Internet usage among Arab adolescents: preliminary findings

Shen, Kathy Ning; Shakir, Maha

doi:10.1504/ijlsm.2012.045420

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“…Some impediments may exist to offering collaborative work through the internet, if such an experience involves interacting with the opposite sex. While research by Shen and Shakir (2009) has shown evidence that access to the Internet has an impact on identity development, they comment that some female students expressed concern about interacting with male students in an online discussion (p. 6).…”

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“…For UAE females, using ICT to communicate outside their traditional boundaries may create conflict (Shen & Shakir, 2009;Vodanovich et al, 2010). Shakir et al (2008) point out that it is common practice for families to restrict females from having unmonitored contact with the outside world, and any transgression is viewed as "inappropriate and would negatively affect the reputation of the daughter, sister, or wife as well as her family" (p. 8).…”

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The digital divide and single-gender undergraduate education in the UAE

Doiron

2012

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives

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The digital divide and single-gender undergraduate education in the UAE

Doiron

2012

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives

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“…Young Arabs are among other students who use email for schoolwork. In their study, Shen and Shakir (2012) reveals that email usage was the second top online activity used for communication or asking for information. In a more recent study conducted on IAU female students, Albawardi (2017) found that, unlike the use of other digital entertaining modes of communication, young female English students use emails less often, only for exchanging schoolwork and to ask for information from their instructors.…”

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Politeness in an Educational Context

Albawardi

Alqahtani²

2022

Acad. J. Interdiscip. Stud.

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Human daily social interaction is anchored in interpersonal discourse, and linguistic politeness is thus vital to our everyday language including face-to-face and computer-mediated communication. Politeness conventions in emails are not being taught to students and seem to be a work-in-progress. In a power-asymmetrical context such as student-teacher interaction, requests are pragmatically demanding, complex, and inherently face-threatening acts (Brown & Levinson, 1987). Little research has been conducted on face-saving and politeness in requests produced by a sufficient number of participants. This paper attempts to investigate requestive emails written in English by Saudi students directed to instructors belonging to the same Saudi academic institution. The study attempts to examine how English language female students employ linguistic politeness in composing their requestive emails. In more detail, it aims to examine English language students’ use of email openings and closings and uncover the different devices employed in both, including address term’s presence/absence and formality/informality. Results show that most students (97%) in the current data opt for including an opening pre-request, while only 72.5% of their emails include a closing. Received: 31 August 2022 / Accepted: 12 October 2022 / Published: 5 November 2022

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“…These information-seeking activities can also construct the youth generation's social and cognitive capacities in a political context. Therefore, studies on internet-oriented search engine user behaviour have drawn many researchers' recognition in line with its fundamental role as a tool for attaining information (Shen & Shakir, 2009). In the meantime, an increase in the accessible information on the web also forms informationseeking behaviour (Natarajan, 2012).…”

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Social Media, Youths and Political Participation in Malaysia: A Review of Literature

Abdullah¹,

Hassan²,

Ahmad³

et al. 2021

IJARBSS

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In today's modern world, political knowledge is not only conveyed or sought through traditional methods such as political rallies but also via social media such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. The search for political information through social media has now become a global phenomenon. In recent years, the use of social media among youths in Malaysia has increased significantly. It is, thus, prudent to explore the use of social media platforms amongst youths in Malaysian. Therefore, this paper offers a review of studies on youth participation in politics via social media, particularly in the Malaysian context. The paper provides an overview of how Malaysian youths seek political information through social media and reviews recent information related to online resources in the political context. It was envisaged that this paper could advance our understanding of the trend and level of youth participation in politics via social media, particularly in Malaysia. Additionally, this review could provide useful information on the online dissemination and consumption of political information.

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Internet usage among Arab adolescents: preliminary findings

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

The digital divide and single-gender undergraduate education in the UAE

The digital divide and single-gender undergraduate education in the UAE

Politeness in an Educational Context

Social Media, Youths and Political Participation in Malaysia: A Review of Literature

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