All Outputs (4)

Challenges and Opportunities in Using Facebook to Build a Community for Students at a UK University (2014)
Book Chapter
Pearce, N. (2014). Challenges and Opportunities in Using Facebook to Build a Community for Students at a UK University. In M. Kent, & T. Leaver (Eds.), An education in Facebook? : higher education and the world's largest social network (13-22). Routledge

Facebook offers a low cost scalable platform for interacting with a huge audience. For universities this audience can encompass potential, current and past students, Facebook has emerged as a key space for informal and formal communication amongst st... Read More about Challenges and Opportunities in Using Facebook to Build a Community for Students at a UK University.

Clickolage: Encouraging the Student Bricoleur through Social Media (2012)
Journal Article
Pearce, N. (2012). Clickolage: Encouraging the Student Bricoleur through Social Media. Teaching Anthropology, 2(1), 14-21

Since his inception, the ‘bricoleur’ has travelled widely and been used for many purposes. This article explores how the concept of the bricoleur can help understand the ways in which students learn by using, adapting and linking social media in new... Read More about Clickolage: Encouraging the Student Bricoleur through Social Media.

Digital Scholarship Considered: How New Technologies Could Transform Academic Work (2011)
Journal Article
Pearce, N., Weller, M., Scanlon, E., & Kinsley, S. (2011). Digital Scholarship Considered: How New Technologies Could Transform Academic Work. Policy and practice in education (Regina), 16(1),

New digital and web-based technologies are spurring rapid and radical changes across all media industries. These newer models take advantage of the infinite reproducibility of digital media at zero marginal cost. There is an argument to be made that... Read More about Digital Scholarship Considered: How New Technologies Could Transform Academic Work.

A Study of Technology Adoption by Researchers : Web and e-science infrastructures to enhance research (2010)
Journal Article
Pearce, N. (2010). A Study of Technology Adoption by Researchers : Web and e-science infrastructures to enhance research. Information, Communication and Society, 13(8), 1191-1206. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691181003663601

This paper examines the recent development of an e-research agenda. e-Research is taken as the latest stage of the e-science programme, which - as developed in tandem with web 2.0 tools - has begun to be adopted by researchers. This paper discusses t... Read More about A Study of Technology Adoption by Researchers : Web and e-science infrastructures to enhance research.