student and social media

[nandini arora]

Your Name: Nandini Arora

Grade Level: 10

School or Organization Name: Kamla nhru public school

Co-Presenter Name(s):N/A

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: INDIA

Language in Which You Will Present: English

Target Audience(s): Student

Short Session Description (one line): In this I m going to discuss about sudent and social media…

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The Study

This study was conducted by student-researchers at The Whittemore School of Business and

Economics at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to determine whether there is a

correlation between heavy usage of social media and grades. The study also was undertaken to

determine how much time students actively use social media and if there has been an increase

or decrease in usage over time.

 

Background

Whittemore School of Business and Economics student researchers recently completed a study

to determine if there was a relationship between online social media usage and grades of

college students. The survey was administered by members of a market research class led by

Adjunct Professor Chuck Martin. A total of 1,127students from all colleges at the university

(College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, College of Life Sciences

and Agriculture, College of Health and Human Services, Thompson School of Applied Sciences,

and the Whittemore School of Business and Economics) were surveyed.

 

Executive Summary

The research shows that there is no correlation between the amount of time students spend

using social media and their grades. Grades followed similar distributions for all colleges, with

the majority of students earning A's and B's. The study showed that more students use

Facebook and YouTube than any other social media platform. Blogs, Twitter, MySpace, and

LinkedIn had significantly lower amounts of student users. Students from the business school

had the highest percentage of users of blogs, Twitter, and LinkedIn while liberal arts students

were the highest percentage of MySpace users.