Social Network Sites (SNS) Issues in Learning Landscape – Systematic Literature Review

• Published in: Advances in Visual Informatics Vol. 11870; pp. 592 - 600
• Main Authors: Zulkanain, Nani Amalina, Miskon, Suraya, Abdullah, Norris Syed, Ali, Nazmona Mat, Bahari, Mahadi, Ahmad, Norasnita
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2019; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Education; Social Network Sites; Systematic Literature Review
• ISBN: 9783030340315; 3030340317
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34032-2_52

The education platform today has evolved in align with the development of information technology. Social Network Sites (SNS) appears to be one of the many famous platforms applied in numerous fields, such as business and education. With that, this paper lists the present types of SNS employed for the education arena and the issues involved. Hence, the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) methods was performed to comb through publications that contained studies pertaining the types of SNS and their relevant issues. Based on qualitative analysis, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp emerged as the present trends of SNS applied by students and instructors for their learning session. The related issues are distraction, lack of guidelines, low internet connectivity, professional boundaries, unnecessary statements and low response.