Blended learning and instructional scaffolding in a Media Law course
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw I’m thoroughly enjoying a revitalised enthusiasm for my media law teaching thanks to the Blended Learning team at Griffith University. I’ve recently been a student in...
View ArticleIf #cyberbullying is up, why is youth #suicide down?
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Extracted from my public lecture 'Social Media - Risks and Rewards'] Administrators and parents are indeed concerned about social media – partly because the little...
View ArticleSocial media risk and literacy in the new Australian civics curriculum
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Extracted from my public lecture 'Social Media - Risks and Rewards'] At the very least an important foundational literacy one must have to empower one to assess social...
View ArticleSchools, social media and cyberbullying
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Extracted from my public lecture 'Social Media - Risks and Rewards'] We hear a great deal about the downside of social media use in schools. There have been well...
View ArticleSocial media and drugs, alcohol and mental illness just don’t mix
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Extracted from my public lecture 'Social Media - Risks and Rewards'] Researchers internationally are attempting to fathom the crucial question of why people –...
View ArticleMySpace’s 10th anniversary: some social media stats
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Extracted from my public lecture 'Social Media - Risks and Rewards'] Social media and the broader devices and applications associated with Web 2.0 have become part of...
View ArticleSocial media risks and rewards – @journlaw’s public lecture
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Professor of Journalism and Social Media, Griffith University, Australia] Public lecture presented August 27, 2013 at the Ship Inn Function Room, South Bank, as part...
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