Understanding how students experience their first year of higher education(FYHE) is an essential component of sophisticated transition curriculum design.Contemporary student voice is largely absent from the research which informsthird generation FYHE research. Social network sites (SNSs) are a tool foradding student voice to the development of transition pedagogy. This paperreports on how one study gathered student experiences using the social networksite, Facebook. By using research that archived the status updates of 26 first yearstudents, this paper explains and justifies the use of phenomenography as aconceptual framework and research approach for dealing with social networksite data. This paper also reports, in part, on the findings of a longitudinal studysought to understand the transition experiences of the participants throughout2011. The potential of research using social network site data for transitioncurriculum design and future research is discussed.
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