Social media and academic spaces

This paper explores the tension that exists between informal and formal
media spaces. At a time when youth are increasingly drawn to social media as
places to produce and circulate culture and knowledge in relation to their identity,
educators are struggling to understand how to respond to writing and forms of
social interaction that do not run along traditional lines of academic literacy. The
paper considers how educators in secondary and post-secondary contexts are
responding to the challenges posed by social media spaces, spaces that are calling
into question traditional means of knowledge production and relationships within
formal academic communities.