Abstract
This paper serves as an exploration into the landscape of social media use in educational research as it relates to urban youth in the United States. Initially, a social and learning context is provided that situates the implications social media may have for urban youth within formal and informal educational spaces. The paper offers a discussion of social media and recent studies in educational research as they relate to formal and informal learning spaces followed by implications of social media for these environments. A case is presented to reconceptualize a teaching and learning process with that of a social media process thereby connecting the formal academic space with the informal emergent educational space afforded by social media. To this point we have attempted to establish a social context of education for urban youth.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 189-208 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 2 |
State | Published - 2014 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Education
- Computer Science Applications