Social Media and Education

Eve Stirling is a Senior Lecturer in Design at Sheffield Institute of Art at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Her research interests include the use of social media within society and she is interested in the proliferation of digital spaces within our everyday lives. She uses practice based and visual research methods to explore the everyday lives of her participants.Neil Selwyn is a Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. His research and teaching focuses on the place of digital media in everyday life, and the sociology of technology (non)use in educational settings. Recent books include: Is Technology Good For Education? (2016) and Everyday Schooling in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2018).

• Introduction: Social media and education . . . now the dust has settled 1. Social media and education: reconceptualizing the boundaries of formal and informal learning 2. New literacies practices of teenage Twitter users 3. Using Facebook as a co-learning community in higher education 4. Self-regulated learning and social media – a ‘natural alliance’? Evidence on students’ self-regulation of learning, social media use, and student–teacher relationship 5. Technology, time and transition in higher education – two different realities of everyday Facebook use in the first year of university in the UK 6. Engagement in structured social space: an investigation of teachers’ online peer-to-peer interaction 7. Online content creation: looking at students’ social media practices through a Connected Learning lens 8. Student Facebook groups as a third space: between social life and schoolwork