Facing off: Facebook and Higher Education

Title
Facing off: Facebook and Higher Education
Publication Date
2012
Author(s)
Bateman, Debra
Willems, Julie
Editor
Editor(s): Laura A Wankel, Charles Wankel
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Place of publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
Edition
1
Series
Cutting-edge Technologies in Higher Education
DOI
10.1108/S2044-9968(2012)0000005007
UNE publication id
une:10939
Abstract
A social and cultural expectation that Information Communication Technologies (ICT) should be ubiquitous within peoples' daily lives is apparent. Connecting generational groups with a specific set of technological attributes also assumes the ways that particular groups of students should be able/do "naturally" use emergent mobile and social technologies. Moreover, the use of social networking technologies is evident in a number of ways within higher education (HE) pedagogies. As part of the suite of possibilities in Web 2.0, Facebook is used in a number of ways to support communications within and between institutions and their students as well as a mechanism for teaching and learning within specific units of study. The chapter commences with a broad discussion about social sharing software of Web 2.0, specifically Facebook, as a potential teaching and learning tool in HE contexts. We traverse recent exemplars and discourses surrounding the use of social technologies for the purposes of HE. It is clear from the literature that while there is much excitement at the possibilities that such technologies offer, there are increasing anxieties across institutional and individual practitioners, in regard to possible consequences of their use.
Link
Citation
Misbehavior Online in Higher Education, p. 53-79
ISBN
1780524560
9781780524566
Start page
53
End page
79

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