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ERIC Number: EJ1234655
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Nov
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1741-4350
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Adolescents' Agentic Work on Developing Personal Pedagogies on Social Media
Tan, Lynde; Kim, Beaumie
Literacy, v53 n4 p196-205 Nov 2019
While current research points out that young people are developing emerging culture of learning in informal spaces, less is known about such digital literacy practices in the Asian contexts where the notion of literacy tends to refer to school literacy. Research on young people's online participatory culture continues to suggest that social media offer affinity spaces where extensive knowledge is acquired, constructed and produced outside of schools. In this paper, we use two case studies on social media as illustrative examples to understand how adolescents shape their learning online. We aim to contribute to the ongoing dialectics on social media and learning by examining how adolescents exhibit agency online. We argue that social media such as Facebook offer high learner agency environments for adolescents to participate in self-initiated enterprise and allow them to develop personal trajectories for learning. The case studies presented in this paper suggested that the adolescents' pursuit of their passions on online affinity spaces gave rise to intellectual friendships and the development of personal pedagogies.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Asia
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