Hedge, Nicole, and Shaw, Lauren (2024) Adding Insult to Injustice: Exploring differences in the role of justice perceptions and social media use on vengeful dissent in online and on-campus education. In: ASCILITE 2024 Conference Proceedings: Navigating the Terrain: Emerging Frontiers in Learning Spaces, Pedagogies, and Technologies. From: ASCILITE 2024: 41st International Conference on Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education, 1-4 December 2024, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

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Abstract

Demand for online higher education has grown considerably in recent years but comes with a unique set of challenges. Online students often experience lower sense of connection, which may give impetus to join student-led social media groups. Use of these groups may exacerbate another challenge: the reportedly greater levels of vengeful dissent towards staff from online students, which, in on-campus students, has been linked to low procedural justice perceptions. This study explored the association between procedural justice perceptions and vengeful dissent in online and on-campus education, examining the moderating effect of student-led social media groups. A total of 127 adults (M age = 25.46, SD = 7.82; 73.22% female) who were either studying or had recently completed a degree at an Australian university in either fully online or on-campus mode (64 online; 63 on-campus) completed an online self-report survey. As hypothesised, low procedural justice perceptions were more strongly associated with greater vengeful dissent in online students and use of student-led social media groups strengthened the association in online students only. The findings represent the first to empirically explore the justice perception-dissent relationship in online learning and have several implications for policy and practice in navigating online education.

Item ID:	84969
Item Type:	Conference Item (Research - E1)
Copyright Information:	Copyright (c) 2024 Lauren Shaw, Nicole Hedge. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Date Deposited:	24 Mar 2025 00:25
FoR Codes:	52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5201 Applied and developmental psychology > 520102 Educational psychology @ 50% 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5205 Social and personality psychology > 520505 Social psychology @ 50%
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