COMMENTS ON RAMBE & NG’AMBI (2011): • The paper analyzed the role of Facebook in mediating information sharing among students who assume interchanging roles of informers and clients. • “Clients are invited by “Informers” to become friends. • It also describes the characteristics of facebook as an informing network. • The literature review comprises an historical outlook on the creation of facebook as well as its transformation as an educational platform. • The Activity system is of a Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) that is based upon Engeström’s (1999, 2001) principles of Activity System. • In summary, Engeström (1999) proposes that the Activity theory can be analytically summarized by five principles namely, activity system, multivoicedness, historicity, critical role of contradictions, and expansive transformations /learning. • This study employed an ethnographic case study approach. INFLUENCE OM MY IDEAS FOR THE PROPOSED PAPER: • The general use of...
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