Journal articles: 'College students – Social networks – Nigeria'

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Chaka, John G., and Irene Govender. "IMPLEMENTATION OF MOBILE LEARNING USING A SOCIAL NETWORK PLATFORM: FACEBOOK." Problems of Education in the 21st Century 78, no. 1 (February 12, 2020): 24–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/pec/20.78.24.

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This research set out to determine the use of a social networking platform, Facebook, as a medium for learning and teaching. Using a combination of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model, Information Systems (IS) success model and the educational use of Facebook theory, a conceptual framework was developed for implementation of mobile learning and teaching. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to determine a model for the implementation of mobile learning and teaching. A sample of 330 respondents was used in this research. The data were analysed using structural equation modelling. The aim was to determine to what extent mobile learning is acceptable to colleges of education in Nigeria. Lecturers from a federal college of education in Nigeria were used to test the implementation of mobile learning using Facebook as a medium of communication. Four courses were selected as part of the intervention programme. The research revealed that m-learning significantly improves the teaching and learning conditions in colleges of education, specifically by reducing the inadequacies of physical facilities, and by improving the reading culture and performance of students. The results further indicate that most of the stakeholders are satisfied with the benefits of m-learning and wish to continue using the Facebook and their mobile phones. Keywords: educational system, quantitative approach, mobile learning, Facebook, SEM.

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Melton, James, Robert Miller, and Michelle Salmona. "Online Social Networks." International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change 3, no. 2 (April 2012): 24–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijissc.2012040102.

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Previous research has shown that many college students in the United States post content to social networking sites that they know would be considered inappropriate by employers and other authority figures. However, the phenomenon has not been extensively studied in cross-cultural context. To address this knowledge gap, a survey of college students in Australia, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the United States was conducted. The study found a universal tendency among the four groups: students knew the content they were posting would be considered inappropriate by employers and other authority figures, but they chose to post it anyway. The article also reports on differences in the way this tendency was manifested and on related aspects of social networking across cultures, including decisions about privacy and information disclosure.

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Meisel, Matthew K., and Adam S. Goodie. "Predicting prescription drug misuse in college students' social networks." Addictive Behaviors 45 (June 2015): 110–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2015.01.025.

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Carolan-Silva, Aliah, and J. Roberto Reyes. "Navigating the Path to College: Latino Students’ Social Networks and Access to College." Educational Studies 49, no. 4 (July 2013): 334–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2013.808199.

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Erlin, Triyani Arita Fitri, and Susandri. "Using Social Networks: Facebook Usage at the Riau College Students." Procedia Computer Science 59 (2015): 559–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.07.543.

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Mason, Michael J., Nikola Zaharakis, and Eric G. Benotsch. "Social Networks, Substance Use, and Mental Health in College Students." Journal of American College Health 62, no. 7 (September 16, 2014): 470–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2014.923428.

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Bogat, G. Anne, Robert A. Caldwell, Fred A. Rogosch, and Julie Ann Kriegler. "Differentiating specialists and generalists within college students' social support networks." Journal of Youth and Adolescence 14, no. 1 (February 1985): 23–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02088644.

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Afe, Taiwo Opekitan, Olawale Ogunsemi, and Abimbola Oyelekan. "Social distancing toward gays and lesbians among college students in Lagos, Nigeria." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services 31, no. 4 (September 9, 2019): 546–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10538720.2019.1654424.

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Potkány, Marek, and Alexandra Hajduková. "Social Networks and their Importance in Job Searching of College Students." Verslas: Teorija ir Praktika 16, no. 1 (March 30, 2015): 75–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/btp.2015.462.

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At present, in every sphere of human activity, using modern ICT is considered as a matter of course. Several human resources management institutions are aware of the potential of social networks in estabilishing and building relationships with their target groups. It is a trend to create job portals in social networks. These are currently an integrated part of communication with target audience and therefore also an objects of attention and reflexions. It is also the topic of this paper. The goal of this research is to determine the level of use of social networks by college students in Slovakia. Part of the research is also to discover the effect of social networks on job searching of a selected sample of students. The research was conducted on a sample of 407 slovak students. A questioning method in form of an online questionnaire was used. The obtained results were processed using methods of descriptive and test statistics. We studied the significance of gender on the frequency of using the internet to search for job opportunities via social networks, as well as the ability to apprehend the importance of personal presentation on social networks. The statistical testing did not prove any significant difference between men and women in the question of frequency of using internet to search for job opportunities, nor in the ability to apprehend the importance of personal presentation on social networks. A statistically significant difference in gender was proven only in case of using social networks in job searching. Women tend to use social networks to find jobs more often than men. These statements are proved by the results of tests of significance of mean changes at the 5% significance level, which means that they are valid with 95% probability.

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Durm, Mark W. "Marriage and Stress-Coping among Female College Students." Psychological Reports 85, no. 2 (October 1999): 438. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1999.85.2.438.

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By an independent t test, mean scores on the social domain of the Coping Resources Inventory for 18 single and for 18 married female students were not significantly different, suggesting similar involvement in social networks supportive during stress.

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Chakradhar, Kala, Victor Raj, and Arabella Raj. "Modern Social Support Structures: Online Social Networks and their Implications for Social Workers." Advances in Social Work 10, no. 2 (March 19, 2009): 157–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/198.

