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Dataset for University of Southampton Doctoral Thesis: The conceptualisation of social media by young novice users
No full textThis is the Data supporting the PhD thesis entitled: The conceptualisation of social media by young novice users: Implications for the early secondary school curriculum. Two sets of data are available. Set A Pupil Survey Data and Set B Child Transcript Data</span
The conceptualisation of social media by young novice users: implications for the early secondary school curriculum
No full textIn the United Kingdom, over 70% of teenagers actively use at least one social media account. The number and variety of platforms available have increased rapidly since 2006 when Facebook first encouraged public access to their social network. While social media companies set the minimum age for holding an account at thirteen years: currently a quarter of UK children have a profile by their eleventh birthday.What children understand about social media arises from a range of influences including home, school, their peer group as well as personal experience. These all contribute to their understanding of the affordances and conceptualisation of social media. Since many parents feel ill-equipped to support or guide their children in using social media, schools are consequently at the forefront of educating pupils about these platforms.The English National Curriculum is inclined towards problematising rather than promoting the affordances of online technologies; requiring schools to support young people to develop “safe, respectful and responsible” approaches when online. This research, therefore, seeks to determine whether pupils have a suitable conceptual understanding of social media to allow them to act safely and flourish when online.The study reviews the extent to which schools respond to statutory guidance from the Department for Education and other influential bodies. Discourse analysis of secondary school policies and Key Stage 3 curriculum materials demonstrate that essential government priorities are reflected in the curriculum. A further line of enquiry reviews Ofsted secondary school inspection reports. Here, where reports explicitly comment on pupil understanding of social media, they confirm that pupils know how to keep themselves safe. This overwhelming endorsement of school effectiveness belies a wider reality where many children report struggling over their use of social media.To assess the conceptualisation of social media the study accesses the opinions and voices of pupils aged 11-14, providing them with an opportunity to discuss how they conceptualise social media. A survey was completed by pupils from two schools (n=468) which was subsequently supplemented with interviews with children (n=18) who assisted in interpreting the survey data. This work was undertaken to determine the extent to which pupils’ conceptualisation of social media is supported by National Curriculum priorities and the teaching received in secondary schools.The study concludes that novice users of social media not only have sound knowledge of the names of the most common and popular platforms but may also hold a broader and more fluid understanding of what constitutes social media than teachers might expect. The study also concludes that awareness of pupils’ broader definitional boundaries of social media will support teachers needing to help young people stay safe when online. A further conclusion is that there is an insufficient emphasis in schools about how social media may be used beneficially by children.<br/
Participatory Research with Museum Practitioners: A reflection on the process
No full textThis research explores the process of a Participatory Research (PR) project that brought together university researchers with museum practitioners to create reflective tools that can be used to better understand real practical challenges. This project followed Bourke’s (2009) definition of PR, viewing the process as a collaborative endeavour between researchers and practitioners in all steps of the way including project planning, research design, data collection and analysis, and distribution and application of research findings. In this project, we ran three main workshops with small group meetings in between, which were audio and video recorded and subsequently transcribed. These were then analysed to capture the PR process using James and Shaw’s (2023) Heuristic Framework as our analytical framework while using deductive and inductive techniques. Our analysis focused on understanding the dynamics between researchers and practitioners in this PR project in order to better understand how to conduct PR projects in this context. Our analysis offers a refined model that can be adapted and used with museum practitioners while identifying areas that need further attention in the process of PR. We included an important phase of reflection, and we offer recommendations for those who would like to take a PR approach in their research
“It was just amazing!” unstructured interactions following a planetarium and science shows
No full textVisits to informal learning environments such as science centers can enhance curiosity and understanding of scientific concepts. These environments offer activities like science and planetarium shows to engage their audiences. One way to understand visitors’ experiences in these environments is to investigate interactions. Previous research primarily focused on structured interactions such as guided tours, leaving the exploration of spontaneous, unstructured interactions understudied. In this research, museum practitioners audio-recorded unstructured interactions following science and planetarium shows during free-choice visits to a science center. Thematic analysis showed that although interaction time was short, it was positive and inquisitive in nature. Most questions were related to the content of the show and asked by children, with emotional reactions more prominent after the planetarium show. This exploratory pilot research adds to the body of knowledge on unstructured interactions between visitors and science center staff members, contributing to the understanding of effective science communication.</p
Socioscientific inquiry-based learning for climate change education: an expert teacher’s video-elicited reflections on instructional decision-making
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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