Scholarly Research on Educational Adaptation of Social Media: Is There Evidence of Publication Bias?

The sizeable majority of research findings on educational adaptation of social media (SM) is based on college student samples. A cursory review of the extant literature on the educational use of SM appears to convey an uncritical spirit regarding adaptations of modern Web 2.0 technology. This article examines the issue of whether publication bias is a factor in this emerging research domain. To that end, a keyword search in the database...