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Mapping and assessing social networks and the quality of their social support is a valuable intervention strategy for social workers. These networks have now spread onto the digital realm in the form of Online Social Networks (OSNs). This study investigated the nature of social support provided by such networks to their users in a rural mid-South University (USA) and explored parallels with the current understanding of social support in conventional social networks. A web-based survey administered to college students revealed that users of these online networks were predominantly undergraduate first year students, female, single, unemployed and from a variety of academic disciplines. The examination of the components of OSNs appears to mirror those of offline networks. They also seem to complement the effects of each other while contributing to an individual's support system. The paper concludes with critical implications of such online social networking for University students and social workers in practice and education.

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Elliott, Diane Cárdenas, Meghan W. Brenneman, Lauren Carney, and Steve Robbins. "Social Networks and Minority Male College Access: The “Tip of the Iceberg” Phenomena." Urban Education 53, no. 10 (November 27, 2015): 1210–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042085915613551.

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Using a qualitative approach, we sought to understand the social networks and decision-making strategies of minority males as they choose to attend a postsecondary institution. Data were obtained from interviews where students self-report perceptions of their college transition process. Our findings suggest that students’ social networks are inefficient, disrupted, and fractured resulting in prominent informational gaps that impacted matriculation decisions. We liken students’ knowledge about the transition to college to a tip of an iceberg; that is, participants only developed a surface-level understanding of the college process. We conclude with implications for policy and practice.

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Xu, Jing-Ya, Tao Liu, Lin-Tao Yang, Mark Davison, and Shou-Yin Liu. "Finding College Student Social Networks by Mining the Records of Student ID Transactions." Symmetry 11, no. 3 (March 1, 2019): 307. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym11030307.

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Information about college students’ social networks plays a pivotal role in college students’ mental health monitoring and student management. While there have been many studies to infer social networks by data mining, the mining of college students’ social networks lacks consideration of homophily. College students’ social behaviors show significant homophily in the aspect of major and grade. Consequently, the inferred inter-major and inter-grade social ties will be erroneously omitted without considering such an effect. In this work, we aimed to increase the fidelity of the extracted networks by alleviating the homophily effect. To achieve this goal, we propose a method that combines the sliding time-window method with the hierarchical encounter model based on association rules. Specifically, we first calculated the counts of spatial–temporal co-occurrences of each student pair. The co-occurrences were acquired by the sliding time-window method, which takes advantage of the symmetry of the social ties. We then applied the hierarchical encounter model based on association rules to extract social networks by layer. Furthermore, we propose an adaptive method to set co-occurrence thresholds. Results suggested that our model infers the social networks of students with better fidelity, with the proportion of extracted inter-major social ties in entire social ties increasing from 0.89% to 5.45% and the proportion of inter-grade social ties rising from 0.92% to 4.65%.

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Bektaş, Çetin, and Rima Fayad. "Learning framework using social media networks." Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies 7, no. 1 (June 27, 2017): 8–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjit.v7i1.1933.

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Abstract Social media networks are being used heavily by people from different social, economic, and educational backgrounds all over the world. University, college, and high-school students constitute a main faction of social media network users. In this study, a framework for student learning using social media network environment is developed. The framework is founded in the self-determination theory (SDT). The self-determination theory is one of the important theories of motivation and personality. Its focus is geared towards both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation issues. It addresses three universal innate and psychological needs: competence, autonomy, and psychological relatedness. A person’s social environment necessitates caring for these three needs in order for the person to actualize their potential, function and grow optimally. In addition to creating the social environment that caters for students’ psychological needs, for a new framework of learning using social media to be successfully adopted by students it needs to address their cognitive, emotional and contextual interests. Towards this end, this study explores and founds the conceptual grounds of a social media learning framework. Keywords: Social media network, learning, self-determination theory, motivation, competence, autonomy, relatedness.

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Hu, Lei, and Manoch Prompanyo. "The Influence of Sports Activities on College Students' Social Adaptability." International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) 15, no. 14 (July 28, 2021): 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v15i14.24801.

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<p class="0abstract">The cultivation of talents has always been the basis of the development of economy, science and technology and the overall strength of all countries. With the further deepening of China's reform and opening up, the rapid development of the market economy and the gradual improvement of the level of information technology, the education sector is paying more attention to the cultivation of talents in all walks of life in China. As for college students is about to walk into society, how to learned during college all kinds of professional knowledge and skills in the future life and work, how reasonable in the future workplace, properly handle interpersonal relationships, how to better integrate into social life, reflect their own value, and to raise their competitive strength, and observe the rules and regulations, laws and regulations, Have a good moral integrity, set up the correct world outlook, outlook on life, values. All these are closely related to the social adaptability of college students. Physical education is an important way to implement quality-oriented education and cultivate talents with all-round development, which was clearly pointed out in the Guidelines for Physical Education Course Teaching in National Colleges and Universities issued in 2002.In the given physical education teaching objectives also explains that the students are required to show good sports ethics and cooperative spirit as well as correctly deal with the relationship between competition and cooperation.</p>

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Tsai, Tien-I. "The social networks in the information horizons of college students: A pilot study." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 47, no. 1 (November 2010): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504701347.

