Patterns of utilization of social and professional networks among a sample of faculty members in Egyptian universities

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Faculty of Arts - Cairo University

Abstract

The present study aims to study patterns of utilization of social and
professional networks in a sample of (200) members of faculty from various
scientific and functional categories. They were selected in a deliberate manner
from a number of Egyptian universities, including Cairo, Ain Shams, Helwan,
Menoufia and Beni Suef.
The study focuses on their motivation, their needs from the social and
professional networks, and the extent of their use in their specialties according to
years of experience and degree. The study is based on the analytical descriptive
approach. This study is part of the descriptive studies to examine the reality of
the modes of benefit of the faculty members from these social and professional
networks. The study relies on collecting the data on a questionnaire prepared by
the researcher consisting of 50 items.
The study came out with the following results:
1. The most commonly used age groups for social and professional networks
are the youth group, a group of less than 30 years old.
2. The most positive forms of participation in the study community for the use of
social and professional networks varied between the access to news and
information, learning new things through social networks, free expression of
opinion, enable overcoming the barrier of shyness between students and
faculty, and holding fruitful meetings and meetings With colleagues remotely,
in addition to social networks as a means of communication and information
exchange, it is one of the most important educational tools to improve the
educational process.
3. The nature of the materials used by the community of beneficiaries of social
and professional networks varied between the form of text and visual and
audio.
4. There is a phenomenon of Iqbal to use mobile phone as a means to enter the
social and professional networks.
5. high frequency on social and vocational networks with increasing time spent
on each visit.


There are a number of negative consequences of the use of social and
professional networks, and varied between psychological and neurological
consequences, as it was one of the negative implications for the use of
faculty members of the social networks and professional belief that they steal
time, and lead to the loss of high value, Negatives some of the physical
implications of what we call the psychological stress, nervous and visual.
7. The Facebook and Twitter network ranked first in the ranking of social
networks, while Linked Network ranked first in professional networking.

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