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

Gwena, Courage; Chinyamurindi, Willie T.; Marange, Chioneso Show

doi:10.4102/ac.v18i1.521

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“…Meanwhile, Hollenbaugh & Ferris [44] revealed that Facebook could be used to create new relationships and manage romantic relationships. Entertainment increases Facebook usage [62] and Self-expression have been identified as another Facebook motives that influencing people to use social media [6][22] [49].…”

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The Core Elements of Motivational Factors that Influence Facebook Users to Self-Disclosure

Ajis¹

2020

IJBM

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This study examines the motivational factors that influence Facebook users among the Malaysian Army to self-disclosure by adapting the Uses and Gratification Theory. All data were obtained from 1513 Facebook users in various military units in Peninsular of Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. Its dimension of breadth and depth measures the self-disclosure. The study found that information sharing, social interaction and self-expression are positively associated with breadth of self-disclosure and; relaxing entertainment and self-expression are positively related to the depth of self-disclosure. Meanwhile, social interaction is negatively associated with depth of self-disclosure. However, information sharing is not related to depth of self-disclosure and relaxing entertainment is not related to breadth of self-disclosure.

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The Core Elements of Motivational Factors that Influence Facebook Users to Self-Disclosure

Ajis¹

2020

IJBM

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“…Not astonishingly, considering its popularity, many recent studies have been conducted on Facebook use (García-Domingo, Aranda & Fuentes, 2017;Cuesta, Eklund, Rydin & Witt, 2019;Madge, Meek, Wellens & Hooley, 2009;Kabilan, 2016;Santos & Čuta, 2015;Gwena, Chinyamurindi & Marange, 2018) and the use of WhatsApp .…”

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Social media usage among pre-service secondary mathematics teachers in Zambia

Mulenga

Prieto

2020

J. Res. Adv. Math. Educ

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Social media technologies have reshaped our lives today and Zambian teachers do a massive use of smart phones, tablets, and other portable tools. In addition, they are continually searching for forefront innovations. Frequently, the utilization of these gadgets is not in manners foreseen by innovation advocates. This study focuses on exploring the use of social media platforms and the impact of such social networking services in the teaching and learning of mathematics by pre-service teachers. To explore pre-service teachers’ use of social media in their teaching and learning experiences, the authors administered an adapted and validated research instrument via a quantitative survey system to a sample of 102 pre-service teachers from the Copperbelt University. Analysis of variance and multiple regression analysis were used to test the interplay of relationships between pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards the use of social media based on year of study and gender, social media use and classroom integration, social media use, and mathematics pedagogy. Further, a statistical test was run to show whether positive correlations existed or not. Results disclosed that respondents showed an average use of social media tools in mathematics and provide a prediction model for pre-service teachers’ future integration of social media in the teaching and learning of mathematics.

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“…A finding which aims to unearths the motives of students for engaging in YouTube revealed that most of the students read comments for entertainment besides seeking information (Zolkepli & Kamarulzaman, 2015) but did not write for the same purpose (Muyingo, 2017). Some researchers found that there are statistically significant differences exist in social media usage by gender in which number of women users on social media compared to men were found (Gwena, Chinyamurindi, & Marange, 2018;Khan, 2017). In this study, it also aims to investigate whether there is any significant difference in the factors contributing to the use of social media across the gender among primary school pupils.…”

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Using social media in writing among Primary School pupils

Yuk¹,

Yunus

Suliman

2019

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The advancement of technology has brought transformation in education. Utilisation of social media to promote learning are increasing exponentially at secondary and tertiary education levels. However, the researcher was still doubting using social media on current primary school pupils. Thus, this study aimed to explore the use of social media among primary school pupils and how they perceive towards the use of English in writing on social media. Questionnaires were distributed among 37 primary 4 pupils in a Chinese vernacular school in a Southern state in Malaysia. The findings showed that YouTube is the most prominent tool used among the pupils and they have good competency in using the social media which they always use. Pupils use social media for academically and non-academically purposes. However, slightly more than half of the pupils do not have positive perceptions towards using English in writing on social media. Social media could be exploited in learning writing activities to increase the awareness of pupils towards a better writing performance.

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

Cited by 13 publications

References 41 publications

The Core Elements of Motivational Factors that Influence Facebook Users to Self-Disclosure

The Core Elements of Motivational Factors that Influence Facebook Users to Self-Disclosure

Social media usage among pre-service secondary mathematics teachers in Zambia

Using social media in writing among Primary School pupils

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