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Kemal Çelik, Ali, and Abdulkerim Karaaslan. "Predictors of college students’ willingness to use social network services." Campus-Wide Information Systems 31, no. 5 (October 28, 2014): 304–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cwis-01-2014-0003.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine predictors of social network services use among college students at two Turkish universities, with particular emphasis on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Instagram. Design/methodology/approach – A written questionnaire was administered to 822 college students from various faculties. The data obtained from the corresponding questionnaire were analyzed using ordered logit analysis and four different models were independently estimated with respect to social network services. Findings – Ordered logit estimation results revealed that frequency of log in to social network sites, time spent on social network sites, and following event alerts were three predictors that had significant impact on the frequency of all four social network sites’ use. Particularly; event participation, information sharing, following on top ranked topics, and purchasing a product through social media were the other additional predictors of college students’ willingness to use the corresponding social network sites. Originality/value – Although a vast literature exists on the use of social network services among college students, relatively little work was published which compares several social network services and predictors of their use. This paper may contribute to the existing literature by presenting the predictors of college students’ use of four different social network services in a specific area of Turkey and providing a comprehensive comparison between them.

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Florenthal, Bela. "Applying uses and gratifications theory to students’ LinkedIn usage." Young Consumers 16, no. 1 (April 20, 2015): 17–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/yc-12-2013-00416.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore what motivates college students to use LinkedIn and what inhibits them from fully adopting it. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative approach applying a “uses and gratifications” framework was used to identify the motives of and barriers faced by college students with respect to the LinkedIn usage. The study includes data collected from 30 upper-level, undergraduate business students. Findings – Four uses and gratifications categories emerged explaining why college students would be willing to use LinkedIn. Three categories – interpersonal communication, online identity and information – are similar to those identified for using social networks, such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. Career development was found to be a category gratifying only LinkedIn users. Barriers to LinkedIn adoption included students’ ignorance of the network and the erroneous perception that a presence on LinkedIn should be initiated and/or developed only after graduation. Originality/value – College students’ behavior on social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace, was extensively researched employing the uses and gratifications theory. LinkedIn has recently reached about 200 million users, of which about 30 million are college students and recent graduates. Still, students’ motives, usage patterns and barriers associated with LinkedIn have not been well-documented, which creates a gap that this study attempts to address. The aim is to shed light on what motivates students to use a professional network as opposed to using social networks and what key barriers might prevent college students from fully capitalizing on LinkedIn’s features.

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Ojewumi, Kehinde A., and Damilare A. Fagbenro. "Entrepreneurial Intention among Polytechnic Students in Self- Efficacy and Social Networks." International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge 7, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 20–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ijek-2019-0002.

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Abstract This study was carried out to examine the role of self-efficacy and social networks on entrepreneurial intention among polytechnic students in Ile - Ife Osun state, Nigeria. Theory of Reasoned action was used as a theoretical framework for this study. A survey design was adopted. The data for this study was collected in 2018 via a purposive sampling technique, where 240 students (81 females and 159 males) with age range of 21–35 years (M = 23.61, SD = 2.63) were selected from one polytechnic. Inferential statistics (t-test for independent measure) was used to test the hypotheses in this study. Result showed that there was significant difference between entrepreneurial intention of polytechnic students with low self-efficacy and high self-efficacy. There was significant difference between entrepreneurial intention of polytechnic students with low social network and high social network. Therefore, to improve entrepreneurial intention among polytechnic students, psychologists should organize psycho-educational interventions aim at increasing self-efficacy and social networks of polytechnic students.

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Seder, J. Patrick, and Shigehiro Oishi. "Ethnic/racial homogeneity in college students’ Facebook friendship networks and subjective well-being." Journal of Research in Personality 43, no. 3 (June 2009): 438–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2009.01.009.

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Bowman, Nicholas A., Lindsay Jarratt, Linnea A. Polgreen, Thomas Kruckeberg, and Alberto M. Segre. "Early Identification of Students’ Social Networks: Predicting College Retention and Graduation via Campus Dining." Journal of College Student Development 60, no. 5 (2019): 617–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/csd.2019.0052.

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Johnson, Anthony M. "‘‘I Can Turn It on When I Need To’’: Pre-college Integration, Culture, and Peer Academic Engagement among Black and Latino/a Engineering Students." Sociology of Education 92, no. 1 (December 7, 2018): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038040718817064.

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Drawing on interviews with 38 black and Latino/a engineering students at a predominantly white, elite university, I use a cultural analytic framework to explicate the role of pre–college integration in the heterogeneous psychosocial and academic experiences of students of color on predominantly white campuses. I identify three cultural strategies students of color adopt to navigate the university’s ethnoracially segregated peer network landscape and more specifically, engage majority–white academic peer networks: integration, marginalized segregation, and social adaptation. Integrators, who hail from predominantly white high schools, engage majority–white academic networks with ease, do not experience ethnoracial marginalization, and form predominantly white networks in college. Marginalized segregators, who come from predominantly black, Latino/a, or mixed high schools, exhibit discomfort engaging majority–white academic networks, experience ethnoracial marginalization, and form predominantly same–race or co–ethnic networks in college. Finally, social adapters, who come from high schools with varying ethnoracial compositions, manage their experiences with ethnoracial marginalization to engage majority–white academic networks with ease, and the ethnoracial composition of their college networks varies. The findings extend previous scholarship on the experiences of black and Latino/a students on predominantly white campuses and uncover the cultural processes that contribute to the reproduction of inequality among students of color.

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Skahill, Michael P. "The Role of Social Support Network in College Persistence among Freshman Students." Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice 4, no. 1 (May 2002): 39–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/lb7c-9ayv-9r84-q2q5.

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This study examined the role of social support networks in student persistence among residential and commuter students at an urban technical arts college for a 12-week duration. Fifteen commuter students and 25 residential students completed the study. The research methodology was social network analysis. Findings indicate that commuter students are less likely to persist in their college studies, students residing in student housing facilities experience significant and abrupt changes in social network density. However, residential students who reported making greater numbers of new friends with connections to the school also reported attaining personal and academic goals at a rate significantly greater than other subjects. The article concludes with a discussion about the role and importance of a socially connected academic community to learning and persistence.

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Wu, Chun Wang. "Study on Factors of College Student's Network Service Time Based on Bayesian Networks." Applied Mechanics and Materials 484-485 (January 2014): 996–1000. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.484-485.996.

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Due to the uncertainty of the factors that influence the network service time and other characters of college student, Bayesian Network is used to model this kind of system. Different algorithms are used for learning Bayesian Networks in order to compare several models. It is suggested that researchers can use Bayesian Networks to explore the potential relationship between variables of complex social problems. The result indicates that learning target and family closeness degree are the key variables which influenced college students network service time. Origin of student and family economy didnt influence college students network service time directly. Schools and community should strengthen the education of college students life planning and communication with parents.

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Hamzah, Imam Faisal, Zaldhi Yusuf Akbar, and Gisella Arnis Grafiyana. "Social Identity of Non-Moslem Students In Muhammadiyah Universities." Halaqa: Islamic Education Journal 5, no. 1 (January 3, 2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.21070/halaqa.v5i1.1109.

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Education in Indonesia, especially higher education institutions, has a role to build interaction between religious adherents. How is this experience of tolerance in religiously based higher education institutions where the majority of students and staff are religious according to the institution. One of the largest religious-based higher education networks in Indonesia is the Muhammadiyah Universities or Perguruan Tinggi Muhammadiyah (PTM) network. Muhammadiyah as one of the largest Islamic organizations in Indonesia which has a network of higher education spread across various parts of Indonesia where students studying have diverse religious backgrounds. This study aimed to examine the dynamics of social identity in the experience of non-Moslem students at Muhammadiyah College. This research uses qualitative research methods using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Six participants, Christian, Catholic, Hindu, and Buddhist from four Muhammadiyah College in the province of Central Java - Indonesia, were interviewed and analyzed to obtain core themes. The results of this study produced five superordinate themes, namely the influence of the environment, personal characteristics, perceptions of the religion adopted, experience as a Muhammadiyah College Student, and perceptions of Islam and Muhammadiyah. The conclusion of this study shows the psychological dynamics of non-Muslim students shape the perception of Islam itself as a religion, also Muhammadiyah as an Islamic organization.

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Tian, Qiang, Rui Wang, Shijie Li, Wenjun Wang, Ou Wu, Faming Li, and Pengfei Jiao. "College Students’ Psychological Health Analysis Based on Multitask Gaussian Graphical Models." Complexity 2021 (February 1, 2021): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5710459.

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Understanding and solving the psychological health problems of college students have become a focus of social attention. Complex networks have become important tools to study the factors affecting psychological health, and the Gaussian graphical model is often used to estimate psychological networks. However, previous studies leave some gaps to overcome, including the following aspects. (1) When studying networks of subpopulations, the estimation neglects the intrinsic relationships among subpopulations, leading to a large difference between the estimated network and the real network. (2) Because of the high cost, previous psychological surveys often have a small sample size, and the psychological description is insufficient. Here, the intrinsic connections among multiple tasks are used, and multitask machine learning is applied to develop a multitask Gaussian graphical model. The psychological networks of the population and subpopulations are estimated based on psychological questionnaire data. This study is the first to apply a psychological network to such a large-scale college student psychological analysis, and we obtain some interesting results. The model presented here is a dynamic model based on complex networks which predicts individual behavior and provides insight into the intrinsic links among various symptoms.

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Chinawa, Awoere T., Josephat M. Chinawa, Edmund N. Ossai, Ann E. Aronu, and Vivian O. Onukwuli. "The COVID 19 Pandemic: College Adolescents’ Perception on School Reopening in Nigeria." Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology 11, no. 2 (May 17, 2021): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jedp.v11n2p29.

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BACKGROUND: Several colleges were closed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is not clear if school closure has curbed the incidence of the infection. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to determine the perception of adolescent college students on school reopening and associated factors. METHODOLOGY: This was a school-based cross-sectional study. A two-stage sampling technique was used to select five hundred adolescent college students from six secondary schools in the Enugu metropolis, Nigeria. Data were analysed with IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) statistical software version 25. RESULTS: The mean age of the students was 15.1±1.7 years and the majority, 56.4% were females. A higher proportion of the respondents, 78.0% were willing to return to school. For those not willing to return to school, the major reason was the preference for homestay until the pandemic is over, 57.3%. The majority of the students, 67.6% had their learning improved during the pandemic. More than half of the students, 65.0% had online classes during the pandemic. Predictors of willingness to return to school amidst the COVID-19 pandemic included being a male student, (AOR=0.304, 95%CI: 0.189-0.489), and being from a family of high socio-economic class, (AOR=0.363, 95%CI: 0.154- 0.855). CONCLUSION: Closure of schools should be revisited, with enforcement of all preventive measures. Alternative methods for education such as e-learning seem to create a divide between the rich and the poor. It is therefore pertinent to develop a bridging plan to fill the gap created by this divide.

