Year :
2019
| Month :
December
| Volume :
13
| Issue :
12
| Page :
JM01 - JM02
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WhatsApp in University: Friend or Foe
Published: December 1, 2019 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2019/41276.13336
Aksh Chahal, Rashid Ali Beg, Amr S Shalaby, Abdulraouf Ayoub, Abu Shaphe
1. Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, MMIPR, Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Mullana, Ambala, Haryana, India.
2. Lecturer, Department of Physical Therapy, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
3. Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
4. Lecturer, Department of Physical Therapy, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
5. Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
Correspondence Address :
Dr. Abu Shaphe,
S-40, College of Applied Medical Science, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
E-mail: mshaphe@jazanu.edu.sa
Abstract
Amid technological advancement, the global internet market has gone beyond 3G. Recent transformation of internet speed to 5G has driven the youth fanatical towards applications available on internet for mainly two purposes, entertainment and education. Winning the race of popularity among the commonly used communication applications, WhatsApp has been fulfilling the needs of many people in the community, including both social and educational purposes. It is utilised to send or share text messages, Portable Document Format (PDF), contacts, slideshows, picture images, status, video and voice calls, documents and user location. Being so much resourceful, youngsters have started using WhatsApp popularly for both entertainment as well as education. School, college and university students started making use of WhatsApp for communications between them and their instructors by forming WhatsApp group, with their focus on transferring and mediating data among the group members and to help explain things to those in need.
Keywords
Demerits, Educator, Merits, Students
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2019/41276.13336
Date of Submission: Feb 14, 2019
Date of Peer Review: Apr 08, 2019
Date of Acceptance: Jun 14, 2019
Date of Publishing: Dec 01, 2019
AUTHOR DECLARATION:
• Financial or Other Competing Interests: No
• Was Ethics Committee Approval obtained for this study? NA
• Was informed consent obtained from the subjects involved in the study? Yes
• For any images presented appropriate consent has been obtained from the subjects. NA
PLAGIARISM CHECKING METHODS: [Jain H et al.]
• Plagiarism X-checker: Feb 20, 2019
• Manual Googling: May 27, 2019
• iThenticate Software: Nov 14, 2019 (12%)
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