A study on the impact of facebook usage on student's social capital and academic performance

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2012, AMCIS 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 781-793

  Shah, Vishal ^a   Subramanian, Sankara ^a   Rouis, Sana ^b   Limayem, Moez ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Facebook usage; Social capital; Social media

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; DUAL EFFECT; FACEBOOK; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SYSTEM USAGES; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

STUDENTS;

EID: 84877906449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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