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A, Vijayasankari. "Effect of Social Media on Medical College Student’s Behaviour in Chennai." Psychology and Mental Health Care 4, no. 5 (August 8, 2020): 01–03. http://dx.doi.org/10.31579/2637-8892/089.

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Background: Social networks include websites and applications that allow users to share content, ideas, opinions, beliefs, feelings, and personal, social, and educational experiences. Thus, considering the key role of students in promoting the quality of physical and mental health of society, and also due to the lack of knowledge on the type of relationship between social networking addiction and academic performance of the students of medical sciences, the present study was designed and implemented. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of social media among the students of medical sciences and their behaviour changes. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among medical students. Stratified random sampling was used. The study tools included personal information form and the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS-18.0. Results: Most of the students are using social media for studies and to talk with their friends and whenever they feel alone. Conclusion: Over all the social media use age was moderate. Overall, social media appeared to be very useful tool for students’ community as they use them to improve their studies and carrier development. However, their negative effects seemed to be very poor as compared to their positive effects.

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Yunis, Edrees S. "The Effectiveness of Using Social Communication Networks in Teaching Geography to Develop Academic Achievement and Self-Efficacy Of College of Education Students." Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies [JEPS] 9, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jeps.vol9iss1pp197-210.

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The present study aimed to assess the effectiveness of using social communication networks in teaching geography to develop academic achievement and self-efficacy of college of education students. For achieving that, the researcher prepared a teaching guide, a test in academic achievement and a scale of self-efficacy in teaching. The study sample was (86) students, divided into two groups; the experimental group was (42) students and the control group was (44) students. The pre – test was conducted on both groups; experimental and control. The experimental group studied the course using social networks (Facebook) where the control group studied the course using the traditional method. Then, the post – test was conducted on both groups. The study results showed significant statistical differences between mean scores of the experimental group students and that of the control group students on the post test of the academic achievement test and the scale of self-efficacy in teaching in favor of the experimental group students. This suggests the effectiveness of using social communication networks in teaching geography to develop academic achievement and selfefficacy of college of education students.

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Shah, Jaymeen R., and Hsun-Ming Lee. "Building Online Social Networks to Engage Female Students in Information Systems." International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies 10, no. 4 (October 2015): 33–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijwltt.2015100103.

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During the next decade, enrollment growth in Information Systems (IS) related majors is unlikely to meet the predicted demand for qualified IS graduates. Gender imbalance in the IS related program makes the situation worse as enrollment and retention of women in the IS major has been proportionately low compared to male. In recent years, majority of high school and college students have integrated social networking sites in their daily life and habitually use these sites. Providing female students access to role models via an online social network may enhance their motivation to continue as an IS major and pursue a career in IS field. For this study, the authors follow the action research process – exploration of information systems development. In particular, a Facebook application was developed to build the social network connecting role models and students. Using the application, a basic framework is tested based on the gender of participants. The results suggest that it is necessary to have adequate number of role models accessible to students as female role-models tend to select fewer students to develop relationships with a preference for female students. Female students likely prefer composite role models from a variety of sources. This pilot study yields valuable lessons to provide informal learning fostered by role modeling via online social networks. The Facebook application may be further expanded to enhance female students' interests in IS related careers.

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Duncheon, Julia C., and Stefani R. Relles. "Brokering College Opportunity for First-Generation Youth: The Role of the Urban High School." American Educational Research Journal 56, no. 1 (August 10, 2018): 146–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0002831218788335.

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Social capital research has demonstrated the value of relationships and networks to enhance college opportunity for first-generation students. While most work has focused on individual students and their ties, high schools play a critical role in social capital processes by connecting students to external college access organizations and resources. This case study employs Mario Small’s organizational brokerage theory to investigate social capital formation among college-bound first-generation youth in an urban high school. Specifically, we explore how the school itself brokered college-going resources through its partner organizations. Findings illustrate a range of passive and active brokerage strategies that influenced the quantity and quality of available resources, and in turn, the amount of student agency required to secure social capital gains.

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Qiu, Mingyue, and Yitao Yang. "Analysis of the Current Situation and Characteristics of College Student “Online Fraud Cases”." International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications 12, no. 2 (April 2021): 56–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijmcmc.2021040104.

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In the internet era, the college student groups are internet users who use the internet more widely and deeply than the ordinary internet users. However, college students have insufficient social experience and live in a relatively simple living environment for a long time, which makes them have low ability to distinguish the true from the false, so they are easily targeted by cyber scammers. This paper analyzes the causes and the basic types of online fraud cases that happened to college students; the fraud case data are classified and sorted to extract the salient features of the telecom network fraud cases of college students and the common features of the victims. The paper provides suggestions for guiding college students to learn to screen online fraud and self-protect and to cultivate more comprehensive high-quality talents.

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Derryberry, W. Pitt, and Stephen J. Thoma. "The Friendship Effect." About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience 5, no. 2 (May 2000): 13–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/108648220000500204.

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The research results are clear: After four years of college, students experience growth in moral judgment. What isn't clear is why. What is it about going to college that contributes to the development of moral thinking? The authors point to something in the college environment that has little to do with the curriculum or the cocurriculum—students’ friendships and social networks.

