On the importance of social network sites in the transitions which characterize ‘emerging adulthood’
Modern-day economic and socio-cultural developments require people to be ever more specialized and mobile in their educational and professional choices. This is particularly relevant for ‘emerging adults’, that is to say, those who find themselves at that stage of life when their scholastic or unive...
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European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)
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| description | Modern-day economic and socio-cultural developments require people to be ever more specialized and mobile in their educational and professional choices. This is particularly relevant for ‘emerging adults’, that is to say, those who find themselves at that stage of life when their scholastic or university education ends, and they begin to make choices regarding their professional working life. Transitions between different activity systems, and changes of residence which they entail, make ‘emerging adulthood’ a particularly unstable period in which young people continually dissolve, create and recreate relationship networks of varying degrees of importance which are able to support them through these changes. Beginning with empirical evidence and theoretical starting points typical of the psychology of education and development, this contribution proposes a theoretical reflection which attempts to analyze the efficacy of Social Network Sites in facilitating and supporting emerging adults during their education and vocational training and the important transitions which they have to face as they develop. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-70b7419b00174ff880617da146ef6a772022-12-21T19:43:31ZengEuropean Alliance for Innovation (EAI)EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Learning2032-92532011-09-011111110.4108/icst.trans.eeel.2011.e4On the importance of social network sites in the transitions which characterize ‘emerging adulthood’Gianluca Frozzi0Elvis Mazzoni1S.E.Fo.R.A. Lab, Faculty of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, Piazza A. Moro, 90, 47521 Cesena (FC), Italy; gianluca.frozzi@gmail.comS.E.Fo.R.A. Lab, Faculty of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, Piazza A. Moro, 90, 47521 Cesena (FC), ItalyModern-day economic and socio-cultural developments require people to be ever more specialized and mobile in their educational and professional choices. This is particularly relevant for ‘emerging adults’, that is to say, those who find themselves at that stage of life when their scholastic or university education ends, and they begin to make choices regarding their professional working life. Transitions between different activity systems, and changes of residence which they entail, make ‘emerging adulthood’ a particularly unstable period in which young people continually dissolve, create and recreate relationship networks of varying degrees of importance which are able to support them through these changes. Beginning with empirical evidence and theoretical starting points typical of the psychology of education and development, this contribution proposes a theoretical reflection which attempts to analyze the efficacy of Social Network Sites in facilitating and supporting emerging adults during their education and vocational training and the important transitions which they have to face as they develop.http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/icst.trans.eeel.2011.e4activity systemsemerging adulthoodsocial capitalsocial network sitestransitions |
| spellingShingle | Gianluca Frozzi Elvis Mazzoni On the importance of social network sites in the transitions which characterize ‘emerging adulthood’ EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Learning activity systems emerging adulthood social capital social network sites transitions |
| title | On the importance of social network sites in the transitions which characterize ‘emerging adulthood’ |
| title_full | On the importance of social network sites in the transitions which characterize ‘emerging adulthood’ |
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| title_full_unstemmed | On the importance of social network sites in the transitions which characterize ‘emerging adulthood’ |
| title_short | On the importance of social network sites in the transitions which characterize ‘emerging adulthood’ |
| title_sort | on the importance of social network sites in the transitions which characterize emerging adulthood |
| topic | activity systems emerging adulthood social capital social network sites transitions |
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