Social Learning with Social Media: Expanding and Extending the Communication Studies Classroom

2011 ◽  
pp. 107-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bodle
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Communication Studies

Towards Disability-Aware Social Media-Enriched Virtual Learning Environments

2021 ◽  
pp. 922-936
Author(s):  
Julius T. Nganji
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The increasing use of social media brings about the need to consider learners with disability when designing learning environments incorporating social learning. Additionally, there is need for educational institutions to consider social media-enriched learning environments. By default, designers and developers of virtual learning environments tend to design for learners without disabilities. The consequences for learners with disabilities are enormous. This chapter aims to propose a disability-aware approach to designing social learning environments that advocates that stakeholders consider the needs of learners with disabilities throughout development. The challenges that learners with disabilities face when interacting with learning systems are reviewed, and a disability-aware approach to designing social learning environments is presented, examining how this could be practically implemented. The opinions and recommendations of 48 students with disabilities from two universities in the United Kingdom and Canada are presented.

scholarly journals Mobile Social Media and the News: Where Heutagogy Enables Journalism Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Mulrennan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Traditional Teaching Methods ◽  
Journalism Students

Journalism schools are under pressure to look beyond traditional teaching methods to prepare students for the post-Internet, rapidly evolving news landscape. Heutagogy is a net-centric teaching method in which learners are highly autonomous and self-determined. In this article, Participatory Action Research theory was applied within a heutagogical framework to the redevelopment of a social media course for journalism students at AUT University, New Zealand. The findings form the basis of recommendations across the wider journalism curriculum, and there are also implications for other areas of communication studies, public relations, and online or broadcast media.

scholarly journals Screening for Erdoğanism: Television, post-truth and political fear

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-354
Author(s):  
Burçe Çelik
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Production Dynamics

The majority of current political communication studies focuses on digital and social media, and overlooks the centrality of television for the production and endurance of strongman politics in the Global South. By focusing on the journalistic television productions aired during the June 2018 election period in Turkey, this article unpacks the televisual logic that is incarnated in different modalities of telling and narrating of televisual genres. I propose two main themes: the ‘political fear’ of physical and social security threats, and ‘post-truth communications’ as the main televisual idioms for a vision of the future that is either secure or chaotic, that is, with or without Erdoğan. By combining political economy, content and textual analysis, I scrutinise the production dynamics of the televisual economy and the control and content of factual segments.

Konsistenztheorien & Selective Exposure

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arne Freya Zillich
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Social Psychological Research ◽  
Filter Bubbles ◽  
State Of Research

Do people prefer information that is consistent with their own attitude and avoid contradicting information? Which individual and societal effects arise of selective exposure to confirming information? These questions are examined in research on theories of consistency and selective exposure. The book outlines the central theoretical assumptions, exemplifies typical research designs and commonly applied methods and reviews the state of research from the early social-psychological research until current debates about the emergence of echo chambers and filter bubbles in social media. Conclusively, alternative explanatory approaches for the systematic preference of information are presented. The book is suitable as textbook for students and lecturers of communication studies as well as an introductory reading for communication practitioners and other interested parties.

The hardware and software of Trumpism: A figure/ground analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey Miroshnichenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Instrumental Approach ◽  
News Industry ◽  
The Media

This article probes into Trumpism using McLuhan’s idea of figure/ground analysis. To make visible the hidden ground behind a salient figure (or figures), the dichotomy of instrumental and environmental approaches to media effects is introduced. The widely used instrumental approach is rooted in the long-standing Lasswellian tradition of communication studies (‘who says what, in which channel, to whom, with what effect?’). The instrumental explanations of Trumpism are unavoidably reductionist, as they focus on figures and, therefore, overemphasize rationality and agency in media use. On the contrary, the environmental approach focuses on hidden ground and explores what environmental forces originate from new media’s proliferation and how these forces reshape habitat and inhabitants. To apply this view, the article examines the environmental factors within the news industry and social media that are favourable to Trumpism: the commodification of Trump by the media, the morphological conflict between broadcasting and engaging modes of agenda-setting, the built-in polarization of social media and others.

scholarly journals Reflecting on Social Learning Tools to Enhance the Teaching-Learning Experience of Generation Z Learners

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizelle Juanee Cilliers
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Teaching Learning

Limited research has considered social learning tools and preferences of the Generation Z learner from a higher educational perspective. This research is based on the educational theories of constructivism and social learning, in attempt to reflect on social learning tools employed in a third year Urban and Regional Planning module at the North-West University (South Africa). The empirical investigation was based on the reflections from Generation Z learners who were introduced to a range of social media tools. The paper aimed to investigate if social learning tools can positively impact the learner experience in the contemporary classroom based on longitudinal data. It identified the preferences of the Generation Z learners in terms of social media tools, and the trends thereof, during a 10-year period (2011–2020). Finally, the paper drew on the perspective of the educator, in reflecting on the challenges, but also scope, to include social learning tools as part of higher education teaching-learning.

scholarly journals Editorial: Freedom of Expression and the Online Abyss

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-109
Author(s):  
Maria Elliot ◽  
Kristoffer Holt
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
The State ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Democratic Discourse

This introduction to the thematic issue <em>Freedom of Expression, Democratic Discourse and the Social Media</em> discusses the state of the debate surrounding freedom of expression in the field of communication studies and presents four original articles dealing with freedom of speech in contemporary media from different perspectives.

scholarly journals Probabilistic social learning improves the public’s judgments of news veracity

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0247487
Author(s):  
Douglas Guilbeault ◽  
Samuel Woolley ◽  
Joshua Becker
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Peer Networks ◽  
Literacy Programs

The digital spread of misinformation is one of the leading threats to democracy, public health, and the global economy. Popular strategies for mitigating misinformation include crowdsourcing, machine learning, and media literacy programs that require social media users to classify news in binary terms as either true or false. However, research on peer influence suggests that framing decisions in binary terms can amplify judgment errors and limit social learning, whereas framing decisions in probabilistic terms can reliably improve judgments. In this preregistered experiment, we compare online peer networks that collaboratively evaluated the veracity of news by communicating either binary or probabilistic judgments. Exchanging probabilistic estimates of news veracity substantially improved individual and group judgments, with the effect of eliminating polarization in news evaluation. By contrast, exchanging binary classifications reduced social learning and maintained polarization. The benefits of probabilistic social learning are robust to participants’ education, gender, race, income, religion, and partisanship.

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