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IMPACT OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES IN EVOLVING SPECIFIC RESEARCH BASED COMMUNITY TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO UNIVERSITIES OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR.

    1 Author(s):  HILAL AHMAD BHAT

Vol -  7, Issue- 4 ,         Page(s) : 195 - 202  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMST

Abstract

The study aims to identify the impact, benefits, problems and risks associated with social networking sites on research socholars with special emphasis on universities of Jammu and Kashmir . To fulfill the objectives, a structured questionnaire was prepared and circulated among sample of randomly selected 150 respondents to evaluate their experiences about the use of SNS.The findings of the study reveal that facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, orkut and you tube are the mostly used social networking sites by the research scholars and the purpose of using SNS being to keep themselves aware and up-dated about the latest trends and developments regarding different day to day aspects in general and in their concerned fields of research in particular,

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