Using communities of practice to study malaysian youths'use of new media

The integration of new media technologies into the school curriculum continues to be an important goal for Malaysia. However, despite continuous efforts to integrate digital technologies in schools, students’ use of the media within the formal school context continues to be very limited. Malaysian s...

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Main Author: Nurzali Ismail
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysian 2013
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6423/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6423/1/V29_1_99-112.pdf
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description The integration of new media technologies into the school curriculum continues to be an important goal for Malaysia. However, despite continuous efforts to integrate digital technologies in schools, students’ use of the media within the formal school context continues to be very limited. Malaysian students’ use of digital technologies out of school also remains unclear. This is due to lack of studies being conducted in this area. Thus, this paper argues that an in-depthstudyshould be conducted during school and out of school in order to understand how Malaysian youths use digital media.Such a study can be carried out by using communities of practice (COP) theoretical perspective. COP enables thoroughanalysis to be conducted pertaining to young people’s technological practices, the communities that they belong to and how practices move and influence one another across the boundary of during school and out of school communities.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:64232016-12-14T06:41:07Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6423/ Using communities of practice to study malaysian youths'use of new media Nurzali Ismail, The integration of new media technologies into the school curriculum continues to be an important goal for Malaysia. However, despite continuous efforts to integrate digital technologies in schools, students’ use of the media within the formal school context continues to be very limited. Malaysian students’ use of digital technologies out of school also remains unclear. This is due to lack of studies being conducted in this area. Thus, this paper argues that an in-depthstudyshould be conducted during school and out of school in order to understand how Malaysian youths use digital media.Such a study can be carried out by using communities of practice (COP) theoretical perspective. COP enables thoroughanalysis to be conducted pertaining to young people’s technological practices, the communities that they belong to and how practices move and influence one another across the boundary of during school and out of school communities. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysian 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6423/1/V29_1_99-112.pdf Nurzali Ismail, (2013) Using communities of practice to study malaysian youths'use of new media. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 29 (1). pp. 99-112. ISSN 0128-1496 http://www.ukm.my/jkom/
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Using communities of practice to study malaysian youths'use of new media
title Using communities of practice to study malaysian youths'use of new media
title_full Using communities of practice to study malaysian youths'use of new media
title_fullStr Using communities of practice to study malaysian youths'use of new media
title_full_unstemmed Using communities of practice to study malaysian youths'use of new media
title_short Using communities of practice to study malaysian youths'use of new media
title_sort using communities of practice to study malaysian youths'use of new media
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6423/
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http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6423/1/V29_1_99-112.pdf