Social media for sustainable engineering communication

This paper provides an overview of current research on social media applications, including user demographics and how social media websites define themselves. The paper also describes user activities using social media and suggests known strengths and weaknesses of social media, and concludes by outlining several recommendations for developing strong online communities.

[1]  Marc Rettig,et al.  Nobody reads documentation , 1991, CACM.

[2]  Paulette Stewart.  Facebook and Virtual Literature Circle Partnership in Building a Community of Readers. , 2009 .

[3]  M. Simonson.  Social Networking for Distance Education: Where is the Research? , 2007 .

[4]  Sharon Stoerger,et al.  The Digital Melting Pot: Bridging the Digital Native-immigrant Divide , 2009, First Monday.

[5]  Robert E. Ployhart,et al.  An Evaluation of Generic Teamwork Skills Training with Action Teams: Effects on Cognitive and Skill-Based Outcomes , 2005 .

[6]  Claudia Wallis,et al.  The multitasking generation. , 2006, Time.

[7]  James Boyle,et al.  Factors influencing the success of computer mediated communication (CMC) environments in university teaching: a review and case study , 2000, Comput. Educ..

[8]  Ulla K. Bunz,et al.  The rules of virtual groups: Trust, liking, and performance in computer-mediated communication , 2005 .

[9]  J. Reinsch,et al.  The Business Communicator as Presence Allocator: Multicommunicating, Equivocality, and Status at Work , 2007 .

[10]  N. Carr.  Is Google Making Us Stupid? , 2008, The Best Technology Writing 2009.

[11]  Catherine M. Burns,et al.  Ecological Interface Design , 2004 .

[12]  Bryan N. Alexander.  Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? , 2006 .

[13]  Eszter Hargittai,et al.  Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites , 2007, J. Comput. Mediat. Commun..

[14]  Danah Boyd,et al.  Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship , 2007, J. Comput. Mediat. Commun..

[15]  R. Hartshorne,et al.  Investigating faculty decisions to adopt Web 2.0 technologies: Theory and empirical tests , 2008, Internet High. Educ..

[16]  Ian Boston,et al.  Racing towards academic social networks , 2009 .

[17]  K. Young.  Internet Addiction , 2004 .

[18]  R. Mayer,et al.  Nine Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load in Multimedia Learning , 2003 .

[19]  Michael Zimmer,et al.  Preface: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 , 2008, First Monday.

[20]  Terry Anderson,et al.  Modes of Interaction in Distance Education: Recent Developments and Research Questions , 2003 .

[21]  Mary Madden,et al.  Reputation Management and Social Media: How People Monitor Their Identity and Search for Others Online , 2010 .

[22]  Julian Warner,et al.  Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies , 2006, J. Documentation.

[23]  John Sweller,et al.  The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning: The Split-Attention Principle in Multimedia Learning , 2005 .

[24]  James P. Purdy.  The Changing Space of Research: Web 2.0 and the Integration of Research and Writing Environments , 2010 .

[25]  Ben Light,et al.  Social networking and digital gaming media convergence: Classification and its consequences for appropriation , 2008, Inf. Syst. Frontiers.

[26]  Natasha Giardina,et al.  Wikidentities: Young people Collaborating on Virtual Identities in Social Network Sites , 2009, First Monday.

[27]  John Millar Carroll.  The Nurnberg Funnel: Designing Minimalist Instruction for Practical Computer Skill , 1990 .

[28]  Kristin L. Arola.  The Design of Web 2.0: The Rise of the Template, The Fall of Design , 2010 .

[29]  Cheri J. Simonds,et al.  I'll See You On “Facebook”: The Effects of Computer-Mediated Teacher Self-Disclosure on Student Motivation, Affective Learning, and Classroom Climate , 2007 .

[30]  H. Gardner,et al.  Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences , 1983 .

[31]  Maria Tess Shier.  The Way Technology Changes How We Do What We Do , 2005 .

[32]  Richard Mayer,et al.  Multimedia Learning , 2001, Visible Learning Guide to Student Achievement.

[33]  U. Foehr.  MEDIA MULTITASKING AMONG AMERICAN YOUTH: PREVALENCE, PREDICTORS AND PAIRINGS , 2006 .

[34]  Ingrid Mulder,et al.  An information overload study: using design methods for understanding , 2006, OZCHI.

[35]  Lisa Dawley,et al.  Social network knowledge construction: emerging virtual world pedagogy , 2009 .

[36]  Derek E. Baird,et al.  Neomillennial User Experience Design Strategies: Utilizing Social Networking Media to Support “Always on” Learning Styles , 2005 .

[37]  Amanda Lenhart,et al.  Adults and social network websites , 2009 .

[38]  John Thompson,et al.  Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students , 2007 .

[39]  M. Prensky.  Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants , 2001 .

[40]  Matt Barton,et al.  Paradox and Promise: MySpace, Facebook, and the Sociopolitics of Social Networking in the Writing Classroom , 2010 .

[41]  Rebecca Wilson Lundin,et al.  Teaching with Wikis: Toward a Networked Pedagogy , 2008 .

[42]  Patricia G. Lange.  Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube , 2007, J. Comput. Mediat. Commun..

[43]  Starr Roxanne Hiltz,et al.  Becoming a Virtual Professor: Pedagogical Roles and Asynchronous Learning Networks , 2002, J. Manag. Inf. Syst..

[44]  Kevin R. Parker,et al.  Wiki as a Teaching Tool , 2007 .

[45]  Henry Jenkins.  Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century , 2006 .