Effect of Social Media on Students

 

What we study:

Media has a significant impact on humans, and especially on students. Reading an article on why universities should ban social media on campuses is helpful and educative, but if you want to further understand this topic, you should continue reading.

Effect of Social Media on Students

My primary goal in this blog is to look at the effects of social media on students and determine if that effect is positive. In addition, if you want to understand how people are able to monitor their followers and know what they’re doing online, it would also be helpful to know how researchers study this relationship. I encourage you to have a thorough reading of the blog, but if you’re interested in finding out more about how I analyzed social media to determine if it was good or bad, feel free to check out my post below.

For students, my approach was to look at several factors that could influence students to be more active online. For example, researchers have been studying people who are active on Twitter and schools are seeing an increasing number of students using it to “stalk” their professors. The researchers in these studies have claimed that there has been an increase in tweets about professors on Facebook that were triggered by their tweets about universities. This is because both of these studies show that social media can provide a platform to share messages about each other, and therefore to spread a greater amount of information about school institutions.

My research included documenting how students were interacting on Twitter about subjects related to schools, and eventually, I developed a method to explore whether they were spreading negative or positive information about their school. My research looked at how students used Twitter as a source of research and personal information, as well as at how they used their Twitter accounts to monitor their followers. You should be able to follow along and see how social media has influenced students.

The Results:

As for the results, I was able to discover that students who interacted on Twitter felt more satisfied and motivated to be active on the website, had fewer followers, felt more connected to colleges, and felt good about themselves. Considering that most people do not tweet about their school, it could mean that those students chose to do so as a way to look for meaningful connections.

This would suggest that Twitter could be seen as an effective source of support for students, rather than something to be avoided.

Effect of Social Media on Students

The Results on School Regimen:

In order to determine the effect of social media on students, I think it is also important to examine the relationship between student engagement and school regimens. School administrators are trying to make improvements in the general dropout rate and graduation rate in the United States, which includes increasing their participation in social media.

Controlled Environment:

Several “controlled-environment” research studies of school websites have been completed, and these studies concluded that

  1. Campuses with high levels of participation in social media systems had better students in high school.
  2. Students in these higher schools had a high academic performance.
  3. Lower rates of felony arrests were observed.

However, researchers also stated that more than half of students were no longer actively engaging with the website and continuing to use it for the purposes of stalking their professors, so only certain students could be considered to be active participants.

Conclusion:

The summary results of the blog demonstrate that people tend to experience stress when it comes to using social media. I suggest that students try and gain a healthier relationship with social media and take that time to interact with others. This will allow them to be more successful in being active in social media and find a positive relationship with people they follow.

 

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