THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN CREATING STUDENT INTEREST IN WRITING PAPERS AT WIDYATAMA UNIVERSITY
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2012-12-12
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Nowadays the spread of information and telecommunications access the faster and easier,
especially with social media. Social Media gives all the information we need, where the
social media including web based and mobile technologies are used to enable
communication into an interactive dialogue between organizations, communities, and
individuals. The purpose of this research is to determine the role of social media in
creating student interest in writing papers and viewed in term of social media types are
often used are: collaborative project, blogs and micro blogs, community content, and
social networking sites.
The method used in this research is survey with type of descriptive research through a
questionnaire as a data collection tool. Sample used is a random probability sampling of
student in the Faculty of Business and Management at Widyatama University. The results
of this research indicate that the role of social media affects the interest of students
writing papers and the social media types are often used is the social networking sites.
Keywords: Information, Social media, Interest in writing
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Information, Social media, Interest in writing