“Elementary School Goes Online – making sense of peer- to-peer and peer-to-content interactions with SNA”,

Damásio, M., Costa, Conceição (2012). “Elementary School Goes Online – making sense of peer- to-peer and peer-to-content interactions with SNA”, . Media Education Research Journal, (3).

Abstract: Abstract This paper presents an empirical study with children and discusses how Social Network Analysis (SNA) could be valuable in sensing children sociability with their peers as well their participation in a Web 2.0 platform. For one year long, participant observation took place under a “Social Education for Media program” aimed to four-grades of an elementary private school in Lisbon. The learning program made usage of a Web Site. Apart from establishing statistic information about individual accounts usage, such as: who posts first, who participates more on polls, who creates and publishes more content, we are particularly interested in the analysis of the relations among community “actors”- the social network. Under the present study, the findings related to group social cohesion and power, will be presented and SNA is discussed as a potential tool to evaluate children participation in their school community and its relation with children well-being and learning outcomes.