scholarly journals Using Social Media as an Educational Tool: The Potential Role of Twitter in Enhancing the Student Learning Experience in Neuro/Anatomy

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Hennessy ◽  
Scott Border
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Educational Tool

scholarly journals Scaling Social Movements Through Social Media: The Case of Black Lives Matter

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511880791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Mundt ◽  
Karen Ross ◽  
Charla M Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Careful Management

In this article, we explore the potential role of social media in helping movements expand and/or strengthen themselves internally, processes we refer to as scaling up. Drawing on a case study of Black Lives Matter (BLM) that includes both analysis of public social media accounts and interviews with BLM groups, we highlight possibilities created by social media for building connections, mobilizing participants and tangible resources, coalition building, and amplifying alternative narratives. We also discuss challenges and risks associated with using social media as a platform for scaling up. Our analysis suggests that while benefits of social media use outweigh its risks, careful management of online media platforms is necessary to mitigate concrete, physical risks that social media can create for activists.

Political ‘apptivism’ in the Middle East: The case of iNakba

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 658-673
Author(s):  
Oren Golan ◽  
Noam Tirosh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Grassroots Level ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Scholarly Attention

The use of social media in the Arab world has drawn an increasing amount of scholarly attention. Research addressing ‘Arab Spring’ upheavals and Islamic military movements has demonstrated grassroots level and often spontaneous uses of social media platforms. However, little attention has been paid to political apps as an emergent means of communication. Specifically, this study asks how users and developers view the use of political apps within the Israeli–Palestinian context by focusing on iNakba – an app that enables users to navigate Palestinian villages that were destroyed during the 1948 war and its aftermath. Ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative analysis of interviews with iNakba users and developers uncover three key facets of the app: (1) crowd mobilization, (2) educational tool that reanimates the invisible landscape of pre-1948 Palestine, and (3) promoting the Palestinian narrative. The study illuminates the role of political apps as agents of change for identity building and shaping users’ political consciousness.

scholarly journals Exploring the role Social Media plays in the student learning experience of 2014 university life in NZ

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Aloundeth Panekham
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Social Bookmarking ◽  
Social Media Tools

<p>The purpose of this study is to explore how university students and lecturers use social media to support their learning and particularly to understand how such emerging technologies usage impacts student learning experience and class communication. In this research, social media tools under consideration are social networking sites, media sharing sites, creation and publishing tools, social bookmarking, and the Internet messaging.  This research employed purposive selection to obtain the quality of data from semi-structured interviews of twelve students and four lecturers from the Victoria University of Wellington who are known to have experience of using social media tools in their courses.  The study identified two major usages of social media to support learning activities, five key usage activities for students and four major usage activities for lecturers. Students’ choices and usages of social media applications were more diverse compared to the lecturers. The usages and preferences of students from different disciplines were varied. Moreover, there were numbers of social media interactions and communication among the students and their peers. Even though the interaction and communication between students and lecturers through social media was minimum due to the limited uses of social media for formal learning in class by lecturers and students, the lecturers and students expressed that the usage of social media helped improve class communication. Students’ engagement was only area that affected by social media choices and communication using social media by lecturers. The choices and communication by students would affect greater and wider aspects of student learning experience such as learning ability, communication and collaboration, problem solving, access to information, and productivity. Even though the usage of social media to support learning by students and lecturers did not impact student learning experience equally, the findings suggest that it helps facilitate learning activities, benefit students, and enhance the student learning experience to some extent.</p>

scholarly journals Purpose, Pedagogy and Philosophy: “Being” an Online Lecturer

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Coker
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
University Lecturers ◽  
Online Facilitation

Instructing online has become an increasingly common aspect of a university lecturer’s role. While research has developed an understanding of the student learning experience, less attention has been paid to the role of the lecturer. This study observed the practice of university lecturers teaching in a range of undergraduate degree programmes in the United Kingdom. The lecturers’ purpose, pedagogy, and philosophy emerged in the dialogic patterns of the online space. Practice was shaped by the lecturers’ epistemological positioning and their cultural values and beliefs. The practice, which was observed across different modules, reflected the different positions lecturers took when they approached online teaching. The research highlights the way in which a lecturers’ purpose, pedagogy, and philosophy are reflected in their online facilitation.

