The use of online social networking for higher education from an activity theory perspective

PACIS 2010 - 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1414-1425

  Hamid, Suraya ^a   Waycott, Jenny ^b   Kurnia, Sherah ^a   Chang, Shanton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Educational activities; Higher education; Online social networking (OSN); Social technologies

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY THEORY; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES; FORMAL LEARNING; HIGHER EDUCATION; PHOTO SHARING; SOCIAL BOOKMARKING; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; TEACHING AND LEARNING; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; VIDEO SHARING;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84862955781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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