Increasing use of digital platforms for online teaching learning in COVID Era: Pros and cons
By Dr. Masha Sandeep (2020)
COVID-19 called for social distancing as a global pandemic. It has made it compulsory for people to sit indoors which may lead to mental stress. Therefore, online teaching can play an important role to keep people engaged and free of mental stress. In this pandemic situation, online teaching has emerged as the best solution. Teachers can use virtual classrooms to teach from home with all tools that are as effective as traditional online sessions. Pandemics often force the students to stay at home and obstruct the learning process for a long time...
By Dr. Simon Bründl and Dr. Thomas Hess (2016)
Some of today’s most popular social computing systems are online communities, relying on various types of user-generated content, e.g. YouTube or Instagram. Compared to such traditional on-demand content communities, the recent phenomenon of social live streaming platforms has introduced a fundamentally different way how user-generated content is contributed and consumed. Live streaming platforms enable their users to broadcast and watch video content in real time, while facilitating social interaction by providing complementary interaction features, e.g. chatrooms. As the attraction of user-generated content is crucial for the success of content communities, prior research has examined users’ motives for contributing to various types of on-demand platforms...
The role of wishful identification, emotional engagement, and parasocial relationships in repeated viewing of live-streaming games: A social cognitive theory perspective
By Joon Soo Lim, Min-Ji Choe, Jun Zhang, and Ghee-Young Noh (2020)
Grounded in Bandura’s (2001) social cognitive theory of mass communication and Giles' (2002) model of parasocial relationship (PSR) development, the current research examines how a viewer's wishful identification with an online video game streaming personality and emotional engagement with other viewers lead to behavioral loyalty through PSR with their favorite live-streamer. To test the proposed mediation model, the researchers conducted a survey using a representative sample drawn from a national panel of a professional survey firm in South Korea. Results of a mediation analysis employing structural equation modeling reveal that both wishful identification and emotional engagement have indirect effects on behavioral loyalty through PSR...
YouTube & young children: Research, concerns and new directions
By Burcu Izci, Ithel Özdemir, Bahçekapılı Tuğba, Latifa Alktebi, and Eda Bakir (2019)
Our understanding of the nature and extent of children’s engagement with this platform and its potential benefits and risks for children’s learning and development is limited. Young children (age 8 or younger), as well as older children and teenagers, frequently watch videos on YouTube. In this chapter we review the limited recent research examining young children’s use of YouTube and YouTube Kids. In addition, parental and expert concerns, children’s digital safety, the commodification of childhood, and new directions are addressed for future studies...