Mobile social media usage and academic performance
| Autor: | Enrico Bignotti, Ivano Bison, Elisa Gobbi, Fausto Giunchiglia, Mattia Zeni |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
Social media Academic performance Smartphone Time diaries Control (management) Internet privacy Population 050801 communication & media studies Time diaries Bridge (interpersonal) Social media Computer Science - Computers and Society 0508 media and communications Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Academic performance Smartphone Computers and Society (cs.CY) Time management education General Psychology education.field_of_study business.industry 05 social sciences 050301 education Human-Computer Interaction Negative correlation business Psychology 0503 education |
| Popis: | Among the general population, students are especially sensitive to social media and smartphones because of their pervasiveness. Several studies have shown that there is a negative correlation between social media and academic performance since they can lead to behaviors that hurt students' careers, e.g., addictedness. However, these studies either focus on smartphones and social media addictedness or rely on surveys, which only provide approximate estimates. We propose to bridge this gap by i) parametrizing social media usage and academic performance, and ii) combining smartphones and time diaries to keep track of users' activities and their smartphone interaction. We apply our solution on the 72 students participating in the SmartUnitn project, which investigates students' time management and their academic performance. By analyzing the logs of social media apps on students' smartphones and by comparing them to students’ credits and grades, we can provide a quantitative and qualitative estimate of negative and positive correlations. Our results show the negative impact of social media usage, distinguishing different influence patterns of social media on academic activities and also underline the need to control the smartphone usage in academic settings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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