Browsing by Author "Pooja Buragohain"

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    Use And Impact Of Social Networking Sites (Sns) Among The Student Community Of Assam Agricultural University (A.A.U), Jorhat, Assam: A Survey
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2018-11) Pooja Buragohain; Ksh. Krishna Devi
    Social Networking Sites (SNS) gives us enormous capability to provide services in real time. The paper focused on finding out the opportunities provided by the SNSs to the student as well as the benefits and the challenges faced by the student community while retrieving information and for the purpose of knowing the awareness and usage pattern of SNS by the student community of A.A.U, Jorhat. The paper highlights the important findings in respect to the use and impact of SNS. A self-made questionnaire was constructed and administered on a sample of 150 student community pursuing their degree in A.A.U, Jorhat. Random sampling technique was used. The result of the study showed that all of the students used WhatsApp and they used SNS through their smart phone for both academic as well as for entertainment purposes. Social Networking Sites had both positive and negative impacts on student community.