Analysis of the Impact of Social Network on College Students -- An Empirical Study of renren.com

Author

Liu, Jia

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf., Central Univ. of Finance & Econ., Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

20-21 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

37

Abstract

In order to research the impact on college students, a research value and application analysis of renren.com has been done first. Second, the author designed a questionnaire about the usage of ´renren.com´ and tested the reliability and validity of the questionnaire. A series of important conclusions and findings are achieved through the analysis of survey. Then, the evolution of impact is established that ´Available Resources - Public Opinion - Behavior Change´, the level of impact is measured of three levels using data from previous survey. In the empirical research, some political suggestions are put up considering the development status and trend of SNS, which has a strong practical value.

Keywords

social aspects of automation; social networking (online); SNS; available resources; behavior change; college students; public opinion; renren.com; social network; Educational institutions; Games; Internet; Reliability; Social network services; college students; empirical research; level of impact; social networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of e-Commerce and e-Government (ICMeCG), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2943-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMeCG.2012.32

Filename

6374877