The study analyses the academic and research information share through social medias and networks among autonomous arts and science colleges in Chennai, India. The study portrays out of 302 respondents, 149 (49.3%) from female respondents, and 153 (50.7%) responses from male respondents. The p value of the variables Google scholar and Onsite.com, Prospect.com are less than 0.05, at the 5% level of significance. Hence null hypotheses for these variables are accepted. There is a no significant association between the age group of the respondents and their use of Research Gate, Google Scholar, and Prospect.com, as the p value is more than the significant level of 0.05.
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Lin(2022) discusses the exploration report aims to pierce cooperative planning and implicit challenges of social media functions and challenges of civic planning, including population bias, sequestration enterprises, information credibility, suppression, and opinion polarization. Social media and mobile base allow the researchers and to produce, edit and partake the course contents in textual, videotape or audio forms. Selwyn (2012) analyses the technological inventions give birth to a new kind of literacy societies, learning grounded on the principles of collaborative disquisition and commerce Social media the marvels began in 2005 after the Web2.0 actuality into the reality, defined more easily as “ a group of Internet- grounded operations that make on the ideological and technological foundation of web2.0 and allow creation and exchange of stoner- generated contents(Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010). Mobile bias and social media give openings to the scholars for penetrating coffers, accoutrements, course contents, commerce with tutor and associates(Cavus & Ibrahim,(2008, 2009),(Richardson & Lenarcic, 2008). The Social media platform in academic institutions allows scholars to interact with their instructors, pierce their course contents, customisation and to make them scholars communities (Greenhow, 2011a, 2011b). 90 academy going scholars presently use the internet constantly, with further than 75 teenagers using online networking spots fore-learning(DeBell & Chapman, 2006), (Lenhart, Arafeh, & Smith, 2008),(Lenhar etal., 2005). The result of the focus group interview of the scholars in 3 different Autonomous Institutions in the United States verified that use of social media created openings to the learners for cooperative literacy, creating and engaging the scholars in colorful redundant class conditioning(Gikas & Grant, 2013). The Technological invention and increased use of the internet fore-learning by the scholars in advanced education institutions has brought revolutionary changes in communication pattern. A report on 3000 Research scholars in the United States revealed that 90 using Facebook while 37 using Twitter to partake the resource accoutrements as cited in (Elkaseh etal., 2016). A study stressed that the operation of social networking spots in educational institutions has a practical outgrowth on scholars’ learning issues (Jackson, 2011).