 2000. It turned
out to be common for individuals to be engaged on social media websites.
Obviously, then it was thought to be odd. Still, more individuals started to
use visit these websites for socializing, dating and educational purposes.
After that, communication methods like
blogging and instant messaging evolved. In spite of the fact that blogging may
not appear like a form of social media, the term fits since it made public
capable of communicating through blog website instantly conveniently. After
this, virtual social media websites were created that include. The very first
social networking website using which people could set up a profile and make
friends that became inspiration for the next generation social media, including
Facebook. As more and more people started using social media websites, it
became vital for different business brands to list their social media addresses
that mostly include Facebook and Twitter web-links. Hence, social media became
a spot for business as well.
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Likewise, social media started to be one of
the courses in which web advertisers and site proprietors would support the
appearance of their sites. Online networking bookmarking turned out to be major
form of promotion and there were services that would bookmark a post or a site.
The advantages of social networking promoting for business started to be clear
to entrepreneurs.
This study aims at investigating the main
idea of social media networking, its importance and utilization. The study will
also focus on how the use of social media effects daily life of the students
and how it influences their academic and social prosperity. The primary source
of information for this research has been conducted using questionnaires.
Objectives:
The
objectives of this research are as follows:
1. Analysis
of how many and for how long social media is being utilized by students.
2. Analysis
of the student’s perspective regarding social media that includes the
following:
a. Reason
of using social media.
b. Positive
/ negative impacts of social media in:
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Academics.
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Social behavior.
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Physical health.
iv.
Privacy
3. Analysis
of the above impacts of social media on students with respect to gender, male
and female students separately.
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This
section will explain the research methodology used for the research under
study. The overall design or strategy that help in obtaining the desired goals
and objectives of the research is referred to the research methodology. The research
methodology includes research design, data collection, reliability and validity,
analysis of data and ethical issues involved in the research process.
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Research design: There
are two categories of research designs. These categories are namely
quantitative and qualitative research design.
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Data Collection:
Data collection is an important step while conducting research. The type,
quantity or quality of data that is collected varies in different researches according
to the objectives of the project.
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Analysis of Data: In
order to extract useful results for reaching a strong conclusion and
decision-making, it is important to analyze the data. The procedure of
transforming all the obtained data into useful data and then obtaining a clear
conclusion about the data is the process of analysis. Analysis process also
includes examining the data, building relation of different data types whit
each other and trends of different factors.
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Students under study
For this research purpose, students from four courses
have been chosen as research subject namely, business, computer, hospitality
and events management. Figure 4 shows courses of students under study.
According to the results, 35.7% of the students belong to business department,
33.33% of the students belonged to computer department, 19% of the students
belonged to hospitality department while only 12% of them were from events
management department. Finding whether usage or impact of social media varies
significantly with respect to gender is one of the objectives of this study.
Therefore, subject students have been asked to choose their genders as well.
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2. Students’ utilization of social
media w.r.to gender
Since analysis of whether the usage or impact
of social media varies significantly with respect to gender is one of the
objectives of this study, it is important to extract data with respect to
gender as well. According to the results shown in figure 7, 80% of the female
students who were surveyed, use social media while 96.29% of the male students
use social media. Results in figure 8 show that among female students, 26% use
social media for more than 8 hours daily. Also 26% of the female social media
for 4 to 8 hours daily while only 6.7% of the female students use social media
for 1 to 2 hours daily. Among male students, most of the students (40.7 %) use
social media for 2 to 5 hours daily following 26% male students using social
media for 1 to 2 hours. Only 15% of the male students use social media for more
than 8 hours per daily.
3. Reason
of using social media overall w.r.to gender
The subject students were asked to choose
the reason for which they use social media networking websites with respect to gender
as well. According to the results, among the female students, the major reason
for using social media is socializing and making new friends (60%),
collaborating with fellow students and study (13%), remaining updated about
trends (6.7%), as source of recreation and relaxation (6.7%). Among male
students, the distribution was as follows: the major reason for using social
media is socializing and making new friends (25%), collaborating with fellow
students and study (25%), remaining updated about trends (25%), as source of
recreation and relaxation (25%). This has been shown in figure 10.
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4. The
disadvantage of using social media
Among
the female students, 33.33% agreed that there are privacy issues, 40% agreed
that using social media reduces focus on studies and affects academic
performance, 13.3% agreed that it destroys social skills while 13.33% agreed
that it effects health. Among the male students, 48% agreed that there are
privacy issues, 18.5% agreed that using social media reduces focus on studies
and affects academic performance, 33.3% agreed that it destroys social skills
while 0% agreed that it effects health.
According
to the results as shown in figure 29, among the female students, 67% do not
evaluate the contents before publishing them to social networks, only 20%
evaluate contents while 13.3% evaluated contents sometimes. Among the male
students, 70.3% do not evaluate the contents before publishing them to social
networks, only 7.4% evaluate contents while 22.22% evaluated contents
sometimes.
When
students were asked whether they think there is any privacy issue related to
using social media, among female students, 87% agreed while 46.66% disagreed.
Among female students, 62.92% agreed while 37.4% disagreed. This has been shown
in figure 30.
Results
shown in figure 31 indicate that according to female students, 80% of the
students think that peer pressure plays no role in their joining of social
media, while 13.3% of the students think that peer pressure matters a lot
following 6% think that peer pressure matters to some extent. According to male
students, 81.5% of the students think that peer pressure plays no role in their
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joining
of social media, while 7.4% of the students think that peer pressure matters a
lot following 11.11% think that peer pressure matters to some extent.
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limitations
A few limitations can be identified for this
term paper. The study was led with a small group of subjects under study
selected from only four courses and this may restrict the generalizability of
the discoveries to the entire educational institutions. Bigger studies
including students over all schools and year levels can lead to empower
speculation. The focus of the current research work is, however, not
generalization but rather an activity research and analyses if the impacts of
social media on this particular group of students.
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Previously, the
conveying and free sharing of information among individuals were confined by
long distances and lack of facilities. In any case, these obstructions are
unable to stop the flow of data and information. The new universe of social
media networking permits free sharing of thoughts, pictures, videos, news,
business, brands and other updates.
In the present study,
when subject students were asked if they think there is any privacy issue identified
with utilizing social networking websites, more than half of them agree to
this. Specially, according to male students this issue was found to be the
biggest disadvantage of using social media is that it has a negative impact on
their grades and studies.
Hence, it can be
concluded that male students are aware of the problems related to privacy of
their personal data with the usage of social media. The female students are
more concerned about their grades than male students. The usage if social media
does not significantly impact on the students’ real social life and grades as
well. As a matter of fact, this study showed that social media can prove to be
a helpful research tool for students and can help them in their studies.
Also, teachers who
need to use social media in their courses to upgrade students learning capacity
should be organized to empower students and make them active individuals in the
learning process. The thought that students know how to use social media
appropriately may act as a hindrance for those students who may require closer
supervision. An e-learning system can play a very important role for students
in order to cooperate and work together the social media channel. Overall, it
can be concluded that, if appropriately used, the use of social media can prove
to be a very useful source of learning, sharing and healthy activities.
Book: Evolution of
Social Networks, 1st Edition by Patrick Doreian and Frans Stokman.
Collecting data from: National
and inter national Newspapers and Internet
sources
like, Wikipedia, Blogs, internet research etc.
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