Negotiating Reunion in Intercountry Adoption Using Social Media and Technology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Shier
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Intercountry Adoption ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Birth Parents ◽  
Birth Family ◽  
Media And Technology

Abstract This article focuses on how intercountry adoptees use social media and technology to negotiate and facilitate reunion with their birth families. The qualitative data were drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with eleven adoptees who were internationally adopted to Ireland and have contact with their birth families using social media and technology. The findings from this interpretivist study demonstrate that social media and technology have significantly transformed and can now play a central role in reunion in intercountry adoption. They also suggest that social workers need to be aware of the emerging role of social media and technology in intercountry adoption reunion to develop further knowledge and skills in this area. Specifically, the study indicates that social media and technology have facilitated, ‘normalised’ and casualised aspects of contact with birth family; increased the pace of contact and can pose challenges in navigating contact and boundaries. A key finding of this study relates to the importance of contact with birth siblings and their potential role as mediators and facilitators of contact with birth parents. Participants report that whilst social media and technology have facilitated their contact with birth family, it cannot and does not replace the need for ‘real life’ in-person contact.

scholarly journals The Role of Relatedness in Student Learning Experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Norhafezah Yusof ◽  
Rosna Awang-Hashim ◽  
Amrita Kaur ◽  
Marzura Abdul Malek ◽  
S. Kanageswari Suppiah Shanmugam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
University Management ◽  
Positive Learning Environment ◽  
Student Learning Experiences

Failure in addressing students’ needs in the context of student learning experiences may lead to negative impact on the image of higher education. Framed in self-determination theory, this study examined students’ relatedness on most satisfying experiences in their respective universities. Participants’ (N=1974) responses to open-ended questions were inductively coded to understand relatedness principles of student learning experiences to emerge from the data. The findings revealed that students valued the role of lecturers in professional and personal contexts, peers for friendship and teamwork and academic and non-academic experiences resulted from projects and activities. Given this, to provide a positive learning environment for students, university management needs to address and support lecturers’ well-being, pay attention to student relations on campus and support academic and non-academic activities. By understanding the roles of connecting students to lecturers, students to students and students to administrative staff, we could build a dynamic and functional campus environment for each party to live and care about each other. Keywords: Learning environment, Learning experience, Relatedness, Student engagement

scholarly journals The Role of Social Media on Students GPA

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karzan Wakil ◽  
Rebwar Nasraddin ◽  
Rajab Abdulrahan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Educational Technology ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Basic School ◽  
The Impact

In academia, social media is an educational tool that can attract students inside and outside classrooms and affect their total success. Using social media can have negative effects on the students like wasting time and social problems which have negative effects on grades and studying performance. In this work, conducted a survey in a basic school at Sulaymaniyah Governorate about the impact of using social media on students, Facebook particularly. We received 127 forms; then our analysis shows that using social media has a negative impact on students’ grades. Students who use Facebook for more than three hours had average grades of (66.88%), (73.59%) for one to three hours, and (%82.93) for less than an hour usage. Overall, every one hour using Facebook, the average score decreases by (%5.35). Therefore, decreasing the duration of using Facebook is helpful to increase the student’s average grades. Abstrak Dalam dunia pendidikan media sosial merupakan perangkat pendidikan yang dapat menarik perhatian siswa baik di dalam maupun di luar kelas dan memengaruhi kesuksesan mereka. Salah satunya wujudnya adalah penggunaan media sosial yang berlebihan dan membuahkan masalah-masalah sosial serta berimbas pada prestasi akademik mereka. Dalam penelitian ini peneliti melakukan survei di beberapa sekolah dasar di daerah Sulaimaniyah berkaitan dengan efek penggunaan media sosial, terutama Facebook, terhadap capaian akademik siswa. Balikan survei yang diterima oleh peneliti sejumlah 127 dokumen dan hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan media sosial berimbas negatif pada prestasi siswa. Rinciannya, siswa yang menggunakan Facebook lebih dari tiga jam rata-rata prestasinya 66,88%, untuk penggunaan antara satu hingga tiga jam rata-rata prestasinya 73,59%, dan untuk penggunaan di bawah satu jam rata-rata prestasinya 82,93%. Secara keseluruhan tiap penggunaan Facebook selama satu jam rata-rata prestasi siswa menurun 5,35%, oleh karena itu dapat disimpulkan bahwa pengurangan durasi penggunaan Facebook dapat membantu meningkatkan skor ratarata prestasi siswa  Keywords: Facebok; educational technology; social media; GPA

scholarly journals The Potential Role of Social Media Platforms in Community Awareness of Antibiotic Use in the Gulf Cooperation Council States: Luxury or Necessity?

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. e233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hosam Mamoon Zowawi ◽  
Malak Abedalthagafi ◽  
Florie A Mar ◽  
Turki Almalki ◽  
Abdullah H Kutbi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Antibiotic Use ◽  
Gulf Cooperation Council ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Social Media Platforms
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