Social Media Abstracts

Social Media Abstracts

The Use of Social Media and its Impact on the Texas Tech Community

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This paper discusses the use of social media and its effects. The class of ESL 5315 Academic Writing (Fall 2016) conducted a survey across the Texas Tech University campus by asking random people to fill out a questionnaire. The informants included undergraduates, graduates, faculty and staff members from Tech. This survey helped us to validate our five hypotheses made previously. The results of our survey give some interesting findings of the role of social media in the lives of people, privacy concerns and its use in studies. We found that undergraduates are more into social media than graduates and faculty. Texans have a mixed opinion of personal privacy on social media being controlled by the government. (Abhishek Kumar)

Keywords: government intervention, privacy, social media, Texas Tech University, undergraduate


Issues posed on Social Media & their effects

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Social Media have been incorporated in our daily life, which engenders multiple positive and negative impacts in our daily social, economic, psychological, and personal lives. Thus, it is very much important to assess their roles in our regular life. For the scrutiny of the function of social media, some important hypotheses were developed on the basis of the opinions from few experts and personal experience. Then, a brief but rigorous survey upon mutual agreement had been conducted on TTU students to obtain the insights of future potentials. Thenceforth, critical analysis was performed on the hypotheses, with the valuable suggestions and advice from every participant of the ESL class of TTU, based on the students’ opinion. This important analysis would help us to understand the multiple positive and negative effects of social media in our regular life. Furthermore, it was assist us to optimize the usage of social media in our daily life. (Minhaz)

Keywords: Social media, social change, survey.


Study of the perceptions of Texas Tech University’s Community on Social Media

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This paper explores the perceptions of people from Texas Tech University (TTU)’s community about social media. A survey research consisting of Social Media, Parental Leave and the Black Lives Matter Movement was conducted, among which we analyzed 18 questions related to social media. We collected a total of 294 surveys. Some hypotheses were confirmed by survey results while some were not. Our project could be beneficial for people to understand what the Texas Tech community thought on social media. We found out the major purpose of TTU people using social media was news review. We noticed that functions from social media, such as re-posting and ‘likes’, would have an impact on TTU people’s minds. Meanwhile, the TTU community cared about online privacy issue and expected control from government. It is interesting that TTU people showed morality when involved in online conflicts. Although we completed the project, we believed that it still had a lot of places to improve. (Tianyu Chen)


TTU Students’ Perception of Social Media

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In this paper, TTU students’ perception of different issues of social media is studied. A survey about social media is made for TTU students in order to find out TTU students’ views on social media. We want to know which kind of social media sites is the most popular for TTU students; how the social media influences TTU students’ lives; what the effect of social media is on TTU students; whether or not social media benefits TTU students’ study or work; whether TTU students are worried about personal privacy being compromised in social media; whether most TTU students think their mood would be altered by some words; how TTU students respond to conflicts in social media; and so on. Based on the results of survey, various reasons TTU students answer the way they do are analytically detailed. TTU students have various ideas for different issues of social media. (Yiting Dong)

Keywords: social media, students, Texas Tech University


Analysis of social media issues in the Texas Tech Community

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Social media plays an important role in our young generation lives; thus, we are interested in understanding their conceptions about this issue. To get the information, we, academic writing course 5315, designed a survey to understand their opinions about social media. This article is talking about the results of the survey and its analysis. Basically, we want to see the difference between different groups including male and female, undergraduate and graduate students, and also find a little fact about Texans and non-Texans by analyzing the results of the survey. This article also provides some previous literature for the information related to this research. In conclusion, we got desired information and make a solid analysis. (Cheng-Ta Cho)

Keywords: social media, Tech community, survey, American students