Phubbing harms relationships and reduces well-being of phubbees. However, limited research has explored the potential causes and underlying mechanisms for phubbing; and an important risk factor, social anxiety, has been largely ignored from previous studies. The present study employed a moderated mediation model to examine whether social anxiety…

This study reviewed the mobile technology-supported music education (MTSME) studies published in several academic databases, namely Scopus, WOS, ERIC, and RILM, from 2008-2019. Based on the technology-based learning model, the application domains, research issues, sample groups, research methods, adopted devices, and learning strategies were…

Social network analysis can provide insight into the educational research community as it manifests and evolves online. This study presents a social network analysis of Twitter use during the American Educational Research Association 2017 Annual Conference. The overall social network is sparse with low density, with a few very active nodes and…

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted educational activities and created a long-lasting impact on educational systems worldwide. Multiple educational stakeholders were challenged by the pandemic, including students and families, teachers and administrators, schools and districts, and the government/policy makers. As an increasingly popular platform for…

The purpose of this research is to examine activities carried out on Twitter, which is a social media platform, on April 2 Autism Awareness Day; network structure in Turkey and in a global context, interaction patterns, the important nodes, user profiles, hashtag usage, and social mode within the context of the Twitter messages and discourses. In…

Infants with Down syndrome are more likely to experience feeding problems and mothers are likely to require more feeding support than mothers of typically developing infants. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many feeding support services changed from face-to-face to online, which impacted some maternal feeding experiences negatively, but no studies…

With the widespread adoption of social networking sites among college students, discerning the relationship between social networking sites use and college students' academic performance has become a major research endeavor. However, much of the available research in this area rely on student self-reports and findings are notably inconsistent.…

Computational social science methods provide a better understanding of how social work education programs use Twitter. Data mining and sentiment analysis of 2,509 tweets were conducted using the Information, Community, and Action conceptual framework. Programs primarily tweet content related to the theme of Information and the tone of the tweets…

WeChat is a highly popular social media in China and many other Asian countries, but little is known about its effectiveness in facilitating international students' academic and social functioning. Hence, the present study aimed to examine causal or reciprocal relationships among WeChat usage intensity, behavioral engagement in academic learning…

This paper explores the characteristics of mobile social media marketing adoption in the context of digital natives via an extended Mobile Technology Acceptance Model. Specifically, mobile usefulness and mobile ease of use were studied together with (1) networks relationship properties: homophily and tie-strength to understand their impacts on…

Instagram is a free, online social media application that facilitates social networking. Since Instagram is image dependent, educators create visuals accompanied by captions of up to 2,200 characters. By adding specific hashtags to captions, educator posts are curated by the algorithm into a broad community of practice, colloquially known as…

The smartphones we use in every aspect of our lives can be accessed anywhere without the limitation of physical space. This situation has led to excessive use of smartphones. Individuals, when unable to access their smartphones, experience anxiety and distress, revealing their nomophobic tendencies. Additionally, the availability of internet…

Although the swift proliferation of mobile technology has attracted considerable scholarly attention during the past few decades, relatively few studies have been devoted specifically to the potential influence of life satisfaction on mobile social media engagement among sojourning students. To address this research gap, the current study proposed…

This study analyzes the necessity of introducing multimedia technology into college badminton teaching and puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions for introducing multimedia technology into college badminton teaching. Taking badminton as an example, this paper studies the design and implementation of mobile teaching platform under O2O…

Telecollaboration has proved to be an excellent means for the development of students' intercultural skills (O'Dowd & Dooly, 2012). Based on this presumption, a telecollaborative project was carried out between B2 level (CEFR) learners of English from Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) and B1 level (CEFR) students of Spanish as a…