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Min, Nie, Yang Lei, Luo Weimin, Guowu Yang, and Hu Xia. "Influence of Student Depression on the Spread of Public Opinion in University." Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 2020 (September 23, 2020): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/9378037.

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In this study, we examined the impact of college students’ mental health on their social behavior. A social network was identified based on the behavior of college students sharing a meal. We analyzed the impact of depression on the structure of this network and found that students without obvious depressive symptoms, based on the test data of the SCL-90 Assessment Scale, were better at socializing than students with obvious depressive symptoms. We proposed a public opinion spreading model on social networks and formulated a heterogeneous mean-field theory to describe it. Further, using computer simulation experiments, we studied the impact of students’ mental health on the process of information propagation in college. The results of the experiments showed that students without obvious depressive symptoms were more likely to receive information than students with obvious depressive symptoms. Based on the results of our study, college psychological consultants can actively identify students who may be at risk of mental illness and give them attention and guidance.

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Belhaj, Eyad, and Abdulsalam Omran. "The Use of Social Networks to Activate the Optimal Communication between the College and its Students Facebook as Model." International Journal of research in Educational Sciences 4, no. 2 (March 20, 2021): 251–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.29009/ijres.4.2.7.

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The study aimed to identify the degree of use of social networking, Facebook in the activation of optimal communication between the college and its students, by measuring the degrees of publishing, response and privacy, In addition to reveal whether there are statistically significant differences between the responses of the sample used in the study attributed to the variables of the study i.e. sex, specialization, in order to reach a proposed concept. The study used the descriptive analytical method to achieve its objectives. the data were collected by means of a questionnaire prepared specifically for the purposes of the study and consisted of (16) paragraphs, which was verified for its validity and reliability, then it was distributed to the sample of the study which consists of (322) students male and female From the College of Applied Administrative and Financial Sciences (CAAFS) Tripoli. After conducting the necessary statistical analyzes, the study found that the degree of using the social network to activate the optimal communication between the college and its students was "medium", the scores of the college's use of its page in communicating with its students (publishing, response, privacy) were (high, weak, weak) respectively. It also did not reveal statistically significant differences at (α = 0.05) between the responses of the study sample on the communication questionnaire according to the study variables i.e. sex, specialization. The study ended with a proposal to use the social network, Facebook to activate the optimal communication between the college and its students.

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Al-Harrasi, Abir S., and Ali H. Al-Badi. "The Impact Of Social Networking: A Study Of The Influence Of Smartphones On College Students." Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER) 7, no. 2 (March 28, 2014): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/cier.v7i2.8483.

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The use of social networking by college students has become increasingly relevant to their academic lives. Smartphones have added great potential by enabling an increase in the use of social networking and in the number of hours spent on such sites. Being online for a long time and being able to access different information from different sources at the same time could cause information overload. Students could face problems in filtering the information they receive and they might find it difficult to decide which sources they can trust and, therefore, which to select. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of social networking on college students. To achieve this aim, the research employs various methodologies which include descriptive/interpretive studies of the literature and previous studies carried out by academics and industrial institutions. It also utilizes surveys taken among university students. A questionnaire was distributed among 179 students at different universities and higher education institutes in the Sultanate of Oman in order to explore the influence on college students of social networking using their smartphones. There are three main findings: 1) college students spend a long time on social networking sites, 2) college students are facing problems in trusting, filtering, and selecting all the different information accessed from social networking sites, and 3) social networks affect students in both positive and negative ways.

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Badiee, Manijeh, and Edson Andrade. "Microsystem and Macrosystem Predictors of Latinx College Students’ Depression and Anxiety." Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 18, no. 4 (April 4, 2018): 422–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1538192718765077.

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Latinx college students experience depression and anxiety similarly to other groups. Systemic factors (e.g., discrimination, family support) may exacerbate or protect from symptoms. We incorporated an ecological framework to assess family cohesion, social networks, acculturative stress, perceived discrimination, and foreigner objectification as predictors of depression and anxiety for Latinx students at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Only discrimination predicted depression and anxiety after controlling for age, gender, and birthplace. Educational and counseling implications are addressed.

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Hong, Ji-eun, Bo-eun Kim, and Sung-Won Choi. "Relationship between College Life Adjustment and Depression among Female University Students: Moderating Effects of Social Networks." Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology 39, no. 1 (February 29, 2020): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.15842/kjcp.2020.39.1.002.

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Jones, Cassandra A., and Chitra Raghavan. "Sexual Orientation, Social Support Networks, and Dating Violence in an Ethnically Diverse Group of College Students." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services 24, no. 1 (January 2012): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10538720.2011.611107.

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Oghagbon, K. E., I. Nwannadi, and G. Achinge. "Medical Students’ Perception of Learning Environment at Benue State University College of Health Sciences, Makurdi, North-Central Nigeria." Journal of BioMedical Research and Clinical Practice 1, no. 1 (April 20, 2018): 46–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.46912/1i1.201817.

