A study of the relationship between teacher-student informal interaction via Facebook and teacher –student relationship in higher education

• Main Authors: GENG, WAN-RUNG, 耿婉容
• Other Authors: WAN, SONG-IN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cfvs24

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 傳播學系電訊傳播研究所 === 105 === Facebook has become the most popular social media in higher education. More and more faculty members start to use Facebook with the identity of “teacher”. Facebook has become the newest informal interactive media between the students and the faculty. The interactive behavior between the students and the faculty can facilitate the exchange of the ideas, values, and feelings, and stabilize teacher-student relationship. This study focuses mainly on students’ point of view to examine the effects of student-faculty interaction and faculty-student interaction via facebook, and the consequences on teacher-student relationship (the expressive of teacher-student relationship and the instrumental of teacher-student relationship). After analyzing the survey data (n=301) and interview responses, the results verify that the teacher-student informal interaction (the content of interaction, and the type of interaction) via Facebook could positively affect the teacher-student relationship. The results show that student-teacher interaction on course issue and the commenting behavior could both facilitate the expressive ties and the instrumental ties of teacher-student relationship. Finally, this study found that “teacher-student’’ and “student-teacher’’ interactive behavior have notable differences.