Social Media Use In University Studies

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This book highlights the phenomenon of social media use in university studies based on its participants’ lived experience. It will appeal both to academics and practitioners interested in the human factors in the study environments saturated with technologies of social media. This book reveals multiple, sometimes contradictory dimensions of the phenomenon. The contradictions acquire a binary Janus-faced characteristic of uncertainty and paradox. Social media use in university studies also causes changes in experiencing time, space and relations. Teacher research participants sometimes perceive their time as stress or an additional load, which shows that social media use in university studies demands a new approach to teacher workload and its regulation. There is also the necessity of the sensitive democratic teacher—student pedagogical relationship. This book proves that the pedagogical relationship and human creativity essentially belong to the human living world and are still at the heart of the technological “cyborgian” existence. Acknowledgements......Page 6 Introduction......Page 7 Concepts Used in the Monograph......Page 12 Contents......Page 15 1.1.1 Complexity of Social Media Educational Use in University Studies......Page 17 1.1.2 Cultivating Insight: A Phenomenological Approach to Education and Technology......Page 20 1.2.1 Definition of “Social Media”......Page 26 1.2.2 Social Media in Education......Page 27 1.2.3 Integrating Social Media into the Study Process......Page 34 1.3 Social Media and Emerging Changes in University Studies......Page 38 1.3.1 Modernization of University Studies......Page 39 1.3.2 Learning Management Systems in University Studies......Page 43 1.3.3 Social Media Choices According to the Learning Objectives......Page 45 1.4 Social Media and Emerging Educational Approaches in University Studies......Page 46 1.4.1 Social-Media-Generated Approaches to Teacher–Student Interaction in University Studies......Page 47 1.4.2 Flexible Learning......Page 51 2.1 Choice of Research Methodology......Page 54 2.2 Inductive Qualitative Research Procedures: Data Collection and Data Analysis......Page 55 2.3 Phenomenological Approach......Page 58 2.4.1 Research Procedures of the International Study......Page 60 2.4.2 Research Procedures of the Inductive Qualitative Study with a Phenomenological Approach at Home Institutions......Page 64 3.1.1 Findings of the International Study......Page 68 3.1.2 Key Emerging Contradictions......Page 82 3.1.3 Emerging Positive Effects......Page 86 3.2 Inductive Qualitative Study with a Phenomenological Approach at Home Institution......Page 87 3.2.1 Findings of the Inductive Qualitative Study with a Phenomenological Approach at Home Institutions......Page 88 3.2.2 Key Emerging Contradictions......Page 120 3.2.3 Emerging Positive Effects......Page 124 3.2.4 Phenomenological Existentials......Page 126 3.2.5 The Core Super-Ordinate Themes of the Phenomenon......Page 131 Views on Social Media in University Studies from the Literature Overview......Page 148 Overview of the Research......Page 151 Discussion......Page 155 Recommendations......Page 157 Implications for Future Research......Page 159 Final Conclusion......Page 160 References......Page 163 Index......Page 177