Presence of digital social networks in educational practices of law course

Abstract

Digital social networks are intensively present in people's lives, a fact that cannot be ignored in the training process within undergraduate courses. The use of digital technologies in educational practices is already a reality; however, how social networks have permeated the daily life of university classrooms is a topic that needs to be studied. Young people use computers networks to access and learn from different media. In fields such as Law, there are professionals and professors who share content and present themselves personally and professionally on digital social networks, many of whom have a significant number of followers. In this sense, this article aims to analyze and discuss how faculty and students of a Law course perceive the repercussions of social networks educational process. The qualitative research used questionnaires and interviews as data collection tools. The study involved 10 professors and 123 students. The results indicated that participants recognize the influence and uses of digital social networks in their personal, academic, and professional lives, as well as their impacts on teaching and learning processes.