International Journal of Applied Information Systems |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 12 - Number 6 |
Year of Publication: 2017 |
Authors: Riktesh Srivastava, Firoj Rauta |
10.5120/ijais2017451708 |
Riktesh Srivastava, Firoj Rauta . Social Media Analysis of Higher Education Institutions in UAE. International Journal of Applied Information Systems. 12, 6 ( September 2017), 16-20. DOI=10.5120/ijais2017451708
This paper presents social media analysis of data obtained from twitter handle of three types of higher education institutions and evaluate students’ involvement of higher education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The higher education institutions are divided into three sections: Federal Institutions (3 in number) Local institutions (7 in number) Foreign University campus (8 in number) It was observed that students were inclined to University twitter handle for both educational and non-education aspects. Many of the tweets were focused on students discussing about their experiences and academic motivations. The study was divided into two parts, wherein, at first tweets related to above mentioned three types of higher education are collected. Secondly, the collected tweets are classified into sentiments. The paper also does a comparative study of the sentiments between higher education’s paving way for future explorations.