Share Paper: Help from Friends: Facebook’s Potential for Adolescents’ Academic Help-seeking

  1. Christine Greenhow, Michigan State University, United States
  2. Amy Chapman, Michigan State University, United States
  3. Ming Lei, Michigan State University, United States
Monday, March 6 3:20-3:40 PM Capitol B

Abstract: Social network sites can provide effective avenues for information-seeking due in part to their unique social and technical aspects This study examined the impact of an educational social media application located on the global social network site, Facebook, on adolescents' academic help-seeking The Facebook application, called College Connect (CC), maps users' networks of Facebook Friends to show which of those friends have college-related knowledge in their profile Our results suggest that CC offered some benefits over Facebook generally and over college websites for high school students, especially those from low-income families, seeking help with the college-going process We discuss how ...