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Title
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Flemish high school students' everyday use of communication technologies for schoolwork-related communication
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Abstract
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| By combining network data from a third grade in a Flemish high school (1415-year olds, N = 147) with interview data obtained from eighteen of the pupils, more insight is provided into high school students' everyday use of communication technologies (CT) for school-related communication. The study departs from an affordances of technology perspective, taking both technological characteristics of CT and social context factors into account for explaining CT use. Each technology provided a specific combination of affordances: SMS afforded information acquirement, and served as a communication hub; instant messaging afforded information acquirement, discussing groupwork and exchanging documents and E-mail afforded exchanging documents and discussing groupwork. The telephone was not frequently used for communication about school. The findings could not be explained by solely looking at technological characteristics: they needed to be interpreted (1) in the context of teens' overall use of CT and (2) by taking social context factors into account. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of children and media. - Colchester
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Publication
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Colchester
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2012
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ISSN
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1748-2798
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1748-2801
[online]
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Volume/pages
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6
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(2012)
, p. 367-383
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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