Effectiveness of Social Media as a tool of communication and its potential for technology enabled connections: A micro-level study
Published 1 January 2012
Trisha Dowerah Baruah, Krishna Kanta, Handiqui State
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Online tools and technology has not only mediated communication in countless ways, but that the very ways the authors communicate and even the ways they talk and think about communication are changing as a result.
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With the world in the midst of a social media revolution, it is more than obvious that social media like Facebook, twitter, orkut, MySpace, Skype etc., are used extensively for the purpose of communication. One of the most important advantages of the use of social media is the online sharing of knowledge and information among the different groups of people. This online sharing of information also promotes the increase in the communication skills among the people especially among the learners/students of educational institutions. Online tools and technology has not only mediated communication in countless ways, but that the very ways we communicate and even the ways we talk and think about communication are changing as a result. Social media have the potential to fundamentally change the character of our social lives, both on an interpersonal and a community level.
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