International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review

Vol. 10(1), pp. 34-41, January 2022

ISSN: 2360-7866

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijarer2022020

 

Full Length Research

 

 

Social media as podia for information sharing in Selected University in Nigeria

 

1Sambo, Atanda SaliuCLN, 2Rita Eda and 3Mohammed Lawal Akanbi Ph.D.

 

1Head of Reader Services Division, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Library, P.M.B. 1221, Delta State, NIGERIA. TEL: 0803856 0334. *Corresponding author’s E-mail: sambo.atanda@fupre.edu.ng  

2College of Education Warri, Delta State. E-mail:Ritaeda07@yahoo.com  

3Senior Lecturer, Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Communication and Information Science, University of Ilorin, Kwara State. E-mail:mohammedlawal@gmail.com

 

Accepted 28 January 2022

Abstract

Abstract: The world-wide development on the use of social media has boosted expert information sharing and interaction. This expansion has fashioned spaces for groups that regulate who acquires informed, efficient, encouraged and linked as members. The population for the study comprised 90 library staff in three Federal universities in the South-West geo-political zone of Nigeria. A stratified random sampling technique was adopted to subdivide the universities into samples. The instrument for the study is an Online Structured Questionnaire (OSQ) based on four (4) point scale rating, a midpoint mean of 2.5 was used as positive response criterion mean and accepted as a positive response. The result showed that WhatsApp was universally accepted as social medial podium used by the library staff, followed by Facebook and twitter. The findings discovered some benefits of using social medial, such as minimized travelling for meeting/share image/audios/text/animation, ideas/ knowledge/sharing/maintains chat history and scholarship among others. Findings further showed higher cost of data subscription, disregard to rules and regulation of the group, privacy and security, verbal attacks/open quarrel, unwanted copy/paste, delay/dragging of crucial matters in the podium, and information explosion /hacking into the podium were challenges encountered while using social media platforms. It was therefore, recommended that group must not be permitted to disintegrate due to the attitudes of a few members and violators of a group's rules should be warned, and strict measures can be taken to maintain the group's media's dignity among others.

 

Keywords: Group media podiums, Information sharing, Library staff, Nigeria

Paper type: research