Investigating the Factors Affecting Knowledge Sharing within Sudanese Scientific Group on Social Media

Abstract

Social networking sites are a way to connect all users to each other and help disseminate information and acquire knowledge. The problem is that there is a need to investigate the factors that affect the knowledge sharing in the scientific group, there is no obvious model and the process of sharing knowledge in scientific groups. So there is a need to solve this problem. Research objectives are analyze the main attributes used to evaluate the knowledge sharing activities in scientific group, propose a model for these attributes that affect knowledge sharing, verify the model, and investigate the factors that affect knowledge Sharing with Scientific Group) on Social media. The proposed model contains attributes such as rate of use of scientific subjects (daily, weekly, monthly, rarely) in sharing the knowledge time spent in the social network scientific group in order to gain the new knowledge and the type of knowledge that is shared (videos, pictures, audio clips and text files). As the main attributes that knowledge sharing these features had been analyzed and found to have an impact on the share of knowledge. Research conclude this model have to be one of the tools and guide line when the consideration is about analyzing the impact of science group activities in social network on sharing knowledge This research recommends to use this model to investigate the impact of scientific group activities in network sharing systems.