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Surfing on the Wearable Tech: challenges for social participation
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, , University of Navarra, Spain

EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Tampere, Finland ISBN 978-1-939797-08-7 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

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It is a fact that wearable technologies are ubiquitous among young and not-so-young citizens. These gadgets provide the connection to apps what are characterized as having a great potential for fostering socialization and the sense of belonging to a community; nevertheless, there exist contrary research results concerning whether or not they are influencing the development of greater civic involvement in a real way. In this paper we analyze this question in the light of the educational challenges that are presented by social networks as promoters of social participation.

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Lara, S. & Naval, C. (2014). Surfing on the Wearable Tech: challenges for social participation. In J. Viteli & M. Leikomaa (Eds.), Proceedings of EdMedia 2014--World Conference on Educational Media and Technology (pp. 2070-2075). Tampere, Finland: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved December 6, 2019 from .

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