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Article Name :
USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES BY RESEARCH SCHOLARS OF SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE: A STUDY OF ASSAM UNIVERSITY, SILCHAR.
Author Name :
Anil Kumar , S. N. Singh
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ISRJ-615
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Abstract :
Present paper aims to study the purpose and effectiveness of using Social Networking Sites (SNSs) in information communication and research by the Research Scholars of school of Physical science Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India. The study conducted through a well structured questionnaire administrated among the research scholars of school of physical science of the university. It was observed that most of the respondents were found to be aware and making affective use of such Sites in their communication and research. The majority of the research scholars who are using SNSs for various purposes having more than 200 friends/contact on SNSs. It was revealed from the study that facebook is the most popular SNS followed by LinkedIn by all categories of research scholars.
Keywords :
  • social networking sites (snss)
  • ict
  • world wide web
  • facebook
  • linkedin