The Situation of Student's Information Access Via Social Network Services

Abstract

As internet-based media, the social network service functions as a virtual community that is made up of two main components: a set of social actors and sets of dyadic ties among them. It allows users to communicate with each other through various services such as friend adding, chatting, emailing, picture and movie sharing on demand, regardless of space and time. Despite its late emergence, such service has shown a great impact on a wide range of diff erent fi elds and the communication among users, particularly the young whose engagement has proved more crucial than any others. Based on fi eldwork results, this paper provides a brief description of the situation of students’ information access via social network service.