The role of social media in higher education classes (real and virtual) - A literature review

By Paul A. Tess. Computers in Human Behavior, 2013

986 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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How researchers see this paper

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In Communication

1. Maria Ranieri
2. Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
3. Stefania Manca
4. Doris U. Bolliger
5. Florence Martin
6. Angie L. Miller
7. Amber D. Dumford
8. Saleh Al-Salman

In Education

1. Florence Martin
2. Doris U. Bolliger
3. Maria Ranieri
4. Stefania Manca
5. Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
6. Angie L. Miller
7. Amber D. Dumford
8. Saleh Al-Salman

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Maria Ranieri
2. Stefania Manca
3. Chandrashekhar Kandpal
4. Anuja Arora
5. Reema Aswani
6. Shivam Bansal
7. David Camacho
8. Jason J. Jung

Citations in the corpus

• Social big data: Recent achievements and new challenges (2015, background): “), education [13], health [14], and daily work.”
• Measuring social media influencer index- insights from facebook, Twitter and Instagram (2019, background): “The impact is evident in various domains including healthcare (McNeill and Briggs, 2014), education (Tess, 2013), business (Qualman, 2010), Coding portal (Bana et al., 2018), fashion marketing (Wiedmann et al., 2010).”
• Engagement Matters: Student Perceptions on the Importance of Engagement Strategies in the Online Learning Environment. (2018, background): “Utilization of social media in online courses provides an opportunity to enhance engagement through social interaction (Everson, Gundlach, & Miller, 2013; Tess, 2013).”
• Online learning in higher education: exploring advantages and disadvantages for engagement (2018, background): “The explosion of social media within the past decade has had an increasing impact on higher education, and more recent research indicates trends for the importance of incorporating social media into the classroom (Evans 2014; Junco et al. 2010, 2013; Tess 2013).”
• Facebook and the others. Potentials and obstacles of Social Media for teaching in higher education (2016, background): “…much of the literature in the field focuses on the potentials of Social Media for learning (Greenhow & Askari, 2015; Manca & Ranieri, 2013, 2015; Tess, 2013) or provides empirical evidence relating to their use in higher education by students (Bennett, Bishop, Dalgarno, Waycott, & Kennedy,…”