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perceptions and use of social networks by university students for information seeking and sharing

perceptions and use of social networks by university students for information seeking and sharing

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1、PerceptionsandUseofSocialNetworksbyUniversityStudentsforInformationSeekingandSharingShaheenMajid*andChanMengFai*AssociateProfessorofInformationStudiesNanyangTechnologicalUniversity(NTU)SingaporePaperpresentedatthe6thAnnualForumSaudiAssociationforMediaandCommunicationKingSaudUniversity–Riyadh15-16Ap

2、ril2012PerceptionsandUseofSocialNetworksbyUniversityStudentsforInformationSeekingandSharingABSTRACTThesedaysocialnetworkingsites(SNSs)arewidelyusedbystudentsformeetingtheirdiverseinformationneeds.Themainobjectiveofthisstudywastoinvestigatetheperceptions,preferencesandusageofsocialnetworkingsitesbyu

3、niversitystudentsforacademicandnon-academicpurposes.Inaddition,students’viewsoncertainissuessuchastrustandprivacywerealsoinvestigated.Apre-testedonlinequestionnairewasusedfordatacollectionandatotalof408studentsfromthreepublicuniversitiesinSingaporeparticipatedinthisstudy.Thekeyfindingsofthisstudywe

4、re:1)searchenginesremainedthemostpreferredchannelforinformationseeking,regardlessofthetypeofinformationsought;2)students’informationseekingactivitiesthroughSNSsweremainlyfornon-academicinformationseeking;and3)studentswereconcernedabouttheprivacyandunauthorizeduseofinformationpostedbythemonSNSs.Thef

5、indingsofthisstudywillbeusefulforacademicandnon-academicorganizationstogainanunderstandingoftheusepatternofsocialnetworksbystudentsandapplythisknowledgetostrategizeandleverageonthepotentialsofsocialnetworks.INTRODUCTIONWiththepopularityofsocialnetworkingsites(SNSs),thesewebsitesarelikelybecomeoneof

6、thepopularplatformsforinformationseeking,sharingandcollaboration.Shin(2010)definedSNSsasavirtualcommunitywherepeopleofsimilarinterestscancommunicatebypostingandexchanginginformationaboutthemselves.ClickandPetit(2010)explainedthatSNSisaplatformforbuildingonlinecommunitiestoprovideservicesfortheirmem

7、berstointeract.Atypicalsocialnetworkingsitemayprovide:1)onlineservicesthatallowindividualstoconstructapublicorsemi-publicprofilewithinaboundedsystem,2)aplatformtomakeaccessiblealistofuserswithwhomonewantsto

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