Social Media and Research
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2017
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First Festschrift Publications, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria
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Soclal media are the various online technological tools that enable users to communicate easily via the internet to share information and resources. They are emerging digital communication channels which create a user-oriented in formation sharing ground where anybody can generate or subscribe to information content as both information provider and consumers (Kim, Kim, & Kim, 2010). Social Media became popular after the advent of Web 2.0; a web technology that enhances and promotes great interaction among user and since then, it has continued to evolve. There have been changes and expansion in its uses as well as its applications. These include text, audio, video, images, podcast and other multimedia communications.
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Ibrahim, R.T., Dang, T.L. & Dayan F. (2017). Social Media and Research. In Egunjobi, R. A. (et.al.) (Eds). Integration of Social Media into Library Services in Nigeria in the 21st Century, pp225-232, Ondo: First Festschrift Publications, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria