Book Review of Sørensen (2009)
Sørensen, Estrid (2009). The materiality of learning: Technology and knowledge in educational practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. The author of this book, Estrid Sørensen, is a Research Associate at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is also an Associate Professor at the School of Education at Aarhus University in Demark. Sørensen explores critical concepts that … Read more
2010 AACE-EdMedia Presentations
Two of my papers (at workplace) recently got accepted by the 2010 AACE-EdMedia – World
Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. This year the conference will be held in Toronto. And this summer we will try the option of virtual presentation (in Second Life?) offered by the conference!
2010 Youth Trend Report: China
mobileYouth has partnered with enovate which just opened a new office in Shanghai, in developing the latest 2010 Global Youth Trends Report. As reported, by 2015 there will be 500 million people under age 30 in China–roughly the population of the entire European Union. The report is written based on data collected from the two … Read more
Pew Internet Findings on Today’s Participatory News Consumers
The latest Pew Internet Report Understanding the Participatory News Consumer released interesting findings about the “participatory culture” of internet news consumers today. The study is based on survey data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research International between December 28, 2009 and January 19, 2010, among a sample of 2,259 adults, 18 and older. … Read more
Recent Study Shows How Blogging Aids Students’ Social and Cognitive Development
The January issue of the Journal of Adolescent Research has two interesting articles related to social media, including one that focuses on how normative developmental processes shape 124 individuals’ blogging practices on LiveJournal, DeadJournal, Xanga, Open Diary, MySpace, and Friendster, during adolescence and emerging adulthood. Interestingly, the findings indicate that most young persons (15-19) write … Read more
“The Social Technographic Ladder” in the U.S.
Forrester Research Inc.’s recent survey to 10,112 U.S. web users aging 18 to 88 in November 2009 produced an interesting report about types of people using social media tools online in the U.S. (see below). One in every three online Americans is what Forrester calls a “conversationalist,” someone who updates her/his status on social networking … Read more
The Fever of Twitter Starts to Fade?
As reported by Mashable, Twitter’s user number has dropped down to 23.6 million U.S. unique visitors, a loss of nearly 24 percent, since its peak at 29.2 million users in July, 2009. This serious decrease poses a big contrast of its 752 percent increase in 2008 (as given in a report by Quantcast, a web … Read more
Does a class divide exist in online social networks?
Latest research suggests yes to the above question asked by CNN. Check out this article regarding the specific statistics. Almost 23 percent of Facebook users earn more than $100,000 a year, compared to slightly more than 16 percent of MySpace users. 37 percent of MySpace members earn less than $50,000 annually, compared with about 28 … Read more
