Exploring students’ purposes of usage and educational usage of Facebook

Manasijević, Dragan; Živković, Dragana; Arsić, Sanela; Milošević, Isidora

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.02.087

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“…Although Baym, Zhang and Lin (2004) discovered that students prefer to communicate face-to-face, available literature indicates that SNSs have become an alternative in the absence of face-to-face interactions. Manasijevic et al (2016) underscored the role played by SNSs in allowing users to maintain connections with former classmates, workmates, social contacts and families whom they will be living away from. Furthermore, Lai, She and Tao (2017) found that organisations with similar interests use the tag and share features to connect not only with other organisations but with their contacts as well.…”

Section: The Need To Connectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Manasijevic et al (2016) noted that Facebook does not only facilitate communication amongst students and teachers but can also be used for class discussions. Discussions are important in education because they enable knowledge sharing amongst participants (Chen & Kuo 2017).…”

Section: The Need To Discussmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Artists, advertisers and individuals create videos, audios and pictures to express themselves or communicate with their contacts. Manasijevic et al (2016), in a study to investigate the usage of Facebook for learning purposes, discovered that professors and students could share multimedia clips and graphical illustrations on SNSs as an alternative learning platform to the physical classroom. Rousseau et al (2017) noted that pictures are the most shared media on Facebook followed by videos.…”

Section: The Need To Share Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Entertainment is a critical need for human existence, especially amongst users of SNSs (Xiao & Zuang 2014). Manasijevic et al (2016) found that Facebook is widely used every day for entertainment drives by people from various backgrounds and cultures. The literature indicates that SNSs allow individual users to upload, view and download music http://www.actacommercii.co.za…”

Section: The Need For Entertainmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Motives influencing Facebook usage as a social networking site: An empirical study using international students

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Orientation: Recent trends in the world show a growing usage of social networking sites. Research has grown in interest on understanding uses of social networking sites by different groups of people. With increasing numbers of international students being hosted by South African institutions, it is imperative that special focus should be directed towards understanding their usage of social networking sites as part of their lived experience.Research purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the motives influencing Facebook usage amongst international students at a rural campus in South Africa.Motivation for the study: Continued increase in international student enrolment at South African institutions, coupled with rising popularity of social networking sites amongst university students, has presented a new area to carry out research of this nature. Research approach, design and method:A quantitative research approach was followed in carrying out this study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were performed to answer the research questions of the study. The respondents (n = 158) were international students enrolled at a rural university campus in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa during the 2016 academic year. Main findings:Motives for Facebook usage were found to be positively related to Facebook usage. Practical and managerial implications:Findings of this study can assist international education practitioners to develop strategies that will aid in understanding how international students operate in the higher education context.

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Section: The Need To Connectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Need To Discussmentioning

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Section: The Need To Share Mediamentioning

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Section: The Need For Entertainmentmentioning

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Motives influencing Facebook usage as a social networking site: An empirical study using international students

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“…Therefore, online social networking platforms can play a significant role in learning and teaching of a foreign language [30][31][32]. It has been reported that over 80% of undergraduate students are regularly using social networking sites (particularly Facebook) and this is most likely to have increased in recent years [33].…”

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confidence: 99%