CHECK THESE ARTICLE

1. Growing Use of Social Media in Education

http://www.learndash.com/growing-use-of-social-media-in-education/

2. How students are using social media in education

http://dailygenius.com/how-students-are-using-social-media-in-education/

3. Social Media in Education: Resource Toolkit

http://www.edutopia.org/social-media-education-resources

4. 7 Ways Social Media Has a Role in Education

http://www.techlearning.com/blogentry/9084

This is a fairly well researched topic so if you search in any database for "Social Media" AND  Education you should find a ton of information.  If you don't have access to paid databases there are a number of free reputable databases that can help you. I compiled a list of such resources on my blog and you can find this at http://conciergelibrarian.com/open-resources-information/

http://conciergelibrarian.com/open-resources-information/

Nisha:

I am attaching my conference paper on using Social Media to help students, who prefer their Creole, to improve on their English for writing their exams that are done in English. I hope you find it useful.

Conference Paper Social Media in Education: Bringing Your Classroom to Life -...

I suggest you look for the works of two researchers:

1. Adilson Citelli, who have several studies on Educommunication (Escola de Comunicação e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil)

and

2. Roxane Rojo, who writes about multi-literacies at school (Departamento de Linguística Aplicada, Universidade de Campinas, Campinas, Brasil) 

Hope you find their work useful. They are top researchers here in Brasil.

 Oh, I forgot! There is another researcher whose works might interest you:

- Carlos Alberto de Oliveira, who has papers on the use of the computer in the classroom (Mestrado em Linguística Aplicada, Universidade de Taubaté, Taubaté, Brasil), who has an advanced course for post graduate students who interact with him through the computer interface he developped.

Thank you very much for bothering to spend your valuable time to answer my problem. Your replies are highly valuable for my study. I'm planning to do social media in education industry for my Phd thesis. So these articles will help me to find a research gap.

Thank you again 

Nisha how are you defining education industry? It is very broad. Her in the US we have early childhood 2/3 -4. K-12 elementary-secondary and college/grad school professional training. It's a huge span with very different educational nee.

I have recently used these papers, hope you'll find them useful too:

Al-Khateeb, A. A., Abdurabu, H. Y. (2014), Using social media to facilitate medical students’ interest in research, Medical Education Online, October 2014

Andrei, A. G., Iacob D., Iacob, A. (2010), Motivations for Using Social Networking Sites: The Case of Romania, in “Revista economică”, Nr. 5 (52) vol.1/2010, available at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61150/1/MPRA_paper_61150.pdf

Bolton, R., Parasuraman, A., Hoefnagels, A., Migchels, A., Kabadayi, S., Gruber, T., Loureiro, Y. K., Solnet, D., 2013, Understanding Generation Y and Their Use of Social Media: A Review and Research Agenda, Journal of Service Management, Vol. 24 Issue 3 pp. 245 – 267

Booth, C. (2009), Informing innovation: tracking student interest in emerging library technologies at Ohio University, Association of College and Research Libraries, available at: www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/booksanddigitalresources/digital/ii-booth.pdf  

Dahlstrom, E., de Boor, T., Grunwald, P. and Vockley, M. (2011), The ECAR National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology (Research Report), EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, available at: http://net.EDUCAUSE.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERS1103/ERS1103W.pdf

Horváth, G., Bakó, R. K., Biró-Kaszás, E., Ten Years of Facebook. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Argumentation and Rhetoric, held in Oradea/Nagyvárad, Romania, 4-6 September 2014, Partium Press – Oradea (Nagyvárad), Romania, Debrecen University Press – Debrecen, Hungary

Friedl, J., Tkalac Verĉiĉ, ˇ A. (2011), Media preferences of digital natives’ internal communication: A pilot study, Public Relations Review, 37(1), 84–86

Grosseck, G., Holotescu, C. (2013), An Empirical Analysis Of The Educational Effects Of Social Media In Universities And Colleges, Internet Learning, Volume 2, Number 1, pp. 21-32, available at http://www.ipsonet.org/publications/open-access/internet-learning/volume-2-number-1-spring-2013

Iordache, D. D., Pribeanu, C., Lamanauskas, V., Raguliene, L. (2015), Usage of Facebook by University Students in Romania and Lithuania: A Comparative Study, Informatica Economică vol. 19, no. 1/2015, at http://revistaie.ase.ro/content/73/04%20-%20Iordache,%20Pribeanu.pdf

Kietzmann, J. H., Hermkens, K., McCarthy, I. P., & Silvestre, B. S. (2011), Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media. Business Horizons, 54(3), pp. 241–251

Kittinger, R., Correia, C. J., & Irons, J. G. (2012), Relationship between Facebook use and problematic internet use among college students, Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, Vol. 15 No. 6, pp. 324-327

Lippincott, J.K. (2008), Mobile technologies, mobile users: implications for academic libraries, ARL, Vol. 261, pp. 1-4

Marinescu, V., Velicu, A. (2010), Uses of the Internet by children and youth. Results of the EU Kids Online II, available at https://www.academia.edu/1454214/Uses_of_the_Internet_by_children_and_youth_Results_of_the_EU_Kids_Online_II

Pînzaru, F., Mitan, A. (2013), Generation Y Students: Using Facebook for Communicating with University Staff and Professors, Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy, Volume 1 (2013) no. 2, pp. 221-239, at www.managementdynamics.ro

Ruleman, A. B. (2012), Social media at the university: a demographic comparison, New Library World, Vol. 113, Issue 7/8, pp. 316 – 332

Santos, D., Čuta, M. (2015), The usage of social networks by university students (A survey of Facebook use patterns among young people), Journal for General Anthropology and Related Disciplines, 6/2015/1

Tkalac Verĉiĉ, A. T., Verĉiĉ, D. (2013), Digital natives and social media, Public Relations Review 39, pp. 600–602

Hi.

