Abstract
Social networking sites (SNS) are becoming platforms for educational activities and thereby facilitating student–student and student–teacher academic and social interaction. Do these dynamics influ...
Highlights
In Nigeria, the use of social networking sites (SNS) is burgeoning among adolescents, especially those still in senior secondary school
The type of school moderated one indirect path in the mediated relationship between students’ use of internet for academic activities and their social-moral development through SNS-use (Process model 7). These findings suggest that it is SNS-use by adolescent students that engenders internet use for academic activities and this fosters their social-moral development, but this is more pronounced among male adolescent students and among those from public schools
The aim of this study was to demonstrate the moderating influence of gender and school type on the relationship between adolescent students’ use of internet for academic purposes and their socio-moral development that is being produced by their use of SNS
Summary
In Nigeria, the use of social networking sites (SNS) is burgeoning among adolescents, especially those still in senior secondary school. This trend has long been observed in technologically advanced nations of the globe. Internet use is a multifaceted construct because of its diverse interactive nature. SNS is a constituent or part of a collection of Web applications referred to as social media (Ahn, 2011) These websites (called Web 2.0 applications or tools) are fashioned to depend on the input of bulk collection of users instead of content being provided from a controlled-centralised source; it amasses and remixes content from several sources; and hugely connects users and content together (O’Reilly, 2007)
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