Designing a Scenario-Based Questionnaire to Assess Behavioral Intention in Social Networking Sites’ Ethical Dilemmas

This chapter explores five ethical dilemmas associated with using Social Networking Sites (SNS) in classrooms. First, do we have the right to colonize or marginalize students' out of school social networking practices in the classroom? Second, should we access students' out of classroom virtual identities from their SNS in a classroom context? Third, should we be engaging students' social networking in public performances of the curriculum? Fourth, are we prepared for recognising and responding to illicit activity in SNS? Fifth, do teachers understand the implications of exposing their out of school identities to their students who inhabit the same social network? The authors do not dispute that SNS in the classroom can be a rich site for learning, but they argue that the concept of ethics as a process of analyzing and respecting the other is essential if we are to responsibly engage with SNS in the classroom.

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Job Searches via Social Networking Sites

Handbook of Research on Business Social Networking ◽

10.4018/978-1-61350-168-9.ch022 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 418-432

Author(s):

Norazah Mohd Suki ◽

T. Ramayah ◽

Michelle Kow Pei Ming

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Job Search ◽

Behavioral Intention ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Perceived Usefulness ◽

Intention To Use ◽

Job Seekers ◽

Job Searches ◽

Search Tool ◽

Behavioral Intention To Use

This chapter aims to examine the factors influencing employed job seekers’ acceptance of social networking sites as a job search tool. It was found that perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment are positively and significantly related to the behavioral intention to use social networking sites as a job search tool, whereas perceived ease of use is not positively and significantly related to the behavioral intention to use social networking sites as a job search tool. The study implies that the developers of social networking sites need to provide additional useful functionalities or tools in the social networking sites to help users of social networking site with their job searches. There needs to be an assurance that social networking sites will not disclose an individual’s private and confidential information without his or her consent.

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The Ethical Dilemmas of Social Networking Sites in Classroom Contexts

The Social Classroom - Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-4904-0.ch010 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 192-207

Author(s):

Glenn Auld ◽

Michael Henderson

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Ethical Dilemmas ◽

The Other ◽

Classroom Context ◽

The Right ◽

Out Of School ◽

Illicit Activity

This chapter explores five ethical dilemmas associated with using Social Networking Sites (SNS) in classrooms. First, do we have the right to colonize or marginalize students’ out of school social networking practices in the classroom? Second, should we access students’ out of classroom virtual identities from their SNS in a classroom context? Third, should we be engaging students’ social networking in public performances of the curriculum? Fourth, are we prepared for recognising and responding to illicit activity in SNS? Fifth, do teachers understand the implications of exposing their out of school identities to their students who inhabit the same social network? The authors do not dispute that SNS in the classroom can be a rich site for learning, but they argue that the concept of ethics as a process of analyzing and respecting the other is essential if we are to responsibly engage with SNS in the classroom.

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