Entering Their World: Using Social Media to Support Students in Modern Times

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Corinne A. Green ◽  
Emily McMillan ◽  
Lachlan Munn ◽  
Caitlin Sole ◽  
Michelle J. Eady
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Support Students

Role of Social Media and E-Commerce for Business Entrepreneurship

2020 ◽  
pp. 01-18
Author(s):  
Aritra Brahma ◽  
Rajasi Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Global Platform ◽  
Digital Channels ◽  
Day By Day

This paper is an attempt to study the role of social media and e-commerce for business entrepreneurship in modern times. Social media and e-commerce play significant role for development of business enterprises and also for its marketing and sustainable growth. Internet access is most popular in recent days intensifying the use of mobile phones, computers, and laptops leading to a high change in the growth of digital channels both in strength and volume. Social media and internet play an ever-growing role in the lives of consumers. Now consumers are spending more time on social media and internet surfing. Thus the visibility of any product is more available through social media or internet than traditional marketing techniques. Online marketing is flourishing due to social media, people nowadays spend their time on social media and that is great for marketing, there are millions of monthly active users for various sites in social media. Day by day growth of online marketing in the global platform is an evident that the business entrepreneurship is taking place with a high speed. E-commerce website is providing all the goods and services through online portals online today. The increasing number of ecommerce websites.

scholarly journals Transition 2.0: Digital technologies, higher education, and vision impairment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Pacheco
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
Transition To Higher Education ◽  
Support Students

This article introduces Transition 2.0, a paradigm shift designed to study and support students with disabilities’ transition to higher education. Transition 2.0 is the result of a qualitative study about how a group of young people with vision impairments used digital technologies for their transition to university. The findings draw from observations, a researcher diary, focus groups, individual interviews, and data from social media. The article discusses a conventional view of transition, referred to here as Transition 1.0, which has dominated disability-related research and service provision in higher education. It counters this view by further developing the conceptual framework for Transition 2.0. The findings expand current conceptual approaches to transition by incorporating in the analysis the role played by digital tools such as social media and mobile devices. They also provide a new lens through which to study and understand student engagement in higher education.

scholarly journals Enhancing the student experience with the use of a dedicated subject website

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Rachel Hilliam ◽  
Gaynor Arrowsmith
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Community Of Learners ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Effective Assessment ◽  
Assessment Strategies ◽  
Support Students

It is crucial not only to support students at all stages of their student journey, but also to create a space where they can benefit from peer support and interact with the wider mathematics and statistics (M&S) community. In a society awash with social media, it is possible to create online spaces that complement and enhance existing communities available in traditional face-to-face courses, or to provide such an environment for students who learn at a distance. The School of Mathematics and Statistics at The Open University (OU) has recently consolidated existing resources into a website resulting in an active and vibrant community of learners. The site contains resources, which students access at appropriate points in their student journey through M&S modules and qualifications. These resources are complemented by a number of dedicated and well-used online forums. In particular, a forum providing course choice information. Discussions in the forum have ultimately led to improvements in the structure of M&S qualifications, influencing the content of new modules, more effective assessment strategies, and better ways of supporting students. It is a true community of learners, where everyone - students, academics and educational advisors - all contribute, learn from each other, and shape the student experience.

scholarly journals An Analysis Of Students' Speaking Difficulties at Eighth Grade Smpit At-Taqwa Surabaya

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Nur Hidayat ◽  
Zhela Meylinda Clarita
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Teacher Interviews ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Home And School ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Descriptive Method

The purpose of this study was to investigate the difficulties of students in speaking English. The researcher used a qualitative descriptive method in this study. The subjects of this study were eighth-grade students A and D SMPIT At-Taqwa 2018/2019 academic year consisting of 40 students and English teachers. Data collections of this study were observation, student questionnaires, and student and teacher interviews. The results of this study indicate that 25% of students have difficulty speaking English. The efforts made by students and teachers to overcome difficulties in speaking English such as: taking English tutoring, listening English songs, practicing reading, writing and speaking at home and school. They also communicate through social media with foreign citizens, joining English Camp, watching western movies or change film subtitles with English. Then the solution given by the teacher is an additional lesson hour to support students who felt difficult in speaking English.

scholarly journals Networking Imagery As a Means of Communication in Social Media

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla V. Drozdova
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Representational System ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Cyber Space