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The perception by Medical Students of their learning environment impacts on their understanding of the course of study and performances. This was a descriptive study that assessed medical students’ perception of learning environment at the College of Health Sciences, Benue State University, Nigeria. The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire was applied to all the second, third and fourth year medical students to assess the following areas; student’s perception of learning (SPL), student’s perception of course organizers (SPCO), student’s academic self-perception (SASP), student’s perception of atmosphere (SPA), and student’s social self-perception (SSSP). Data was analysed with the SPSS software version 15. Out of 250 questionnaires distributed to the students, 210 (84%) were fit for analysis; 174 males (82.9%) and 36 females (17.1%) with a mean age of 24.8 years ± 3.7. Mean global score (MGS) of study was 106.3/200 (53.2%) meaning positive perception, but not reflective of students centred learning. SPCO and SSSP needs to improve at a score of 48% and 49.3% respectively as against 100%. Other domains had positive perceptions (SPL; 56%, SASP; 61.9%, and SPA; 53.5%). There was a significantly lower SPA score in those in fourth year of study compared to second and third year students. (p ˂ 0.01) Medical Students at the BSU, Nigeria have positive perception of their learning environment, but the authority can improve MGS by increasing students’ social support, and retraining the teachers.

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Oghagbon, K. E., I. Nwannadi, and G. Achinge. "Medical Students’ Perception of Learning Environment at Benue State University College of Health Sciences, Makurdi, North-Central Nigeria." Journal of BioMedical Research and Clinical Practice 1, no. 1 (April 20, 2018): 46–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.46912/jbrcp.17.

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The perception by Medical Students of their learning environment impacts on their understanding of the course of study and performances. This was a descriptive study that assessed medical students’ perception of learning environment at the College of Health Sciences, Benue State University, Nigeria. The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire was applied to all the second, third and fourth year medical students to assess the following areas; student’s perception of learning (SPL), student’s perception of course organizers (SPCO), student’s academic self-perception (SASP), student’s perception of atmosphere (SPA), and student’s social self-perception (SSSP). Data was analysed with the SPSS software version 15. Out of 250 questionnaires distributed to the students, 210 (84%) were fit for analysis; 174 males (82.9%) and 36 females (17.1%) with a mean age of 24.8 years ± 3.7. Mean global score (MGS) of study was 106.3/200 (53.2%) meaning positive perception, but not reflective of students centred learning. SPCO and SSSP needs to improve at a score of 48% and 49.3% respectively as against 100%. Other domains had positive perceptions (SPL; 56%, SASP; 61.9%, and SPA; 53.5%). There was a significantly lower SPA score in those in fourth year of study compared to second and third year students. (p ˂ 0.01) Medical Students at the BSU, Nigeria have positive perception of their learning environment, but the authority can improve MGS by increasing students’ social support, and retraining the teachers.

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Oghagbon, K. E., I. Nwannadi, and G. Achinge. "Medical Students’ Perception of Learning Environment at Benue State University College of Health Sciences, Makurdi, North-Central Nigeria." Journal of BioMedical Research and Clinical Practice 1, no. 1 (April 20, 2018): 46–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.46912/jbrcp.v1.i1.2018.17.

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The perception by Medical Students of their learning environment impacts on their understanding of the course of study and performances. This was a descriptive study that assessed medical students’ perception of learning environment at the College of Health Sciences, Benue State University, Nigeria. The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire was applied to all the second, third and fourth year medical students to assess the following areas; student’s perception of learning (SPL), student’s perception of course organizers (SPCO), student’s academic self-perception (SASP), student’s perception of atmosphere (SPA), and student’s social self-perception (SSSP). Data was analysed with the SPSS software version 15. Out of 250 questionnaires distributed to the students, 210 (84%) were fit for analysis; 174 males (82.9%) and 36 females (17.1%) with a mean age of 24.8 years ± 3.7. Mean global score (MGS) of study was 106.3/200 (53.2%) meaning positive perception, but not reflective of students centred learning. SPCO and SSSP needs to improve at a score of 48% and 49.3% respectively as against 100%. Other domains had positive perceptions (SPL; 56%, SASP; 61.9%, and SPA; 53.5%). There was a significantly lower SPA score in those in fourth year of study compared to second and third year students. (p ˂ 0.01) Medical Students at the BSU, Nigeria have positive perception of their learning environment, but the authority can improve MGS by increasing students’ social support, and retraining the teachers.

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Keen, Cheryl, and Elizabeth Baldwin. "Students promoting economic development and environmental sustainability." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 5, no. 4 (December 1, 2004): 384–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14676370410561081.

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Community‐based research has been suggested as a particularly effective form of service learning in college‐community collaborations. This paper reviews findings from interviews with alumni/ae and community partners of an environmental and economic sustainability center at Allegheny College in Northwest Pennsylvania, the Center for Economic and Environmental Development (CEED). CEED's community‐based research projects have spanned the natural and social sciences to analyze water quality, reduce waste streams and local energy consumption, identify environmental problems and enhance forest management. Interviews with alumni/ae point to the valued real world experience, enhanced cognitive development, and improved communication skills for students. Community partners valued new information and networks resulting from research and stressed the contribution they were making to college students' learning. Community‐based research projects can benefit from interviewees' recommendations to increase continuity, clarity of purpose, and follow‐through in projects, while maximizing opportunities for dialogue between community partners and students. Community‐based research may have a strong contribution to make to students' cognitive, academic, social, civic and career development.

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Muthumari, P., and S. Aravind. "Gender Variation in Use of Social Networks among Engineering College Students: A Case Study of JCT College of Engineering & Technology." Journal of Knowledge & Communication Management 2, no. 2 (2012): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/j.2277-7946.2.2.013.

