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Technological Utopia, Dystopia and Ambivalence: Teaching with Social Media at a South African University
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Rambe, Patient; Nel, Liezel – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
The discourse of social media adoption in higher education has often been funnelled through utopian and dystopian perspectives, which are polarised but determinist theorisations of human engagement with educational technologies. Consequently, these determinist approaches have obscured a broadened grasp of the situated, socially constructed nature…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Educational Technology, Phenomenology, Foreign Countries