Impacts of Social Media on students during COVID19: Handicapped children Lifestyle

In last year, because of coronavirus education has become possible via educational social media platforms to follow pandemic and “stay at home” rules. Among the potential users of social media who have affected considerably, children with disabilities can be considered. Furthermore, socialmedia and its addictive characteristic, which leads to wide range of disasters for handicapped children, would be undeniable. According to the current education process and detrimental impacts of social media crises, this article aims at studying challenges which handicapped children are faced with duringbenefiting from social media in COVID-19 period of time. Research methodology is reviewanalytical in which 15 recent articles related to social media utilization in Coronavirus pandemic, its advantages and disadvantages for children specially handicapped children have been studied, as wellas papers which focused on educational programs that are used currently. Findings show that although both healthy and handicapped children have been forced to utilize e-learning facilities such as different social media platforms, healthy lifestyle of children with special needs will be altered by advantagesand disadvantages of cyberspace. As a result, it could be concluded that in spite of wider scope of impacts of social media in handicapped children’s life, it is necessary for adults and young children to learn media literacy and use specific manageable social media to shape healthy lifestyle.

کلیدواژه ها:

Social Media ، coronavirus ، COVID19 ، social media crises ، students ، handicapped children