Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2018

THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN HONG KONG

Dr. Margaret S. M. Chui

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 With the increasing number of internet users, it generates great impact to the University student‘s daily life in terms of learning and interpersonal communication.  Social Media has become an integral part of everyday communication.  Indeed, the online communities carry a strong and influential impact to engage people directly to share with information; to network with people and to facilitate of learning.  In addition, Social Media also affects how people engage with one another and it has been shifted in the way on how people communication, rather than face-to-face interaction, but tends to prefer text communication.

 

The aim of this paper focuses on studying the impact of social media on the higher education in Hong Kong.   With the aim, it is essential to study on how Social Media shapes the University students under two folds:- a) learning with social media as supportive learning tool; b) social media as a interpersonal communication tool to facilitate learning.  The findings will indicated the impact of social media to support University student learning and communication.

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Dr. Margaret S. M. CHUI, THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN HONG KONG, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-7 | Issue-6 | June-2018


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