Fostering students’ evaluation behaviour while searching the internet

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Use of Social Media across Different Generations in Higher Education in a Developing Country

While social media is increasing its extent and reach every day, research shows that its impact seems to be more intense in developing countries for various reasons. In developing countries, social media not only satisfies personal communication needs but also tends to compete with mainstream media for news and play a significant role in social movements. Hence potential use of this mounting medium for education needs to be explored. In this study, a social media and education survey has been prepared in order to measure perceptions, awareness and concerns of students and educators coming from different generations on the topic of social media and its use in education. Such a study is crucial to materialize different policies and strategies for enhancing education with this popular and freely available technology. Students' and faculty members' perceptions, expectations and willingness about the educational use of social media are analyzed and different generations are compared. Results of this study could shed light for developing various strategies for integration of social media into Higher Education in developing countries where the difference between generations is typically felt larger

Contextualised Concerns: The Online Privacy Attitudes of Young Adults

Part 3: Ethical, Social, and Legal AspectsInternational audienceExisting research into online privacy attitudes, whilst useful, remains insufficient. This paper begins by outlining the shortcomings of this existing research before offering a fresh approach which is inspired by Solove’s notion of “situated and dynamic” privacy. With reference to ongoing PhD research it is argued that the generation of rich, situated data can help us to understand privacy attitudes in context. In this research semi-structured interviews are being used in order to grasp how young adults understand, manage, and negotiate their privacy across online settings. The paper concludes with a call for further qualitative research into online privacy attitudes and suggests focusing on more niche online settings than Facebook