- Title
- Educational heterotopia and student's use of Facebook
- Creator
- Hope, Andrew
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/172563
- Identifier
- vital:14527
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.2209
- Identifier
- ISBN:1449-5554
- Abstract
- "Facebook" use in higher education has grown exponentially in recent years, with both academics and students seeking to use it to support learning processes. Noting that research into educational cyberspace has generally ignored spatial elements, this paper redresses this deficiency through using Foucault's (1986) discussion of "different spaces" to examine "Facebook" use. Recognising that more than simple façade space is also social practice, Foucault's heterotopian principles are used to explore spatial notions of difference (deviance and divergence), relational aspects (conflicts and connections) and flow (time and thresholds). It is argued that social networking sites offer possibilities for creative deviations, can foster learning communities and help to develop social relations. Yet they also distract students, allowing them to "escape" seminars, whilst giving rise to damaging, rigid definitions of work and study. Ultimately, if universities are to be architects of the future, rather than its victims, the inherent differences of such learning spaces need to be recognised and traditional notions of academic work challenged.
- Publisher
- Published jointly by: Australian Society for Educational Technology; and the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education; with support from: the International Society for Performance Improvement, Melbourne Chapter.
- Relation
- Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 32, no. 1 (2016), p. 47-58
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Authors retain copyright in their work and grant AJET right of first publication under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Social Media; College Students; Technology Uses in Education; Educational Technology; Teaching Methods; Computer Mediated Communication; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (England); Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering; 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; 1303 Specialist Studies in Education
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