Effects of Social Media on Students in Tribal Areas with reference to South India-A Study

Psychology

The present paper focuses on impact of social media on tribal students through digital India programme and impact on tribal culture and education with special reference to south India. India has grown in its size of population, diversity and also positively in the field of information and communication technology. This is significant because information and social awareness have emerged as important factors of human empowerment. Social media has generated new dimension for tribal students to learn and access to knowledge, skill and empower development is completely new, and in some way tribal students benefit more than adults because of their familiarity with new media and their openness to applying it as a learning reservoir. Since social media offers lot of interesting ways of learning anything, anywhere, anytime, the tribal students’ learners are quite comfortable with the options available to them for learning as compared to the traditional educational transaction. But surprisingly, the reach of telecommunication and level of connectivity across the south region is limited, especially in comparison to the rest of India. Thus the tribal clusters need dedicated focus on digital skill and literacy. Social media provides open line of communication builds new understandings and collaborations for tribal students of south India from very different cultures. Social media has become a huge platform for the tribal students of south India to present their talents to the rest of the world.

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