Social work and social media: a national replication study of use, attitudes, and knowledge among US Students.
The extensive adoption of social media (ie digital information and communications technology; artificial intelligence; machine learning; large language models) has implications for the social work profession's standards and educational policy. The purposes of this study were to describe US social wo...
| Publicado en: | Social Work Education Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 10 - 34 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2026
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