Document Type : Original Article
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Minia University Faculty of Specific Education Department of Educational Media
Abstract
Through this research, we seek to describe and discover the degree, importance, and objectives of universities staff’ use of academic social networks, the most frequently used networks, and the effect of the gender variable (male/female) on this use, and to identify the difficulties and obstacles to using, the research was applied through an electronic questionnaire on A sample of (100) universities staff in the media faculties and departments of the Egyptian universities were chosen intentionally (55)males, (45)females, (16 professors), (21assistant professors), (28 teachers), (35 assistant teachers and teaching assistants), in the period from (23) June to (22) July 2022.
The research found that the use of academic networks is always at (42.00%), sometimes at (43.00%), and rarely at (15.00%), while non-use has not reached any percentage, and academic networks are very important at (53%), and weakly significant (4%), and the most important academic networks preferred to visit first came to Researchgate, then Academy.edu, then Mendelely, finally Linked In, and it was clear from the results of the study that there were no differences between males and females in the degrees of using academic networks, and in terms of goals, the majority agreed. The study sample states that downloading PDF files is the most important purpose of use.
Study proved that the most difficulty in using academic networks is (the fear that free services will turn into profitable services in the future) (80.60%), followed by the lack of the full text) by (75.80%).
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