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Folami, Ahmadu Bolanle, Ahmad Saeed Riaz, and Majeed Olayori Musolihu. "Critical Environmental Factors Affecting Learning in College of Education." EduLine: Journal of Education and Learning Innovation 1, no. 1 (March 24, 2021): 52–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.35877/454ri.eduline400.

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Learning environment in modern day Nigeria has not been friendly with both learners and teachers and this has created a lot of vacuum in the learning process. This study discusses the critical factors affecting learning environment. This study identifies certain factors like environmental, social, intellectual that inhibit the effective participatory of students in a learning environment. The study adopted triangulate research method and about 227 participants were involved in the administration of the questionnaire for study. The data collected from the questionnaires administered were presented through frequency percentage counts. Chi-square(X2) analysis was used for testing the hypotheses to justify the outcome of the study. Our findings, shows how much learning influence environments have on the students’ success. It also reveal that students who learn in conducive environments effectively receive the adequate knowledge and performance required of them. The study concludes that critical factors such as cultural, social, environmental etc. have negative influence on the learning environment. We recommended that learning environment in nook and crannies of the world should be given appropriate facilities and attention to make it a conducive environment for learners and as well pane way for students to have freedom to express their feeling and connections of knowledge passed across by the educators.

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Afe, TaiwoOpekitan, and Olawale Ogunsemi. "Social distancing attitudes toward the mentally ill and victims of sexual violence among college students in Southwest Nigeria." Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry 32, no. 4 (2016): 320. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9962.193654.

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Salaudeen, Kamoru Aremu, and Mariam Ayankemi Omotosho. "Online Shopping Sales Promo and its Perception Among Undergraduate Students in Osogbo, South Western Nigeria." Interações: Sociedade e as novas modernidades, no. 39 (December 31, 2020): 111–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.31211/interacoes.n39.2020.a5.

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This paper explores the perception of university undergraduates about online shopping sales promo. The researchers adopted a qualitative approach, conducting four sessions of focus group discussion (FGD) among forty students selected through purposive and snowball sampling techniques across the two colleges of the university that served as the study setting: College of Management and Social Sciences and College of Natural and Applied Sciences. The study is underpinned by the consumer perception theory which explains consumer behaviour by analyzing motivations for their buying decisions and preferences. Major findings revealed that university undergraduates in this study trust online sales promo and were active in benefiting from it while being influenced by certain factors that shaped their perception of online sales platforms and promotions. It is therefore recommended that online shops and malls need to provide more convenience, competitive price, product variety, after sales services in order to attract more patronage to for their products.

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Standlee, Alecea. "Friendship and online filtering: The use of social media to construct offline social networks." New Media & Society 21, no. 3 (October 25, 2018): 770–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444818806844.

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This article explores technologically integrated relationship practices among college students. Analyzing interviews of 52 participants at two very different US colleges, I explore how they construct, establish, and maintain technologically mediated social networks. This research focuses specifically on the practice of “doing homework,” in which participants conduct social media investigations of potential friends and use that data to determine if a relationship continues. Findings suggest the establishment of offline relationships includes the use of social media profiles to collect social and political attitude data on potential friends. Participants report the use of such data as essential to their decision-making processes about friendship, resulting in a potential increase in social and political homogeneity within offline social networks. These findings contribute to our ongoing understanding of the role of informational echo chambers within a technologically integrated social environment.

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Freeman, Eric. "Diversion or Democratization." Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 16, no. 1 (July 24, 2016): 77–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1538192716628604.

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This study examines the relationship between academic undermatch theory and the college-going decisions, experiences, and aspirations of first-generation, rural Hispanic community college students in the new destination meatpacking town of Winstead, Kansas. Ethnographic data from rural high school guidance counselors, community college faculty, and students suggest a need to emend the theory to address dynamic contextual factors such as proximity to home, familismo, place attachments, social networks, geographic location, sense of belonging, and academic validation.

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Fasae, Joseph Kehinde, and Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari. "Use of social media by science students in public universities in Southwest Nigeria." Electronic Library 34, no. 2 (April 4, 2016): 213–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/el-11-2014-0205.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of social media for academic practices by science students of public universities in Southwest Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – Descriptive design was used for the study. Research instrument used was questionnaire where 140 copies were administered to science students, using purposive sampling technique. Three institutions in southwest of Nigeria were selected for the study. Copies of the questionnaire were distributed to students in their lecture rooms and laboratories during practical classes with the permission and assistance of their lecturers. The data collected were analysed using frequency and simple percentage. Findings – The results reveal that among the various social media networks available, Facebook (93.48 per cent) is the most recognized and most famous, followed by Google+ (63.77 per cent) and Twitter (47.83 per cent). Two-third of the students make use of social media daily to remain up-to-date with trending events/news and to occupy free time when they are bored, among other reasons. The findings show that Google+ (52.17 per cent) is the most beneficial social media network followed by Facebook (29.7 per cent) and Wikia (23.91 per cent). Most of the science students are knowledgeable in the usage and application of social media, while majority of them considered poor Internet connectivity, receiving of unwanted messages/pictures and electricity failure as the leading problems encountered while using social media. Originality/value – The study was necessary to identify the use and application of social media by science students in public universities in Southwest Nigeria.

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