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In the modern digital age, most citizens of developed countries will have had some degree of exposure to social media. The dramatic range of forms and functions of these omnipresent technologies makes it difficult to define what social media networks actually are despite the widespread nature of their use. Formally, social media networks can be described as a digital environment where people can gather, critique and share digital media items such as data, information, images and video recordings across established online networks (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010). Under this definition, social media sites have been described as the very embodiment of Web 2.0 (the current form of the World Wide Web), where ideas can be dynamically shared, mixed, debated and reviewed in a range of meaningful ways (O’Reilly & Battelle, 2009).
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McDonald, R., Danino, N. (2015). Social Media in Education and the Community. In: Brewer, G., Hogarth, R. (eds) Creative Education, Teaching and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402141_7
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