Abstract
Social media use by university students attracted the interest of several scholars worldwide. However, a limited amount of research articles was published to investigate the students' attitudes towards social media usage in the Arab world universities. As a case study, the core objective of this research is to measure the students' attitudes towards the use of social media at an academic institute in Oman. The study intends to examine the differences in these attitudes from the lenses of several attributes, including gender, age, year of study, and social media application. A total of 198 students took part in the study through an online survey. Although the findings showed no significant differences in attitudes with regard to the aforementioned studied attributes, it is imperative to report that all the participated students were mutually interested in using social media applications in learning practices.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2019 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2019 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 176-179 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781728126135 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
| Name | 2019 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2019 |
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Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 IEEE.
Keywords
- higher education
- social media
- students' attitudes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computer Science Applications
- Aerospace Engineering
- Automotive Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computational Mathematics
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
- Instrumentation