Browsing by Author "Wikström, Heikki"

Finnish children spend lots of time in social media. At the same time schools are modernizing their tuition by acquiring and using different technological devices and using different media applications. There are studies about how social media can be made use of in schools, but the way school is manifested in social media by children has not been studied a lot. Therefore the aim of this study is to find out how the children themselves use social media and how school is manifested in social media by children of different age. The method for this study was descriptive literature review. Different databases concerning mainly behavioral and educational sciences were used to conduct the study. The research material was Finnish and foreign literature, studies and other publications. Different databases concerning. In addition to theoretical literature different studies about Finnish children and their habits of using internet and social media were used. Because the topic has been discussed a lot in Finnish media during the last few years, some news regarding social media, school and children were also used. The results of this study showed that social media plays a big part in the lives of children and adolescents of different ages. They use social media mainly for keeping touch with their friends, family and relatives, but also publish photos, videos and different texts. The school is manifested in this material in different ways. It’s discussed in private conversations but also some school-related vlogs are published.