The Effectiveness of Social Media on Engineers Related Tasks

Hawkar A Haji,Kaywan O Ahmed,Araz A Hamza

doi:10.53898/josse2021124

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https://doi.org/10.53898/josse2021124

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Abstract

In the beginning of 21st Century, Social Media developed and influenced on all aspects of modern lifestyle. Nowadays, Social Media is not only an entertainment and social networking tool, but also can be supposed as a way of linking different businesses, marketing, management, construction industry. Furthermore, it provides a framework for people around the world to interconnect, share information, and interrelate with each other. This study includes an investigation about the effects of Social Media on engineering related tasks, for this purpose, a questionnaire survey was performed for engineers with different gender, ages, and engineering status. Kurdistan Region-Iraq is the case study of this survey, the results of this study reveal that Social Media is one of the mostly used by engineers. It is also illustrated that Google, YouTube and Facebook are the mostly used platforms.

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Social Media (SM) can be defined as an online platform where people use to make conversations with others who have similar personality or occupation interests, professional activities, academic background, or real-life relations for multiple purposes [1]
Kurdistan Region-Iraq is the case study of this survey, the results of this study reveal that Social Media is one of the mostly used by engineers
The first question group was about demographic information, which consists of three main questions regarding their Gender, Age, and Engineering status

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Social Media (SM) can be defined as an online platform where people use to make conversations with others who have similar personality or occupation interests, professional activities, academic background, or real-life relations for multiple purposes [1]. SM covers are a term for these online tools and platforms which people use to share, converse, download, upload and publish their online contents. The outcome of the application and utilization of SM is a social network. It is a social structure made of a group of people or organizations to represent the associations between them [2]. The internet has become a great source for community conventions around the world. Everyone can obtain all information and important data without any restrictions on time and place [3]

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