Why waste your time on Facebook? : a temporal analysis of first-year undergraduate students and transition in UK Higher Education

In this thesis I document a study of first-year undergraduate students' uses of Facebook to negotiate their transition into their first year at a UK university. I did this through a mixed method two-phase approach of large-scale questionnaires and a longitudinal connective ethnography, which to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stirling, Eve
Other Authors: Davies, Julia
Published: University of Sheffield 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605524