Surfing on the wearable tech: challenges for social participation

Lara, S. (Sonia); Naval, C. (Concepción)

Authors:

Lara, S. (Sonia)

Naval, C. (Concepción)

Keywords:

Educational challenges
Social networks
Socialization

Issue Date:

2014

Publisher:

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

Publisher Version:

http://www.editlib.org/p/147758/

ISSN:

978-1-939797-08-7

Citation:

Lara, S; Naval. C. (2014) Surfing on the wearable tech: challenges for social participation In Jan Herrington, Jarmo Viteli and Marianna Leikomaa (Eds.) World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications Vol. 2014, No. 1 (pp. 2070–2075)

Abstract

It is a fact that wearable technologies are ubiquitous among young and not-so-young citizens. These gadgets provide the connection to apps what are characterized as having a great potential for fostering socialization and the sense of belonging to a community; nevertheless, there exist contrary research results concerning whether or not they are influencing the development of greater civic involvement in a real way. In this paper we analyze this question in the light of the educational challenges that are presented by social networks as promoters of social participation.

URI:

https://hdl.handle.net/10171/36640

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