Year: 2013
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: With the increasing popularity of Facebook, students are joining and using it in their social and academic lives.Huge popularity of Facebook among the students has brought the researchers attention to investigate the phenomenon.Most research regarding online social networks, particularly Facebook use has explored at these networks in terms of profile management, identity creation and friending behavior.This study investigates the impact of Facebook on students' academic performance through social capital concept.This research has been conducted on the Master's degree students from the University of Eastern Finland and quantitative methods techniques have been applied for data analysis.The research has found that use of Facebook has slight impacts on student's academic performance.Further results found that Facebook is bridging, bonding and maintaining the existing relationships but it is not very effective for making new relations.Facebook is increasing the students' social capital effectively, due to its huge popularity and most used communication channel among university students.The daily use of Facebook is increasing communication among the users, consequently Facebook users participate more in extracurricular activities than non-Facebook users.Among the University students Facebook has a perception as a cheap, fast and entertaining medium of communication and students do not consider Facebook as a dominated phenomenon over their studies.
Author: Muhammad Kashif
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3096620077