Role of Social Media in Scholarly Communication: A Study of Faculty Members of School of Social Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl

The present paper is an endeavour to find out the role and effectiveness of Social Media in scholarly communication among the faculty members of school of Social Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India. The study conducted through a structured questionnaire administrated among the faculty members of the entire department (06) of the school of Social science. It indicates that most of the respondents were found to be aware and making affective use of such sites in their communication, teaching and research. The majority of the faculty members (57.69%), who accesses social media for various purposes are in the age group of 31–40 years. It was revealed from the study that facebook is the most popular SNS followed by LinkedIn in all categories of the faculty members.