This volume highlights key aspects of new media, knowledge practices and multiliteracies in communication and education, providing readers with a range of empirical findings, novel theories and applications. The reports also include best practices, case studies, innovative solutions and lessons learned with regard to three core fields: (1) New media: discussions on the effects of traditional and new media, legal risks concerning social media, the effects of media intervention on help-seeking attitudes, obstacles of using tablets for learning, qualitative interpretation of media reporting, use of social media for enhancing design practices, and news-reading habits; (2) Knowledge practices: exploration of online viewing and lifestyles, reform of school management models, undergraduate students' mathematics learning experiences, perceived accounting ethics and online knowledge sharing, creating knowledge repositories, digital technologies outside school, smartphone usage and life satisfaction, and cultural differences and isomerism; and (3) Multiliteracies: studies on learning style inventories, the impact of ICT in interdisciplinary approaches, ePortfolios for learning, video production and generic skills enhancement, mobile-assisted collaborative learning, and the effects of project-based learning on student achievements. The reports presented are from various countries and organizations.

Equips readers to handle complex issues in both communication and education Clarifies the difference between practitioners and academics in communication and in education Highlights the technological changes which call for new communication and pedagogies Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Introduction .- The Changing Face of Educational Technology: New Media, Knowledge Practices and Multiliteracies
Allan H.K. Yuen.- New Media .- Cultivation Effects of Television Broadcasting and Online Media
Hey Yeung Lau.- Online Legal Risks in Social Media: Lessons from a Few Court Cases in Hong Kong
Kar-wai Tong.- The Effect of a Brief Media Intervention on Help-Seeking Attitudes among College Students in Hong Kong
Wai Kit Wong.- Understanding the Obstacles of Using Tablet as a Learning Tool in Primary Schools from Teachers' Perceptions
Xiaolei Li, Allan H.K. Yuen, Wenting Zou.- Whistleblower or Leaker? Examining the Portrayal and Characterization of Edward Snowden in US, UK and HK Posts
Amy Wu, Will W.K. Ma, Wendy W.L. Chan.- Destuckification: Use of Social Media for Enhancing Design Practices
Yun Yi Tan, Allan H.K. Yuen.- News Reading Habits of Young University Students in Hong Kong in the Age of New Media
Alvin C.M. Kwan, Ivy C.T. Cheng, Joie H.Y. Wong.- Knowledge Practices .- An Exploration of Online Viewing on an Individual's Dating Attitude and Love Style
Hilda Yuet Hang Kho.- The Restriction of Degree: Reform of Public School management models
Kongzhen Li, Jingjing Zhang.- Falling through the Cracks: Undergraduate Students' Mathematics Learning Experience
Lesa Covington Clarkson, Forster D Ntow, Sousada Chidthachack, Elizabeth A Crotty.- An Exploratory Study on Interactive Whiteboard Usage on Enhancing Oral English in Secondary Classrooms
Guochen Zhang, Liping Deng.- Exploring Perceived Accounting Ethics of University Students on Online Knowledge Sharing
Sally M. Li .- Exploring Hong Kong Youth's Engagement with Digital Technologies outside School
Liping Deng, Jan Connelly, Miki Lau, Kelly Y.L. Ku.- Building up a Knowledge Repository in a School
Kai Wing Chu.- Smartphone Usage, Social Relations and Life Satisfaction of Hong Kong CollegeStudents
Raymond Chi Fai Chui.- Concept of Cultural Differences between Chinese and Western University Culture Based on the Idea of Isomerism
Cheng-en Li, Tie-shan Hou, Liang Chang .- Exploring the Effectiveness of Blended Learning in Cost and Management Accounting - An Empirical Study
Rosanne Suet Ching Chak, Heidi Fung.- Multiliteracies .- Variable-centered and Person-centered Approaches to Studying the VARK Learning Style Inventory
Wilfred W.F. Lau, Allan H.K. Yuen, Albert Chan.- The Impact of ICT on Pedagogical Practices in an Interdisciplinary Approach
Kathryn Reed.- Students' Perception of Using ePortfolios for Learning in Higher Education
Danlin Yang, Alexandra Chiu Yee Ngai, Hing Keung Hung .- Investigating the Relationship between Students' Attitude towards Video Production Project and their Generic Skills Enhancement
Heidi Fung, Will W.K. Ma.- Enhancing Primary School Students' Story-Writing by Mobile-Assisted Collaborative Learning: A Case Study
Wenting Zou, Xiaolei Li .- The Impact of Project-Based Learning and Technology on Student Achievement in Mathematics
Leah J Branch.