Social Media in Education...2.0 Style

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• The volatile modes of online interaction enabled by the new social media perhaps sit uncomfortably within existing higher education practice. The communicative landscapes opened up by social media can be spaces of strangeness and troublesomeness to the academy, both epistemologically and ontologically (Barnett 2005).

• To what extent do the new media challenge our conventional understandings of the way in which knowledge is generated and disseminated within the academy, and to what extent do they challenge or mesh with the changing idea of the university in the age of the digital? Do students possess the forms of ‘technoliteracy’ (Kahn & Kelner 2005) required to manage and produce academic knowledge within such spaces?

References:

Barnett R. (2005) Recapturing the universal in the university, Educational Philosophy and Theory 37, 785-797.

Kahn R. & Kelner D. (2005) Reconstructing technoliteracy: a multiple literacies approach. E-learning 2, 238–251.