SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ACADEMICS: A DIGITAL REVOLUTION IN EDUCATION

Over the past few years, social media platforms have transformed the way research is disseminated, taught, networked and constructed identity as a scholar. Scholarship is collated in this paper on how students use social media and how it affects their engagement attitudinally, digitally, and in terms of ethics. The paper also looks into the advancement with regard to application of new reliance on social media by students and scholars and its inclusion in the universities’ syllabus (academic surroundings). This article presents real cases where social media has facilitated the circulation of ideas and alimentary principles of academic collaboration. The research results deal with a growing concern: the use of social networks in professional life, more specifically the specific attributes that open new opportunities for the mobilization of knowledge within disciplines and professional groups.