Children are becoming dependent on social network sites (SNS) to gratify their social needs. They are increasingly becoming users of SNS and emerging as an important user group. Despite much literature on children, not much is known about the social behaviour of the children when they gain access to SNS. It is due to limited access to children due to policy, legal or ethical reasons. This research identified children social behaviour to understand how they behave in SNS. Subsequent to this, a child persona was modelled to represent children as a social networker. The creation of persona involved three steps, including collecting user data, segmenting data into groups and transferring data into persona. In user research, qualitative approach was carried out through self-reporting method such as cultural probes and interviews. It involved seven children between the ages of 10-12 years old. The initial phase in user research involved designing children's probes for capturing social behavi.....

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Social media has gained m popularity as a social communication tool and become  increasingly   important  in our daily lives. Social  media are primarily application tools for discussing and  sharing information. Social media applications, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Second Life,  and Flickr, have become a global phenomenon attracting millions of users. Thus, social media  popularity and its unique features contribute to potential e-learning, especially in online  distance learning.  It  increases  interest among educators to make  use of social  media  technologies in education. It is also attracting the attention of many researchers to examine the  usage and implications of social media applications, implemented in education.   This project attempts to review the functions and uniqueness of social media applications. It also  focuses on current research findings and their impact in education. A "Documentation and  Application Review" method is us.....

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