1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
1.2 Statement of problem
1.3 Objective of the study
1.4 Research Hypotheses
1.5 Significance of the study
1.6 Scope and limitation of the study
1.7 Definition of terms
1.8 Organization of the study
CHAPETR TWO
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW
CHAPETR THREE
3.0 Research methodology
3.1 sources of data collection
3.3 Population of the study
3.4 Sampling and sampling distribution
3.5 Validation of research instrument
3.6 Method of data analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
4.1 Introductions
4.2 Data analysis
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Summary
5.3 Conclusion
5.4 Recommendation
Appendix
ABSTRACT
This study is on social media and its effect on student and studies. The total population for the study is 200 students in university of Uyo. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made final year students, year four students, year three students and year two students were used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the study
Advances in Internet technologies have spurred on compelling changes in how we interact, communicate, learn, and build knowledge. For much of the connected world, it permeates nearly every aspect of our existence from shopping and banking, to communication and education among many other pursuits (Tariq, Mehboob, Khan, & Ullah, 2012). In general, worldwide Internet users have increased rapidly between 2005 and 2014 (Freund & Weinhold, 2002). In 2015, there were 6.5 billion Internet users around the world and in 2014 they became 7.2 billion (Singh, 2017). The Internet and in particular social media applications such as Facebook, YouTube and many others, are obviously “overtaking the world” and could be regarded as “a global consumer phenomenon” (Camilia, Ibrahim, & Dalhatu, 2013). According to Grossman (2010) if Facebook were a country it would be the third largest country after China and India and twice as big as the United States of America. According to Facebook statistics “more than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums) are shared each month” and “People on Facebook install 20 million applications everyday” (2011,PARA.2&4). On YouTube every minute, 10 hours of content are uploaded to the video sharing platform.
The internet is more than just a means of seeking information. People have discovered that the Internet can be used to connect with other people for business or commercial purpose, to make new friends, or to reawaken old friends and long lost relatives. The emergence of social media simplifies the process because they do not require advanced internet knowledge or experience and are made up of a wide array of different formats and topics. This means that anyone can connect through social media. With such extensive acceptance, it is no surprise that social media have impacted the way people live and socialize. Social media are also being used by teachers and students as a communication tool, especially in the West. It is a bidirectional process as students are using these mediums to share comments with their teachers.
According to Boyd and Ellison, Social network site is a web based service which allows people to sign up in a bounded system, articulating group of people within the same system so as to share personal or academic related information. This indicates that social media entails a place where people connect with each other and share common issues relating to relationship, sports, politics or academics. However, Boyd and Ellison argue that participants from certain social media sites are not primarily there to connect with people they are not familiar with, rather they sign up to connect and catch up with loss but found offline friends as well as close ones. Social network sites have attracted considerable attention among scholars and educators due to the growing popularity among students and the potential effect on academic performance. However, the studies appear from two opposing views on the impact of social media on users. While proponents argue that it allows users in connecting people of common interest and value, opponents claim that excessive use of these sites affect the social, mental and physical health of the users.
Many students who have access to the social media waste their time on it by chatting and surfing the internet for non-educative information. They are glued to their phones all day making them loose sense of time. Some students are also seen pressing their phones during classes, seminars and also in the libraries. Some of them will even plug in their ear pieces and hum out the songs they are listening to when studying which reduce their rates of assimilation and act as a source of disturbances to others around them. In a bid to know what is going on in the world and to be current with events, they are always seen on the internet reading, browsing and reading fashion and social blogs. There is obvious a great decrease in student’s passion to read for pleasure and enjoyment but instead prefer to seek pleasure from the media by streaming videos on Social Media and playing with their Smart phones. The main reason why they now read is just to pass examination and not to gain knowledge. This has reduced the vast use and development of the brain. Students are no more learning through reading. Students who so much devote their times on networking have a great tendency of having low grades, poor academic performance and become unsuccessful.
The social media also have numerous positive impacts. Firstly, it enhances learning and education. Students, with the help of the Internet now have access to all form of information. Nothing is strange to ‘google’. No matter how old the information is, the internet serves as search lights to them. Some information that cannot be found in the libraries and research centers are now available online. The use of search engines such as Google and Google Scholar has helped many students in their educational life. The world is now a small place where there is circulation of knowledge and information. Some educational problems encountered by students are being discussed and solved through interaction with online counselors. Distance learning is made possible by the use of social media. Many universities now offer online courses to the public. The social media has brought education and learning to our doorsteps. No need of traveling and risking lives just to study. Options of studying abroad when in Nigeria are open to students who are not financially buoyant to travel out of the country. Lecturers now prefer assignments and projects to be submitted to their emails. Lecture notes, handouts and reading materials are made available by the teachers online and downloaded by the students. This reduces cost of making photocopies and the risk of misplacing them.
Individual’s beliefs and self-acceptance based on evaluation of self on different components of the environment could influence students’ attitudes toward the use social media. An assessment of the influence of social media on the academic performance of students can become a decisive step towards the effort to stem the trend of attitudes toward the use social media.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Social media is the connection of friends or family together which allows one to communicate easily. With media one can have a long chain of friends chat, or share information or ideal with. According to Boyd & Ellison (2008), Social networking sites can be defined as web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. At the most basic level social networking sites allow users to set up online profiles or personal homepages, and develop an online social network. The profile page functions as the user’s own webpage and includes profile information ranging from their date of birth, gender, religion, politics and hometown, to their favourite films, books quotes and what they like doing in their spare time. In addition to profile information, users can design the appearance of their page, and add content such as photos, video clips, music and files.
1.3 Objectives of the Study
The purpose of this research is to determine whether the social media affect the academic performance of students in Nigeria. This research will be carried out with the following objectives:
- a) to discover the reasons why the Nigerian students use the social networking sites
- b) to determine the ways social media can be used as a platform for educational learning among Nigerian students
- c) to establish the uses and gratifications drawn from social media and its effects of learning among Nigerian students
RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
For the successful completion of the study, the following research hypotheses were formulated by the researcher;
H0: there are no reasons why the Nigerian students use the social networking sites
H1: there are reasons why the Nigerian students use the social networking sites
H02: there is no significant relationship social media and its effects of learning among Nigerian students
H2: there is significant relationship between social media and its effects of learning among Nigerian students
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
An understanding of social media, it usage and how it is influencing students learning environment would be of great relevance to students, researcher, student’s affairs practitioners and all the various bodies that comes to play when talking of social media and school life. The outcome of the study will help to strategize and reconstruct their attitude regarding the use of social media. It will also push people further to identify the exciting opportunities social media add to human and student life as a whole
SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The scope of the study covers Social Media and its effect on student and studies. The researcher encounters some constraints which limit the scope of the study namely:
AVAILABILITY OF RESEARCH MATERIAL: The research material available to the researcher is insufficient, thereby limiting the study
TIME: The time frame allocated to the study does not enhance wider coverage as the researcher has to combine other academic activities and examinations with the study.
Financial constraint– Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet, questionnaire and interview).
1.9 DEFINITION OF TERMS
SOCIAL MEDIA: Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation or sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks
STUDENT: A student is primarily a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution who attends classes in a course to attain the appropriate level of mastery of a subject under the guidance
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: Academic performance or “academic achievement” is the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has attained their short or long-term educational goals. Completion of educational benchmarks such as secondary school diplomas and bachelor’s degrees represent academic achievement.
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