The influence of social media on student’s academic performance: a case study of Lebanese French University

Abstract

Today’s generation is of Networking. It is amazing to look how Internet is changing the lives of people. Social Networking is an international trend, and has spread its wings and has reached to that limit where we can find anyone from any part of the world and gain ample knowledge relating to anything. Social Media primarily originated to be connected with family and friends, but later it was adopted by business as well, as it wanted to take advantage of new and popular method of reaching to customer. On the same lines, students adopted Social Media to be in touch with colleagues and teachers as there is faster flowing of information and knowledge. The intensity of Social Media lies in its capacity to share information and connect with everyone simultaneously with everyone on the earth. The present investigation attempts to go around the impact of Social Media and understudies execution. For data collection, survey method was used with the help of structured questionnaire. The sample size was 63. Students from different year were used as respondents. SPSS-22 was used for analyzing the data. The study concluded with the study of positive and negative influence of Social Media. The positive effect includes easy passage of Information, completion of homework & assignments and finally it encourage the academic exercise and facilitate with others. The negative effect includes that the students get dependent on it, their performance has decreased with the more use of Social Media and finally it is a distracting element.

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Sohail Imran Khan, Nabaz Nawzad Abdullah

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  • EP ID EP634041
  • DOI 10.18524/2413-9998.2019.1(41).173510
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Sohail Imran Khan, Nabaz Nawzad Abdullah (2019). The influence of social media on student’s academic performance: a case study of Lebanese French University. Ринкова економіка: сучасна теорія і практика управління, 18(1), 38-56. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-634041