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Does the use of WhatsApp effect satisfaction and engagement levels for students in tertiary education
(2017)
The ability to use digital technology effectively and reflectively can transform the student learning experience helping them become more engaged thinkers (Butler, Leahy, Shiel & Cosgrove, 2013). To investigate the vision ...
Ethical issues in online therapy: Assessing compliance with best practice in Ireland and the United Kingdom
(2017)
Online therapy has been an accepted treatment option for mental health professionals and their clients for almost 20 years and offers many advantages. Despite evidence of its efficacy, the adoption rate for online therapy ...
Analysing the relationship between personality traits and use of emoji in the workplace
(2017)
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality, age and gender and the use of emoji in the workplace. To date, there is a gap in knowledge of how emoji are used in professional communication. ...
Formal and informal learning and first-year psychology students’ development of scientific thinking: a two-wave panel study
(Frontiers, 2017)
Scientific thinking is a predicate for scientific inquiry, and thus important to develop early in psychology students as potential future researchers. The present research is aimed at fathoming the contributions of formal ...
Development of Open Source tools for creative and commercial exploitation of spatial audio
(2017)
This research deals with Binaural audio, and the technology behind this. Binaural processing aims to give listeners the same experience on a set of headphones that they get in the real world, sounds can be perceived from ...
Book review: self and social identity in educational contexts
(Frontiers, 2017)
Books that are insightful, thoughtful provoking, and written in a way that is accessible to multiple reader types are hard to come by; this, we believe, is one of them. Mavor, Platow, and Bizumic (2017) have provided us ...
The self-control of smartphone use: Training young adults to break the habit
(Institute of Art, Design and Technology, 2017)
Smartphone penetration is continuing to grow worldwide with these gadgets offering many benefits to users. However, negative effects of too much ‘screen time’ are beginning to be documented, particularly among younger ...
Employer branding: Examining the relationship between employers’ attractiveness attributes and application intentions of online jobseekers
(2017)
Employer branding has become an increasingly important factor shaping organisations' recruitment strategies in the digital age. This research study explores the relationship between perceived attractiveness attributes of ...
The impact of digital and social media on the news consumption and democratic engagement of 25 to 35 year olds
(2017)
In recent years, changing media consumption patterns, especially the increased use of interactive media, has fuelled optimism about the enhanced possibilities for democratic participation and active citizenship. For the ...
“Seeing is believing!” Confirmation bias and engagement with fake news on Facebook
(2017)
Recent events around the world such as the US presidential election or the Brexit referendum have highlighted that the sharing of fake new stories on social media has become an important issue. There is little research ...