Analysis of Social Media Usage by Higher Education Students: A Report

This report investigates the use of social media platforms by higher education students, exploring the purposes and impact of these platforms. It begins with an introduction to the research topic, followed by a background on the problem of social media usage in higher education. The report summarizes the existing literature, focusing on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and discusses their role in student learning, online classes, and knowledge acquisition. The analysis includes an evaluation of the relevance and reliability of the literature sources, emphasizing the benefits and limitations of social media. The report highlights how social media impacts students' learning experiences, critical thinking, and engagement with course materials. It also references key studies and authors to support the findings. The report concludes with a bibliography of the sources used.

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Table of content
 Introduction to the Research
 Background to the Problem
 Summary of the literature
 Evaluation of the relevance and reliability of the literature sources
 References/Bibliography

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Introduction to the Research
 The topic which is selected in this report is the use of social media by higher
education students- which platforms and for what purposes. Social media
platform is being mostly used by organisation in order to promote their
products and services. But now a days, higher students are using various social
media platforms in order to connect with various other persons and gaining
knowledge about a particular topic or a company. further social media
channels like Facebook, twitter and Instagram etc. are used by higher students.
this plays important role in higher education in everyday life.

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Background to the Problem
 The background of the research is use of social media on higher education students
and for what purposes it is being used by them. It ca declared as the importance or
the problems for the students because students use this for gaining more information
about their research topic, it is used for enhancing their knowledge and skills and on
the other hand, it can also distracts them with their images and posts uploaded by
various companies and chatting with their friends.

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Summary of the literature
 The given report is on the use of social media by higher education students. Social Media
is very effective for higher education students in order to search the knowledge about their
assignments and achieve their objectives. nowadays it helps the students in taking online
classes and connecting with their teachers. this helps them in developing more knowledge.
There are various social media platform that has been used by higher education students
these are Twitter, Facebook and YouTube etc.

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Cont..
 Student should have to considered these things while using social media platforms. This
literature is important to the readers because it provide in-depth knowledge about a
particular topic and also this helps the readers in getting more knowledge about this social
media platform which is being used by higher education students. as this could be helpful
for the readers to get to know about the advantages and disadvantages of the social media
and how the students are using them for what purposes. readers should know what should be
like or dislike by them. Reading this literature students will be able to get to know more
knowledge about advantages of social media.

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Cont..
 From the views of Remillard, Nagel, 2020, social media is bringing both benefits and
limitations. as Twitter in the classroom does not provide positive impact on perception of
students of the learning experience. Twitter also works effectively for the management of
classroom and the clarity about the expectation of assignments. on the other hand, social
media helps the teacher in engagement and connecting with the students. but it does not
develop the critical thinking of students as it provides making connection with the course
material and the cases of real-world.

z Evaluation of the relevance and reliability of the literature sources
 Evaluation of the relevance of sources:
 In this particular research the books are being selected from the particular sources that is
required for this research paper. Information is relevant when it helps the researcher in
answering of the questions of research. there is a researcher has identified a relevant
source which is related with the given topic of use of social media in higher education
students.

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Cont..
 Evaluation of reliability of sources:
 Reliability is referring to making sure that information is correct and the
objectives of information are also correct. The researcher in this given
research is using quality of information which helps them in developing new
and accurate results. The content which is collected through literature review
is accurate because it consists of description of different authors who are
developing the knowledge more.

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References/Bibliography
 Tsao, S.F and et.al., 2021. What social media told us in the time of COVID-19: a
scoping review. The Lancet Digital Health.
 Williams, M.L., Saunderson, I.P. and Dhoest, A., 2021. Students’ Perceptions of
the Adoption and Use of Social Media in Academic Libraries: A UTAUT
Study. Communication, 47(1), pp.76-94.