Faculty and student interactions via Facebook: Policies, preferences, and practices

IT - Information Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 216-223

  Hank, Carolyn ^a   Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^b   Tsou, Andrew ^b   Pomerantz, Jeffrey ^c  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

ACM CCS Proper nouns: People; ACM CCS Social and professional topics Computing technology policy; ACM CCS Social and professional topics Professional topics Computing education Computing education programs Information science education; ACM CCS Social and professional topics Professional topics Computing education Informal education; Context collapse; Dual relationships; Graduate programs; Honor codes; Social media; Social networking sites; technologies and companies Technologies Facebook

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ACM CCS→PROPER NOUN: PEOPLE; ACM CCS→SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL TOPIC→COMPUTING/TECHNOLOGY POLICY; ACM CCS→SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL TOPIC→PROFESSIONAL TOPIC→COMPUTING EDUCATION→COMPUTING EDUCATION PROGRAM→INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION; ACM CCS→SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL TOPIC→PROFESSIONAL TOPIC→COMPUTING EDUCATION→INFORMAL EDUCATION; COMPUTING EDUCATION; COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; CONTEXT COLLAPSE; DUAL RELATIONSHIP; EDUCATION PROGRAMMES; FACEBOOK; GRADUATE PROGRAMME; HONOR CODE; INFORMAL EDUCATIONS; INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION; PROPER NOUNS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TECHNOLOGY AND COMPANY→TECHNOLOGY→FACEBOOK; TECHNOLOGY POLICY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85006597414     PISSN: 16112776     EISSN: 21967032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/itit-2014-1061     Document Type: Article

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