Looking at, looking up or keeping up with people?: motives and use of facebook
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A theoretical model of intentional social action in online social networks
Decision Support Systems
Modeling educational usage of Facebook
Computers & Education
DEXA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Workshops on Database and Expert Systems Applications
All the news that's fit to post: A profile of news use on social networking sites
Computers in Human Behavior
Implementing Web 2.0 technologies in higher education: A collective case study
Computers & Education
Comparing actual and self-reported measures of Facebook use
Computers in Human Behavior
Video-sharing educational tool applied to the teaching in renewable energy subjects
Computers & Education
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Web 2.0 tools have gained strategic importance in personal, social and educational contexts. In this study, we analysed the use made by 757 Spanish students of 10 Web 2.0 tools, namely wikis, blogs, Moodle, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Maps, Skype, Flickr, YouTube and general or personal social networks. To this end, we administered an online questionnaire, the HEWE2.0, designed using the Google Docs application, to explore five questions: (i) what information, knowledge and training the subjects had, (ii) how they used the tools: difficulty, preference and satisfaction, (iii) when and where they used them, (iv) why they had begun to use them, and (v) what they used them for. We performed two types of analysis, one descriptive and the other multivariate, using the General Linear Model. The results show specific patterns of response according to sex, educational level and age. We found that female subjects showed a greater preference for social tools than males, who preferred instrumental tools; that the higher the subjects' educational level, the more information they possessed about Web 2.0 tools; and that functional knowledge about those tools requiring greater digital competence increased with age and vice versa. The implications of these results are discussed and evaluated.