Chapter 48Integrating Mobile Learning with Social Media

Adam Bockler

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The term “mobile social media” refers to social media used on a mobile device. Because of the new capabilities of smart phones and tablets, mobile social media is somewhat different from traditional social media, which, as Tom Standage (2013), in his book Writing On the Wall: Social Media the First 2,000 Years, has pointed out, has been around for at least two millennia. Mobile social media has depended on the development of smart phones in the late 1990s and the arrival of tablet computers starting in 2010. It differs from social learning on desktop computers in that it ...

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