Productive Or Life-Wasting : The Increasingly-Connected And Socially Networked Students

• Main Authors: Curnow, Alexander, Kaur, Gursheena, Eban, Nomelyn, Kara, Esat, Mirlanov, Eldiiar
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2014
• Subjects: L Education (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/2114/1/productive%2Bor%2Blife%2Bwasting%2528%2Babstract%2529.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/2114/

The internet has only been with us since the 1980s (Leiner et al: 32) and public mobile phones for about 40 years (Smith 2009). In a single lifetime this is a ‘while’ but in terms of human history and in the longer-term scopes of social science this is a very short time. In the geological perspectiv...