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Alshalawi  \nUniversity of Jeddah, College of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia  \nORCID: 0000-0003-0781-2004  \nReceived: 22 Jul 2021 Accepted: 12 Nov 2021  \nAbstract  \nAs the statistics show, use of social media networks (SMNs) are very common among college students worldwide. According to a report by Hootsuite, Saudi Arabia was ranked as the number-one country in the growth of social media users. With the advancement of technology and internet speed, investigating how SMNs affect students has become an absolute necessity. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the influence of social media networks (SMNs) on the academic performance of undergraduate students across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, taking gender differences into account. An invitation email to participate in the online survey was sent to all undergraduate students at five public universities in Saudi Arabia. In total, 453 students from five public universities participated in this study. The results suggested that female students tend to spend more time on SMNs for general purposes and academic purposes than male students. In regard to multitasking with SMNs during schoolwork and social media usage intensity, the results showed no significant differences between male and female students. Finally, the regression analysis showed a positive relationship between students’ academic performance and SMNs usage intensity after gender and high school GPA were controlled for.  \nKeywords: social media, learning performance, gender studies, mobile learning  \nINTRODUCTION  \nPeople are eager to try new technologies, and social media networks (SMNs) are among the popular internetbased technologies that attract many people (Manca & Ranieri, 2016) . Ellison (2007) defines SMNs as “webbased services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system,(2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system”(p. 211) . SMNs have attracted hundreds of millions of people, who make them a part of their daily lives and use them to connect with others based on their interests (Clarkson, 2012) . Initially, SMNs were intended to be tools for socializing (Madge et al., 2009) . However, people have expanded the uses of SMNs to areas such as business (Li et al., 2014), tourism (Gao et al., 2012), and education (Sánchez et al., 2014) . SMNs are platforms that people join to be part of the networks, investigate their contents, build social and educational relationships, and share their experiences (Jiao et al., 2015) .  \nAccording to a report by Hootsuite (“DIGITAL in 2020”), there are 3.8 billion social media users around the world. Since January 2019, the number of social media users has increased by 9. 2%, with 321 million new users. As the statistics show, use of SMNs are very common among college students worldwide. For example, Fodah and Alajlan (2015) found that 99% of undergraduate students in Saudi Arabia are active SMNs users.  \nThe same Hootsuite report ranked Saudi Arabia as the number-one country in the growth of social media users. Saudi Arabia is experiencing rapid growth in information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure. With this growth and expansion in ICT, SMNs usage is increasing. Saudi Arabia is one of the developing countries that allocates a significant portion of its budget to education. However, with the advancement of technology and internet speed, investigating how SMNs affect students has become an absolute necessity. In particular, the impact of SMNs use on academic performance needs to be studied. The purpose of this study is to determine how SMNs usage affects academic performance.  \nLITERATURE REVIEW  \nThis growing phenomenon, SMNs usa","cbCaiaXw1QNNjWd2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaXw1QNNjWd2","pdf",408052,13,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Literature Review","[{\"question\":\"What was the study’s main purpose?\",\"answer\":\"To examine how social media networks usage affects the academic performance of undergraduate students across Saudi Arabia, considering gender differences.\"},{\"question\":\"How were participants recruited and how many students participated?\",\"answer\":\"An invitation email was sent to undergraduate students at five public universities; 453 students participated in the online survey.\"},{\"question\":\"What did the results show about gender differences in SMN usage?\",\"answer\":\"Female students tend to spend more time on SMNs for both general and academic purposes than male students, and multitasking differences were not significant by gender.\"}]","Social Media Usage Intensity and Academic Performance among Undergraduate Students in Saudi Arabia | PDF",1792090086,33]