Students Perception about the Use of Media Platforms

Abstract

With the emergence of technology, there is a remarkable growth in media platforms for accessing information. With the increase of information exchange, information about the usage of different media platforms may play a significant role in making strategies for providing information to different sections of society. Students are the major part of the population who access information through different media platforms for various purposes and make their decision accordingly. The objective of the present work is to investigate highly popular and reliable media platforms among students. For the purpose, an online survey was conducted to get information about the usage and reliability of various media platforms among students. We use analysis of variance approach to check whether all media platforms are equally popular among students and apply t-test to find highly popular and reliable media platforms. We found that different media platforms are not equally popular among students and we further observed that YouTube is a highly accessible and reliable media platform among students.

Platform as Theoretical Framework Rather Than Just Empirical Context: How Information Science Scholars Examine Digital Platforms

“…Scholars in IS have also been examining various platforms, along with their colleagues from economic, marketing, political science, management, and other disciplines. A major theme appears in the IS literature is empirical studies of a specific social media platform with research questions informed by attention to user behaviors and user experiences (Aduba & Mayowa‐Adebara, 2022; Chessa & Solari, 2021; Datt, Bisht, Tewari & Joshi, 2021; Slot & Opree, 2021; Wang, Chen & Xie, 2021; Wan, Peng, Wang, Zhang, Gao & Ma, 2021), information policy (Tay, 2015; Zhou, Dai, Zhang & Wen, 2021), and data management and governance (Banshal, Singh & Muhuri, 2021; Glasser, Otrando, Zhu & Harrington, 2020; Mao, Wu, Qiao & Yao, 2022). These studies often treat the platform as an empirical context or a research object to examine questions from the IS perspective, and given this focus, may not draw from or connect to the concepts or theories developed by scholars focused on platform concepts found in other literatures.…”