Social media has impacted several areas of life and among them is communication and education. Through social media, people reach out to loved ones in nearby and faraway places. As a communication tool, students and lecturers could...
moreSocial media has impacted several areas of life and among them is communication and education. Through social media, people reach out to loved ones in nearby and faraway places. As a communication tool, students and lecturers could leverage on it to interact among themselves. Such communications could affect student academic life and performance effect, hence, social media having an effect on student academic life. To investigate the perceived effect of social media on student academic life, this study applied the quantitative research design approach to collect data from 96 students in three universities in Namibia. The study found that social media can be used for academic purposes and thus far used to support student academic life to a very high extent. As a resu lt of this, students rated social media as a good platform. This is a wakeup call to stakeholders of education to understand that mobile devices and social media have come to stay and are widely used by students even for academic purposes.
