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ERIC Number: EJ1260765
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 17
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ISSN: EISSN-2295-3159
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Peer Selection and Influence: Students' Interest-Driven Sociodigital Participation and Friendship Networks
Li, Shupin; Kiuru, Noona; Palonen, Tuire; Salmela-Aro, Katariina; Hakkarainen, Kai
Frontline Learning Research, v8 n4 p1-17 2020
Digital technologies have been increasingly embedded in students' everyday lives. Interest-driven sociodigital participation (ISDP) involves students' pursuit of interests mediated by computers, social media, the internet, and mobile devices' integrated systems. ISDP is 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.
European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction. Peterseliegang 1, Box 1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. e-mail: info@frontlinelearningresearch.org; Web site: http://journals.sfu.ca/flr/index.php/journal/index
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 7; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland
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