College students' academic motivation, media engagement and fear of missing out

D Alt - Computers in human behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
The concerns about the consequences of mental problems related to use of social media
among university students have recently raised consciousness about a relatively new …

Facebook® and academic performance

PA Kirschner, AC Karpinski - Computers in human behavior, 2010 - Elsevier
There is much talk of a change in modern youth–often referred to as digital natives or Homo
Zappiens–with respect to their ability to simultaneously process multiple channels of …

Online and offline social networks: Use of social networking sites by emerging adults

K Subrahmanyam, SM Reich, N Waechter… - Journal of applied …, 2008 - Elsevier
Social networking sites (eg, MySpace and Facebook) are popular online communication
forms among adolescents and emerging adults. Yet little is known about young people's …

Casual social games as serious games: The psychology of gamification in undergraduate education and employee training

RN Landers, RC Callan - Serious games and edutainment applications, 2011 - Springer
Gameification (or, gamification) is becoming an increasingly popular technique to motivate
learners, yet little theory or empirical evidence is available to support its use. In the present …

Students' wellbeing, fear of missing out, and social media engagement for leisure in higher education learning environments

D Alt - Current Psychology, 2018 - Springer
This study was aimed at assessing the assumption that maladjustment to college could lead
some toward excessive social media engagement for leisure during class. Moreover, the …

[PDF][PDF] Have you Facebooked Astin lately? Using technology to increase student involvement

G Heiberger, R Harper - New directions for student services, 2008 - cyber.harvard.edu
Enter a college student union, and you will see students standing in line for their favorite
lattes, meeting with friends, laughing about last night's Colbert Report, promoting campus …

Effective social media marketing strategy: Facebook as an opportunity for universities

C Assimakopoulos, I Antoniadis, OG Kayas… - International Journal of …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the usage of university Facebook (FB)
groups and sites by undergraduate students seeking information about their departments …

College students' perceptions of intimate partner cyber harassment

LA Melander - Cyberpsychology, behavior, and social networking, 2010 - liebertpub.com
Little is known about cyber harassment in general, and in order to understand more about
online harassment among intimate partners, it is important to examine people's perceptions …

A case study of Israeli higher-education institutes sharing scholarly information with the community via social networks

A Forkosh-Baruch, A Hershkovitz - The internet and higher education, 2012 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to empirically examine cases in which Social Networking Sites
(SNS) are being utilized for scholarly purposes by higher-education institutes in Israel. The …

The benefits of living on campus: Do residence halls provide distinctive environments of engagement?

PA Graham, SS Hurtado… - Journal of Student Affairs …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The changing landscape of on-and off-campus undergraduate residential options underline
the need to reexamine the impact of on-campus living. Using multi-institutional survey data …