My research line is MOOCs (massive open online courses). Here a couple of articles on MOOCs and Social Media. Hope they are useful to you as they were for me:

Carlos Alario-Hoyos, Mar Perez-Sanagustin, Carlos Delgado-Kloos, Hugo A. Parada G., Mario Munoz-Organero, "Delving into Participants’ Profiles and Use of Social Tools in MOOCs," IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 260-266, July-Sept., 2014

http://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/lt/2014/03/06766737-abs.html

Srećko Joksimović, Vitomir Kovanović, Jelena Jovanović, Amal Zouaq, Dragan Gašević, and Marek Hatala. 2015. What do cMOOC participants talk about in social media?: a topic analysis of discourse in a cMOOC. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Learning Analytics And Knowledge (LAK '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 156-165. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2723576.2723609

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2723609

Greetings from Ecuador,

Sandra Sanchez-Gordon

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2723609

http://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/lt/2014/03/06766737-abs.html

Hi!

Bryer, T., & Baiyun, C. (2012). Investigating instructional strategies for using social media in formal and informal learning. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 1 (1), pp. 87-104 :

Anderson T., Dron J. (2014). On the Design of Social Media for Learning. Social Sciences, 3(3), http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/3/3/378

El Helou, S., Gillet, D., Li, N. (2012). Using Social Media for Collaborative Learning in Higher Education: A Case Study. (Conference paper.) ACHI 2012, The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, pp. 285-290.

http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=achi_2012_11_40_20164 : 2012 :

Kamel B. M., & Wheeler Steve, N. (2007). The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 24, pp. 2-23.

And, as a bonus, if you can read Swedish ;-)

Lantz-Andersson A., & Vigmo S. (2013). Elevers gränsöverskridande framträdande på sociala nätverksplatser i ett utbildningssammanhang. Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige, 18(1-2), pp. 31-61.

All the best

Kent

Dear Nisha,

Have a look at the journal Learning. Media and Technology, especially Volume 34 Issue 2: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjem20/34/2.

1. http://www.mierjs.in/ojs/index.php/mjestp/article/view/162

2. https://web.facebook.com/Educational-Community-639955509432387

Dear Nisha,

You can focus on 2 set of resources . First resources could be academic resources that you can use for academic publication. I have attached some reference here. 

Here are some academic journal sources

1) Manca, S., & Ranieri, M. (2016). “Yes for sharing, no for teaching!”: Social Media in academic practices. The Internet and Higher Education, 29, 63-74.

2) Balakrishnan, V., & Gan, C. L. (2016). Students’ learning styles and their effects on the use of social media technology for learning. Telematics and Informatics, 33(3), 808-821.

3) Elitaş, T. (2015). Social Media Usage by Open Education Faculties: Atatürk University Case. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 176, 243-250.

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Second set of resources could be non-academic resources . My fellow researchers already suggested some good resources. 

Hope this helps. 

Regards,

Gobinda

Dear Nisha

1- Hung, H.-T., & Yuen, S. C.-Y. (2010). Educational use of social networking technology in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education, 15(August 2015), 703–714. doi:10.1080/13562517.2010.507307

2- Mondahl, M., & Razmerita, L. (n.d.). Social media, Collaboration and Social Learning – a Case-study of Foreign Language Learning.

3- Kabilan, M. K., Ahmad, N., & Abidin, M. J. Z. (2010). Facebook: An online environment for learning of English in institutions of higher education? The Internet and Higher Education, 13(4), 179–187. doi:10.1016/j.iheduc.2010.07.003

4- Milošević, I., Živković, D., Arsić, S., & Manasijević, D. (2015). Facebook as virtual classroom – Social networking in learning and teaching among Serbian students. Telematics and Informatics, 32, 576–585. doi:10.1016/j.tele.2015.02.003

Best wishes

Hibah

All of the chapters in 'An Education in Facebook' (which I contributed to) are interesting, and many libraries will have electronic copies of the book.

http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9780415713191/

Dear Nisha,

I usually prefer to search Google scholar (scholar.google.com) with specific keywords (e.g. Facebook, university students). After initial reading you will have more keywords to refine your searches. Also some of the papers you read will refer to other publications which could be also of interest.

Good luck with your PhD.

Tanya 

Llorens, F. & Capdeferro, N.(2011). Facebook’s Potential for Collaborative e-Learning. Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento (RUSC), 8(2), 197-210.

Dear Nisha,

Hope the articles that I have attached may help you in your PhD research.

Best wishes

Solomia

http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n1/a117.pdf

http://www.ijcsbi.org/index.php/ijcsbi/article/view/512/147

Hi Nisha,

My colleagues and I have just completed a research project regarding the technology use of university students - we had thought that social media use would have figured prominently and positively - but this was not always the case. I have pasted below the link to the project website. 

Regards, Kevin

http://bit.ly/TELwhatworksandwhy