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Anderson, Jimmeka L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although research has been done to explore social media as a safe space with Black girls (Womack, 2013), there is limited research that assesses social media as a counter space for Black girls' literacies. According to The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research (2017), Black teens are the largest users of Instagram and SnapChat.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Literacy, Adolescents, African Americans
Tutgun Ünal, Aylin; Tarhan, Nevzat; Muradi, Patrizia; Kurt, Ayse Sena – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2021
In this study, the aim was to conduct Turkish linguistic equivalence, validity and reliability studies of The Instagram Addiction Scale (TIAS) developed by Sholeh and Rusdi (2019) so that it can be used in the Turkish sample. This measuring instrument consists of two parts namely Instagram Feed Addiction and Instagram Story Addiction compiled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Addictive Behavior, Test Construction, Test Validity
Ahmadi, Zahra – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2021
This study was an attempt to investigate whether using Instagram had any significant effects on Iranian intermediate autonomous/dependent EFL learners' pictorial metaphors or not. In doing so, Oxford Placement Test was administered among100 EFL learners studying at Rooyesh language institute in Kelishad, Isfahan, Iran; and based on the results, 80…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Lozano-Blasco, Raquel; Mira-Aladrén, Marta; Gil-Lamata, Mercedes – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2023
Social networking sites are a new ecosystem of social relations in which adolescents follow public figures or influencers: instagrammers, tweeters and youtubers. Their behaviour in the posts they publish become a trend and a model for the new generations. In order to explore these behaviours and their consequences, it is useful to study the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Adolescents, Behavior, Information Dissemination
Valdivia, Andrea – Theory Into Practice, 2021
Much of the everyday lives of young people happens on social media, mainly those image-centric platforms, like Instagram. Participation in these platforms has increased practices of meaning-making associated with vernacular literacies. Digital production on Instagram articulates traditions from vernacular writing and photography and is…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Film Production, Social Media, Multimedia Materials
Hernández-Serrano, María José; Jones, Barbara; Renés-Arellano, Paula; Campos Ortuño, Rosalynn A. – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2022
This study analyses self-presentation practices and profiles among Spanish teenagers on Instagram and TikTok. Both of these online spaces prioritise and promote visual publications, are structured to allow feedback on self-presentation, and offer the user filters both to control self-image and to target specific audiences. Three research questions…
Descriptors: Profiles, Self Concept, Adolescents, Social Media
Brazill-Murray, Colleen Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Addictive disorders are a public health crisis that affects our society by draining our workforce, health care, judicial, education, and law enforcement, resources. Adolescents are particularly susceptible to social influence--for better and for worse--and addiction. Through social media, today's youth experience a whole new way of communicating.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Addictive Behavior, Mixed Methods Research, Attitude Measures
Mackenzie, Erin; Berger, Nathan; Holmes, Kathryn; Walker, Michelle – Research Ethics, 2021
Adolescent populations have become increasingly accessible through online data collection methods. Online surveys are advantageous in recruiting adolescent participants and can be designed for adolescents to provide informed consent without the requirement of parental consent. This study sampled 338 Australian adolescents to participate in a low…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Science Education
Rhana Hashemi; Erin A Vogel – Health Education Research, 2024
This study interviewed adolescents about their exposure to and perceptions of substance-related social media content and substance use prevention messages. Participants (analytic sample N = 30, age 14-18 years, in CA, USA, 40% male) were recruited from Instagram and Facebook for online semi-structured interviews. An interview transcript coding…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Media, Substance Abuse, Credibility
Filoteo, Montana; Singerhouse, Emily; Crespo-Carrión, Teodoro; Martin, Lauren – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
This article describes a novel virtual participatory action research (VPAR) approach to engaging youth who trade sex in Minnesota. The Minnesota Youth Sex Trading (MYST) Project switched to an entirely virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of an intergenerational team, Millennial and Generation Z researchers created a research-brand…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Participatory Research, Action Research
Nee, Rebecca C. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2019
Teaching information verification skills has become increasingly important in the current post-truth era. Through surveys and interviews with teenagers and young adults in the Middle East and United States, this study explores the changing patterns of social media use for news and actions they take to verify news stories online. Findings show…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Mass Media Use, Information Seeking
Harper, Robyn – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2018
Ever wonder why teenagers are so quick to adopt Instagram, Snapchat, and other forms of social media? Or take up X Games sports such as skateboarding and snowboarding? This Alliance for Excellent Education report explains how changes in the brain make adolescents more likely to be influenced by their peers, take risks, and even become disengaged…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Learning, Risk
Dezuanni, Michael; Reddan, Bronwyn; Rutherford, Leonie; Schoonens, Amy – Learning, Media and Technology, 2022
This article explores how selfies and shelfies on the digital platforms Instagram and TikTok contribute to the dynamics of intermediation for Australian teen readers by presenting two contrasting case studies. The first features Australian Bookstagrammer @BookBookOwl whose social media accounts feature aspirational content in which identity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Adolescents, Reading Materials
Picton, Irene; Clark, Christina – National Literacy Trust, 2021
This report outlines findings from questions included in the National Literacy Trust's Annual Literacy Survey in early 2021 to explore children and young people's literacy-related interactions in relation to video game playing. The survey reached 42,502 children and young people aged 8 to 18 between January and mid-March 2021, during the third…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Video Games, Literacy
Challenor, Liam; Foody, Mairéad; O'Higgins Norman, James – Pastoral Care in Education, 2018
Yellow is a social networking application for adolescents aged 13 and over. It has raised concerns with parents and educators because of its potential to link and create friendships with strangers. The current study involved a content analysis of 298 Yellow profiles to determine the age and gender of Yellow users, their sharing of personal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Media, Age, Sex
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