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Usage and Gratification of Social Media in Higher Education: A Survey on the Perceptions of International Students in Turkey
No full textThis study grounded in the user centered media theory of uses and gratification; it investigated on the usage and gratification of social media among international students pursuing higher education in Turkey, through a survey conducted on a sample of international students in Istanbul City, Turkey. The study was quantitative in nature in which structured questionnaires were used to get data on a randomly selected sample. Findings indicate that 68.2% of the respondents used social media for more than twice a week to interact with peers for studying outside classroom. Likewise, social media platform commonly used included YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp, Google group and Twitter. As a gratification, the respondents used You Tube to watch educational video clips on lectures delivered from other universities, watched Turkish videos to improve on their Turkish language skills. Facebook and Whatsapp were used for instant messaging, sharing academic information with classmates and professors. Findings indicate that using Social Media positively influenced their lifestyles and helped them to excel academically as reflected in the responses. The study therefore concludes that Social Media is an essential communication tool among international students in Turkey in supporting their higher education
Coronavirus in the era of digital connectivity: Opportunities and challenges
Get PDFIn this article, we examine the opportunities and challenges digital connectedness creates in the fight against epidemics, in particular the coronavirus (COVID-19). We deduce that digital connectedness of individuals and organizations eased sharing of information on the causes and measures aimed at controlling and avoid the rapid spread of the epidemic in developing economies of Africa. We conclude that digital connectedness enabled African countries to accessshare and implement globally suggested mechanisms aimed at controlling the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic. Future, studies should examine how African economies use digital connectedness to increase individual and organizational participation in curbing epidemics and also boost health management
Effects of Television Soaps on Students’ Academic Performance: Evidence from Uganda
Get PDFDespite the diffusion of new media technologies, Television is still a key entertainment and information
medium for the youths and it occupies much of their time alongside the other activities. Although there are
numerous studies carried out in the developed world about TV and academic performance, this area is still
novel in Uganda. This therefore, compelled the researcher to write scholarly paper on the effects of
television soaps on academic performance of students in Uganda. This paper focuses on how TV soaps
viewing affects students‘ academic performance and strategies for regulating TV soap viewing with a view
of improving academic performance in secondary school level. This paper adopted a qualitative approach
and its data was based on secondary sources and content analysis of relevant documents. Major findings
indicated that television viewership stopped students from completing homework assignments, reading and
engaging in creative plays. Similarly, TV soaps depicted bad characters such as; fraudsters, drug addicts,
rapists, murderers and since young people look at them as celebs, they copy their behaviour and
consequently became stubborn, unruly and some dropped out of school. However, the paper also envisaged
that some TV soaps are good in society as they can teach certain skills and thus should not be banned but
regulated through censorship and guiding youngsters on how to watch operas. This study recommended
that teachers, parents and TV soap producers should guard learners against the negative impacts of TV
soaps towards students
Practices of broadcast media usage in the age of new Media in Uganda
No full textYeni medya, dünya çapında radyo ve televizyon endüstrisini kökten değiştirdi ve bu etki özellikle Afrika'daki izleyiciler üzerinde de hissediliyor. Bu araştırmada, Ugandalı gençlerin yeni medya çağında radyo ve TV kullanım pratikleri büyük ölçüde incelenmiştir. Bu araştırmada hem nicel hem de nitel tasarımları birleştiren bir üçgenleme tekniği kullandım. Veri toplamada anket ve görüşme araçlarını uyguladım. Bu çalışmanın % 58,2'si erkek katılımcı iken, % 41,8'i kendilerini kadın katılımcı olarak tanımlamıştır. Araştırma sonucundaki hem nitel hem de nicel veriler, cep telefonlarının radyo programlarına erişmek için en çok kullanılan cihaz olduğunu doğruladı. Katılımcıların %52,7'si cep telefonu kullanırken günde 7 saatten fazla zaman harcadı. Araştırma ayrıca örneklem popülasyonunun %92,8'inin cep telefonuna sahip olduğunu ve bu telefondan radyo dinlediğini ortaya koydu. Ankete katılanların bir kısmı televizyondan televizyon izlemeyi tercih ederken, izleyenlerin çoğunluğu günde 1 ila 3 saat arasında izliyordu. Aynı şekilde, katılımcıların bir kısmı radyo ve TV programlarını izlemek için akıllı telefonlar kullandı. Ankete katılanların çok azı radyo ve TV programlarına erişmek için dizüstü bilgisayarları ve masaüstü bilgisayarları kullandı. Medya cihazlarına sahip olma, hem r = .004 hem de P = .000 değerlerinde, katılımcıların aylık geliri ile güçlü bir şekilde ilişkilendirilmiştir. Geleneksel radyo ve televizyonu kullanma motivasyonları konusunda hem nicel hem de nitel bulgular benzerdi, bunlar; bilgi, eğitim, eğlence ve boş zamandı. Çoğunluk sosyal TV'yi sosyal etkileşim, eğlence, arkadaşlık ve bilgi amaçlı kullanmıştır. Çalışmada, yeni medya teknolojilerinin, özellikle de sosyal medyanın ortaya çıkmasıyla birlikte, radyo ve TV kullanımında kullanılan cihazlardan, program tercihlerine ve alım motivasyonlarına kadar değişen bir paradigma kayması olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır.The new media has radically changed the radio and television industry and its impact is felt on the audiences globally and particularly in Africa. This research majorly examined the practices of radio and TV usage in the age of new media among the Ugandan youths. I used a triangulation technique combining both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. I used questionnaires and interviews tools for data collection. In this study 58.2% were male participants whereas 41.8% were female respondents. Both qualitative and quantitative results confirmed mobile phones as the most used device for accessing radio programs. Alike, 52.7% of the participants spent more than 7 hours daily while using mobile phones. The research results confirmed that 92.8% of the study participants owned at least one mobile phone set and listened to radio through it. Whereas respondents preferred watching TV via television set and the majority spent 1 to 3 hours watching daily. Equally, majority of the respondents used smartphones for the reception of radio and TV programs. Few respondents used laptops and desktop to access radio and TV programs. Possession of media devices was strongly correlated with the monthly income of the respondents, both at value r = .004 and P= .000 respectively. Both quantitative and qualitative findings were similar on their motivations for using traditional radio and TV, these were, information, education, entertainment and for leisure. Whereas the majority used social TV, for social interaction, entertainment, companionship and information purposes. The study concluded that with the emergence of new media technologies, especially social media, has caused a paradigm shift in the usage of radio and TV ranging from devices used, program preferences and motivations for reception
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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