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Imagined Audiences, Acceptable Identity Fragments and Merging the Personal and Professional: How Academic Online Identity Is Expressed through Different Social Media Platforms
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Jordan, Katy – Learning, Media and Technology, 2020
The rise of social media and its permeation into all aspects of social life has in turn led to its adoption and use by academics in their professional lives. Social media, and social networking sites in particular, require profiles and cultivation of an online identity. An individual may use a range of online platforms, and existing models of…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Professional Identity, Social Media, Models
Decoding ClassDojo: Psycho-Policy, Social-Emotional Learning and Persuasive Educational Technologies
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Williamson, Ben – Learning, Media and Technology, 2017
ClassDojo is one of the world's most successful educational technologies, currently used by over 3 million teachers and 35 million children globally. It reinforces and enacts emerging governmental "psycho-policies" around the measurement and modification of children's social and emotional learning in schools. This article focuses…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Social Development, Emotional Development, Psychological Patterns
Visitors and Residents: Mapping Student Attitudes to Academic Use of Social Networks
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Wright, Fiona; White, David; Hirst, Tony; Cann, Alan – Learning, Media and Technology, 2014
The Visitors and Residents model of internet use suggests a continuum of modes of engagement with the online world, ranging from tool use to social spaces. In this paper, we examine evidence derived from a large cohort of students to assess whether this idea can be validated by experimental evidence. We find statistically significant differences…
Descriptors: Internet, Student Attitudes, Social Networks, Models
From Openness to Permeability: Reframing Open Education in Terms of Positive Liberty in the Enactment of Academic Practices
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Oliver, Martin – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
This paper explores the idea of open education, focusing specifically on the concept of openness. Previous discussions of open education are reviewed, using Knox's discussion of "unfreedoms" as a critical lens. Contrasts are then drawn with the concept of "flexibility", to illustrate ways in which openness could be developed.…
Descriptors: Open Education, Case Studies, Educational Practices, Educational Theories
Challenging Ideals of Connected Learning: The Networked Configurations for Learning of Migrant Youth in the Netherlands
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de Haan, Mariette; Leander, Kevin; Ünlüsoy, Asli; Prinsen, Fleur – Learning, Media and Technology, 2014
New infrastructures that dramatically change our possibilities for knowledge production and learning have also brought forward ideals on "new" connectivity. Two important ideals of connectivity are that of the individual who tailors his or her knowledge among expansively dispersed resources, and the ideal of access to multiple, diverse…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Network Analysis, Qualitative Research, Discourse Analysis
Unravelling the Social Network: Theory and Research
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Merchant, Guy – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
Despite the widespread popularity of social networking sites (SNSs) amongst children and young people in compulsory education, relatively little scholarly work has explored the fundamental issues at stake. This paper makes an original contribution to the field by locating the study of this online activity within the broader terrain of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Social Environment, Research Needs
Networks and Locations for Student Learning
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Jones, Chris; Healing, Graham – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
This article examines the significance of place and location at a time when mobile and networked technologies allow students access from a diversity of contexts. The article reports a cultural probe exercise. Over a 24-hour period, undergraduate students received SMS text messages and recorded answers to a fixed set of prompt questions using a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Handheld Devices, Information Networks