During the last decade, new media have become aggregators of visual content which translates socio-cultural meanings, practices of vision and techniques of watching and communication styles in real-time. Nowadays it is possible to analyze a multitude of universes existing on the Internet, diverse in their content, with unique voices and their particular ways of visual self-presentation on a cyber space. With the development  of social media, visual practices replace “networking talks”, and these practices fix polyphony, polystylism, and the fragmented nature of modern times, while at the same time being the expression of collective and individual needs. Visual users’ content has acquired a new status: it has turned from a means of representing and documenting events into a means of “pure communicating” with the help of which information is shortened and simplified, and interaction is constructed in line with social expectations and norms. In general, it indicates the ongoing cultural transformations associated with the transition from representational system of culture to presentational online culture. Keywords: online communication, social networks, visuality, media studies

scholarly journals Mobile Assisted Language Learning: Platfoms To Support Students Teacher Improving Reading Skill

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Prativi Khilyatul Auliya ◽  
Tri Yuli Ardiyansah ◽  
Ribeh Najib Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Mobile Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Support Students

This study was investigating the platforms on Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) that mostly used by students teachers on first and second year to improve their reading skill. Qualitative research design which used questionnaire and interview was employed to gain and analyze the data. The result showed that 79.3% students benefited various platforms, while the rest never used any platforms to support improving their reading skill. The top-five platforms were; (1) Wattpad, (2) Social Media, (3) Duolingo, (4) U-Dictionary, and (5) Quora. Students favored those platforms due to its popularity, attractiveness, efficiency, and benefit. The up-to-date and popular platform such as various social media and Quora were used to improve reading skill by connecting them to communicate to English native. Attractive platform such as Wattpad, where they could read countless stories was demanded to please their soul of readers. The efficient ones, Duolingo and U-Dictionary were chosen by them who prefer to learn in organized way. Fortunately, all of those platforms offered advantages for students such as improving their vocabulary acquisition, grammar competence, reading speed, and reading comprehension as well.

Is Somebody Spying on Us?

2020 ◽  
pp. 156-172
Author(s):  
Şadiye Deniz
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Dominant Effect ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Privacy Settings ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
The Creation

One of the concepts that have a strong and dominant effect in transforming the culture, individual, and society of social media has been privacy. Everything that belongs to our domestic space in modern times, which should not be known/seen by others, is made public by ourselves in the postmodern age with new media tools. In social networks focusing on vision and surveillance, privacy is restricted, eliminated, or stretched by individuals themselves for the creation of ideal profiles. The privacy settings that a person thinks are under his control seriously affect the way he uses social media. This chapter will try to determine which subject/situation/images are perceived as intimate among university students, and how the boundaries of social media and privacy are drawn and transformed. The study is based on the assumption that the level of privacy awareness and the level of knowledge control influence the quality and frequency of social media sharing of users.

scholarly journals Care of the self in the age of algorithms: Early thoughts from a Foucauldian perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Nguyen Trung Kien
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Ancient Times

Care of the self, according to Michel Foucault, is the practice of coming back to one’s soul and construct the truth of self. While in ancient times, people cared for themselves by writing in hupomnemata, in our modern times, we use social network sites (SNSs) or social media. These digital platforms have provided users with many technological advantages to conduct the online care of self. Sharing a post, posting a status, tweeting a photo or video, replying to a friend’s comments, or revising stories stored in their virtual timeline is one of many self-care acts in a virtual space. However, these advantages of digital technologies accompany with the challenges of losing freedom or being supervized by algorithms whenever individuals engage in social media. This paper tries to answer the question that how modern practices of hupomnemata and care for self, are supported and manipulated by social media’s algorithms. The paper is expected to contribute a new understanding of the self and care for the self in contemporary social media engagement.

scholarly journals Social Media in EFL Context: Attitudes of Saudi Learners

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1029
Author(s):  
S. M. Fazlul Haque ◽  
Norah Mofareh Al Salem
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Electronic Survey ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Support Students

This study investigates the impact of Social Media (SM) on students’ attitudes towards the process of learning EFL from the learners’ perspectives. The hypothesised model is developed through social learning theory proposed by Vygotsky (1978). The sample population of this research consists of 228 undergraduate students (153 females and 75 males) enrolled in the Department of English Language at Najran University in Saudi Arabia. The instruments used to gather data from the participants included a self-designed online electronic survey and semi-structured interviews. Results show that Najran University students believe that SM positively improves their understanding of English. Moreover, students agree that SM is a good platform to improve their proficiency in English. They also reported that SM changes their attitudes towards English positively. The findings also indicate that SM is a good platform for students as it provides opportunities for learners to study foreign languages. As SM tools grow and new generations get attached to them, additional studies on the adoption of these tools must be conducted to support students’ learning.

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