First-Generation Students and College: The Role of Facebook Networks as Information Sources
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...Moreover, researchers have argued that SNSs might be re-imagined as supports for student learning outcomes from two vantage points: first, they can facilitate peer/ alumni support to help learners manage the ups and downs of high school or college life and support academic help-seeking where learners use their social network site to get help with school-related tasks (Greenhow, 2011) or the high school-to-college transition process (Jeon et al. 2015); second, SNSs can catalyze civic benefits....
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...3 In the case of studies that involve the participant in interpreting the visualization, the effectiveness is often further enhanced by their inherent expertise regarding the data [24]....
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...Research addresses the proliferation of networks and communities across these platforms as well as the content of discussions and practices of sharing [1, 5, 48, 73, 83, 109]....
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...And social media platforms, like Facebook, help people seek career inspiration from friends and family [33,58,65]....
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...Moreover, researchers examining question asking in SNSs within the framework of social capital have found other relational benefits to answering questions from friends, including signaling attention to specific ties and social grooming [14, 16]....
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