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Le présent mémoire propose une analyse sur la communication par l'entremise des médias sociaux, en occurrence Facebook, par les ministères et agences du Gouvernement du Canada et les citoyens. La question posée est celle de savoir si cet emploi utilise le plein potentiel dialogique offert par les médias sociaux. L'angle proposé est celui de la construction d'une grille d'analyse bâtie à base des composantes d'une communication dialogique telle que définie dans le cadre de la théorie de la communication dialogique. Nous proposons de mesurer le niveau dialogique des usages en sondant la présence de cinq caractéristiques de la communication dialogique : la mutualité, la proximité, l'empathie, le risque et l'encagement. Notre question de recherche est campée dans un phénomène social observé et documenté, soit la …
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Les organisations vérifient de plus en plus les médias sociaux des candidats dans le cadre de leurs processus de sélection du personnel. Toutefois, comme peu de recherches ont été effectuées à ce sujet, certains auteurs mentionnent qu'il est important de réaliser davantage d'études afin d'établir la validité prédictive de la vérification des médias sociaux (VMS) sur des critères organisationnels importants. Par ailleurs, comme les quelques recherches actuelles ont surtout étudié le site à vocation personnelle Facebook, l'étude du site à vocation professionnelle LinkedIn semble maintenant nécessaire. La présente étude visait à comparer la capacité de la vérification de Facebook et de LinkedIn à prédire la performance globale au travail ainsi que ses trois dimensions : la performance de tâche, les comportements de citoyenneté au travail …
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Social media is widely considered to improve collaborative learning among students and researchers. However, there is a surprising lack of empirical research in Malaysian higher education to improve performance of students and researchers through the effective use of social media that facilitates desirable outcomes. Thus, this study offers a review of the empirical literature, and its distinctiveness stems from the focus on collaborative learning and engagement to understand the interactive factors relevant that affect academic performance. This study also explores factors that contribute to the enhancement of collaborative learning and engagement through social media. It is unique in that it highlights that the effective use of social media for collaborative learning, engagement, and intention to use social media" - a phenomenon that relies on the theory of social constructivist learning. The findings showed that collaborative learning, engagement, and intention to use social media positively and significantly relate to the interactivity of research group members with peers and research students with supervisors to improve their academic performance in Malaysian higher education.
Keywords: social media, interactivity, intention to use, academic performance
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In fall 2013, the Parti Québécois proposed the Quebec Charter of Values (Bill 60), which aimed to secularize the provincial government, namely by prohibiting the wearing of religious symbols by public employees. Once tabled, the bill was subject to fierce and sometimes nasty debates about the status of religion, and in particular Islam, in Quebec. This text offers a thematic analysis of ten Facebook pages in support of the bill. It attempts to determine the political nature of the arguments that these pages present and examines the question of the emergence of an extreme right in Quebec by drawing from discussions of the extreme right and radical right in the current European research literature. The text concludes that the arguments and themes developed on these Facebook pages are indicative of a movement of the “radical right.”
Keywords: extrême droite, Charte des valeurs, radicalisation, sécularisation, islamophobie, Québec (province), radical right, Quebec Charter of Values, extreme right, radicalization, secularism, Islamophobia, Province of Quebec
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This study compares the usage of Social Networking Sites (SNS) in two non-Anglophone settings. A longitudinal mixed-method approach was designed to gather data face-to-face with Gen Y and Gen Z participants in Lyon (France) and St Petersburg (Russia) between 2011 and 2018, by means of survey, forum and focus groups. The initial differences observed in user behaviour were no longer apparent by 2018. Noticeably similar user behaviour reflected converging SNS consumption. From the findings, we identify socio-technical changes that influence SNS usage, in order to produce a typology of user behaviours for identifying user segments.
Keywords: Gen Y, Gen Z, SNS (social networking sites) usage, ICT, Génération Y, Génération Z, utilisation des SRS (sites de réseaux sociaux), TIC, Generación Y, Generación Z, uso de SNS (redes sociales), TIC
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Heeding the call in the literature on access to justice issues for researchers to extend their gaze beyond official sources of law, this article describes research detailing the use of social media for legal research and information sharing. While it is possible to look at social media as behind-the-scenes spaces for legislative and judicial activity, this research shows that they are above all else places for the reception and production of juridical information, bringing to the centre ground the voices and practices of citizens often neglected in legal research. However, such informal fora bring to the fore not only the speech, but also the legal know-how of the unitiated, local know-how because of its nature and the way it comes into being, know-how that is every bit as neglected in the legal research. This question of the recognition of the legal know-how of citizens, however fraught it may be, is undoubtedly deserving of further consideration in research and policy on access to justice. Ultimately, it is a matter of trying to understand the different types of legal know-how that underlie and provide the basis for the institution or potential institution of legal proceedings by members of the public.
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K-12 online learning and cyber charter schools have grown at a tremendous rate over the past decade. At the same time, these online programs have struggled to provide the social spaces where students can interact that K-12 schools are traditionally able to provide. Social networking presents a unique opportunity to provide these kinds of social interactions in an online environment. In this article, we trace the development and use of social networking at one cyber charter school to extend the space for online instruction and provide opportunities for social interaction that online schools are often unable to provide.
Keywords: K-12 online learning, virtual school, cyberschool, social networking
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The adoption of social media in e-learning signals the end of distance education as we know it in higher education. However, it appears to have very little impact on the way in which open and distance learning (ODL) institutions are functioning. Earlier research suggests that a significant part of the explanation for the slow uptake of social media in e-learning lies outside of conventional factors attributed to distance learning reforms.This research used the conceptual framework for online collaborative learning (OCL) in higher education. Social media such as blogs, wikis, Skype or Google Hangout, Facebook; and even mobile apps, such as WhatsApp; could facilitate deep learning and the creation of knowledge in e-learning at higher educational institutions.This metasynthesis is an interpretative integration of peer-reviewed qualitative research findings on social media in e-learning. It includes a synthesis of data, research methods, and theories used to investigate social media in e-learning. Seven themes emerged from the data which have been recrafted into a framework for social media in e-learning as the final product. The proposed framework could be useful to instructional designers and academics who are interested in using modern learning theories and want to adopt social media in e-learning in higher education as a deep learning strategy.
Keywords: Open distance learning, social media, e-learning, qualitative research, metasynthesis, online collaborative learning
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This article presents a case-study of two distance learning courses, in order to address the question of universal adoption of mobile devices and applications by students, and the impact of these devices in personal learning environments (PLEs). First, a critical discussion of the value of these concepts in the current technological context was carried out, followed by an analysis of their impact on educational use, based on data collected in online courses on physics and statistics at Universidade Aberta, the Portuguese Open University. The results indicated that all students have adopted mobile learning, and the make-up of an individual's PLE depends more on the learning resources available rather than on gender or age. These findings can help provide more efficient ways to implement learning by connecting current social needs to learners' mobile PLEs, particularly when flexibility of time and space are of utmost importance. Further studies at the Portuguese Open University will address a larger and more balanced sample of students across more course units.
Keywords: mobile learning, personal learning environment, social media, open university