Visitors and Residents: Mapping Student Attitudes to Academic Use of Social Networks

Fiona Wright; David White; Tony Hirst; Alan Cann

Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 39, No. 1 (2014) pp. 126–141

The Visitors and Residents model of internet use suggests a continuum of modes of engagement with the online world, ranging from tool use to social spaces. In this paper, we examine evidence derived from a large cohort of students to assess whether...