A survey of information literacy, social media use and knowledge sharing practices among undergraduates at The Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated information literacy, social media use, and knowledge sharing practices among Undergraduates at the Federal  University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria. The study employed the descriptive survey design to collect primary data from the respondents. A sample  size of 396 out of 40,000 undergraduates was selected using Taro Yamene’s formula. A multistage sampling technique was employed to  select respondents across twelve faculties in the university. A validated self-administered semi-structured questionnaire was used for  data collection. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. The findings revealed a  statistically significant relationship between information literacy, social media use, and knowledge-sharing practices of undergraduates  (F= 89.375, p<0.05). The finding exposes that information literacy (β = 0. -1.074, p<0.05) and social media use (β = -0.979, p<0.05) jointly  had a significant interactive effect on knowledge-sharing practices of undergraduates. This paper concluded that the university enabling  environment had a significant influence on information literacy, social media use, and knowledge-sharing practices among  undergraduates. It was recommended that such efforts should be retained with a view to sustaining the existing culture of knowledge  sharing among university undergraduates in the university.