Browsing by Subject "Social media"
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Abne Praksisser Og Identitet – evidens fra forskeres og underviseres deltagelse i sociale medier
(Kognition & Paedagogik, 2014-06)The ways in which the new technologies and social media are used and perceived by researchers and teachers is insufficiently understood and explored. The aim of this study is to investigate individual researchers' ... -
Content is king: An analysis of how the Twitter discourse surrounding open education unfolded from 2009 to 2016
(Athabasca University Press, 2018-02)Inspired by open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open source software, the openness movement in education has different meanings for different people. In this study, we use Twitter data to examine the discourses ... -
Digital citizenship: student perceptions of the effectiveness of a digital citizenship intervention
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2016)The impact of a school-wide digital citizenship intervention using a cyber media expert at raising student awareness of 8 key online behaviours was investigated by using a mixed methods exploratory approach. A survey (n=20) ... -
Diversity in Canadian election-related Twitter discourses: Influential voices and the media logic of #elxn42 and #cdnpoli hashtags
(Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 2019)Using qualitative and quantitative content analysis of Twitter, this study examined 5,209 tweets with popular hashtags #elxn42 and #cdnpoli to determine what was discussed on the social media platform one week preceding ... -
Don’t trust #CDNMedia: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of Twitter posts from eight Canadian communities during #elxn42.
(IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 2018)Originally designed for networking and to deliver mostly inconsequential information, social media is becoming more prevalent in political landscapes [81], while traditional local news environments are diminishing. Part ... -
Education scholars’ evolving uses of Twitter as a conference backchannel and social commentary platform
(British Journal of Educational Technology, 2016)The scholarly community faces a lack of large-scale research examining how students and professors use social media in authentic contexts and how such use changes over time. This study uses data mining methods to better ... -
Frameworks and models for disseminating curated research outcomes to the public
(SAGE Open, 2019)In our post-truth society, mobilizing “facts” and “evidence” has never been more important. We live in an age that is paradoxically information rich due to the proliferation of Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs) ... -
Predictors of Facebook cyberbullying in female university students
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2017-03-29)Poster detailing research into factors that can predict cyberbullying in females. This study examined the relationship between cyberbullying and three variables: fear of missing out, stress, and self-esteem. -
Scholars' temporal participation on, temporary disengagement from, and return to Twitter
(First Monday, 2018)Even though the extant literature investigates how and why academics use social media, much less is known about academics’ temporal patterns of social media use. This mixed methods study provides a first-of-its-kind ... -
Social media enter the stadium : a case study on the political economy of media at the 2010 Winter Olympics
(2011-07-11)Just prior to the opening of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, a 21-year-old Georgian luger died after his sled left the Whistler Sliding Centre track travelling at 140 kilometres an hour. The following paper uses Critical ... -
Social media use among pre-service primary teachers
(TEIR Center, Duquesne University, 2013)This research explores preservice science teachers' social media practices as a first step in considering how to better utilize these tools in preservice teacher education. This is an important issue as these teachers ... -
Song of the grass-mud horse: language and resistance in Chinese social media
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2013)Several hundred million Chinese now use social media to support, question, or vehemently challenge their government, making for one of the most important political movements on the planet today. Confronted by constant ...
