Social Media Use in University Studies

This book highlights the phenomenon of social media use in university studies based on its participants’ lived experience. It will appeal both to academics and practitioners interested in the human factors in the study environments saturated with technologies of social media. This book reveals multiple, sometimes contradictory dimensions of the phenomenon. The contradictions acquire a binary Janus-faced characteristic of uncertainty and paradox. Social media use in university studies also causes changes in experiencing time, space and relations.Teacher research participants sometimes perceive their time as stress or an additional load, which shows that social media use in university studies demands a new approach to teacher workload and its regulation. There is also the necessity of the sensitive democratic teacher—student pedagogical relationship. This book proves that the pedagogical relationship and human creativity essentially belong to the human living world and are still at the heart of the technological “cyborgian” existence.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė with her colleagues has published an edited book „Social Media in Adult Education“. Her scientific interests in the domain of social sciences, education science include social research methodology, modern education philosophical issues, creativity development in modern education system, etc.  In the domain of humanities her scientific interests include discourse analysis, discourse annotated corpora, professional English and legal English. The researcher is also actively engaged in second language teaching and learning research, linguistics and translation research. The researcher has published multiple scientific articles, participated as a presenter in various scientific conferences. She had internships in University of Cyprus, University of Latvia and University of Lisbon. She is also actively involved in coordinating and participating in international project research activities. Prof. Dr. Jolita Šliogerienė is a researcher and professor. Her scientific interests in the domain of social sciences, education science include linguadidactic parameters of autonomous studies, competence development in the institutions of higher education, assessment and recognition of non-formal and informal learning outcomes in university studies, second language teaching and learning. In the domain of humanities her scientific interests include discourse analysis, discourse annotated corpora, professional English and legal English. She is the author of numerous articles and regularly participates in conferences. She had internships in Goteborg Academy, Tallinn Technical University, La Rochelle University, and Institute of Education in London, Oxford College, and Middlesex University. She got an award for an active participation in Erasmus program and for strengthening the international dimension in higher education in Lithuania. Her biography is included into the national Lithuanian encyclopedia for her scientific achievements. She also prepared and participated in 10 international projects.