Student use of social media as a learning tool: a Kittler inspired approach

Clive Hedges; Rebecca Walters

Student use of social media as a learning tool: a Kittler inspired approach

SSSHL Education, Teaching Training and Social Work

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Preliminary results of an ongoing analysis of student use of social media to provide peer support over 2013-14. Kittler's ideas were used to enables us to consider how the commercial imperative of Facebook part of the underlying code that structures the multi-modal meaning. Students were found to be essentially out-sourced, without pay, to recycle administrative information and used existing ‘skills’ to provide upbeat assessments of each other’s emotional orientation to their studies.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 19 Mar 2015
Event	Teesside University Festival of Learning 2015 - Teesside University, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom Duration: 16 Mar 2015 → 19 Mar 2015

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Conference	Teesside University Festival of Learning 2015
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Middlesbrough
Period	16/03/15 → 19/03/15

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Student use of social media as a learning tool: a Kittler inspired approach

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