Paper Info
Title
Group awareness support and argumentation scripts for individual preparation of arguments in Facebook.
Abstract
This study investigates how group awareness support and argumentation scripts influence learning in social networking sites like Facebook, which may be conducive to informal learning, but often lacks argumentative quality. Supporting participants' group awareness about the visibility of the arguments they construct and about prospective future debate with peers in order to promote argument quality may be particularly suited for learning in Social Networking Sites. Additional argumentation scripts may directly foster argumentative knowledge construction. In a 2 × 2 study (N = 81), we isolated and investigated the effects of group awareness support and argumentation scripts during individual preparation in a Facebook app on domain and argumentative knowledge. Our results reveal that group awareness support of upcoming argumentative processes can be counterproductive for learning in Social Networking Sites. Argumentation scripts in Facebook may remedy possible negative effects of such awareness. Process analysis showed that group awareness support promotes individual argument elaboration but reduces broad analysis of the domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.compedu.2014.03.012
Computers & Education
Keywords
Field
DocType
Facebook,Group awareness support,Argumentation scripts,Argumentative knowledge construction
Social psychology,Informal learning,Argumentative,Social network,Group awareness,Argumentation theory,Knowledge management,Psychology,Process analysis,Elaboration,Scripting language
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
76
0360-1315
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.58
21
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dimitra Tsovaltzi17211.06
Thomas Puhl2192.85
Raluca Judele3151.41
Armin Weinberger485977.86