Facebook as learning platform: Argumentation superhighway or dead-end street?

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Highlights:

• Most SNSs – including Facebook – are more a broadcast tool than a discussion tool.

• Groups of Facebook users (i.e., friends) tend to confirm rather than discuss and/or argue.

• Flat-structured discussions such as what Facebook affords impede discussion and argumentation.

• Most SNSs – including Facebook – are not well-suited for knowledge construction via discussion and argumentation.

摘要

•Most SNSs – including Facebook – are more a broadcast tool than a discussion tool.•Groups of Facebook users (i.e., friends) tend to confirm rather than discuss and/or argue.•Flat-structured discussions such as what Facebook affords impede discussion and argumentation.•Most SNSs – including Facebook – are not well-suited for knowledge construction via discussion and argumentation.

论文关键词:Facebook,Argumentation,Discussion,Learning,Social Network Sites

论文评审过程:Received 29 December 2014, Revised 27 February 2015, Accepted 2 March 2015, Available online 26 March 2015, Version of Record 11 September 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.011