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- Title
Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing via Facebook Groups: Analysis of Postings of Library and Information Science Community.
- Authors
Das, Kshirod; Mahapatra, R. K.
- Abstract
Social networking sites are visibly the latest trend and have changed the way the 21st century communicates each other. Its usage becomes more and more in the world of information, its presence in the library and information science becomes challenging and exciting. The aim of this study was to know the trend of posting, sharing, commenting and like a Facebook post, to understand the participation level and response against Facebook group post, and also to explore the type of content generated by library and information science community through Facebook Group. Group postings/contents of four different Facebook group pages (LIS Group, LIS-XPRESS, S.M.I.T. library students, students of LIS), operating and use by LIS community during February 2012 - February 2015 are collected, read and analysed. The analysis of those contents found that sharing photos, links and statuses are major types of group posts in every group and members hardly posting videos and create events for the community.
- Subjects
INFORMATION sharing; KNOWLEDGE transfer; FACEBOOK (Web resource); LIBRARY science; INFORMATION science
- Publication
DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 2018, Vol 38, Issue 2, p95
- ISSN
0974-0643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14429/djlit.38.2.10949