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Peer selection and influence : Students’ interest-driven socio-digital participation and friendship networks
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, 2020.
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Abstract
- Digital technologies have been increasingly embedded in students’ everyday lives. Interest-driven socio-digital participation (ISDP) involves students’ pursuit of interests mediated by computers, social media, the internet, and mobile devices’ integrated systems.ISDPis likely to intertwine closely with young people’s social networks that has been scarcely studied quantitatively. To close this gap, the present paper investigated students’ peer selection and influence effects of the intensity of their ISDP and friendship networks. We collected two-wave data by administering a peer nomination to trace students’ friendship networks with peers and a self-reported questionnaire to examine students’ ISDP. Participants were 100 students in Finland (female: 53%; mean age = 13.48, in grade 7 in the first wave). Through stochastic actor-oriented modelling, the results showed that the students’ friendship ties with peers influenced the intensity of their ISDP practices to become more similar. Yet, students did not select peers as friends based on similar intensity levels of ISDP. Utilizing influence effect found in students’ ISDP and their peer networks, we suggest that connected learning (Ito et al., 2013) should be promoted to integrate students’ informal and formal learning in order to bridge the gap between students’ informal interest-related digital practices and formal educational practices. peerReviewed
- Subjects :
- peer friendship
social network analysis
interest-driven socio-digital participation
media_common.quotation_subject
tieto- ja viestintätekniikka
Bridge (interpersonal)
Education
sosiaaliset verkostot
nuoret
Mathematics education
Selection (linguistics)
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Social media
vertaisryhmät
Formal learning
media_common
business.industry
4. Education
05 social sciences
050301 education
Friendship
ystävyys
Nomination
The Internet
Psychology
business
0503 education
Mobile device
peer selection and influence
ystävät
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....52d7b5135b8bb99ef9d47a7d9f08d732