“I Wouldn’t Classify Myself as an Activist”

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-312
Author(s):  
Hailey Chalhoub ◽  
Domenique Ciavattone ◽  
Christopher Wetzel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Digital Tools

Looking beyond the increasingly common trope of “slacktivism” that frames students as weakly “liking” causes or “tweeting” support through social media, our research analyzes how current students in the United States perceive and participate in action on college campuses. This action note reflects on three insights our research yields about contemporary student engagement: their ambivalence about embracing an “activist” label, their disinclination for direct action, and their thoughtful approach to digital tools. Complicating the view that college students are apathetic or disengaged, we find that students continue to be passionate and engaged, perhaps just not in ways that scholars of social movements might anticipate.

scholarly journals Using structural equation modeling to model compliance with COVID-19 related non-pharmaceutical interventions amongst university students in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer Shumway ◽  
Jonas Hopper ◽  
Ethan Richard Tolman ◽  
Daniel Ferguson ◽  
Gabriella Hubble ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
General Trust ◽  
The World ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

The world is currently dealing with a devastating pandemic. Although growing COVID-19 case numbers, deaths, and hospitalizations are concerning, this spread is particularly alarming in the United States where polarizing opinions, changing policies, and misinformation abound. In particular, American college campuses have been a venue of rampant transmission, with concerning spillover into surrounding, more vulnerable, communities. We surveyed over 600 college students from across the United States and modeled predictors of compliance with non-pharmaceutical interventions. We identified concern with severity (p < .001), constitutional originalist ideology (p < .001), news exposure (p < .001) and religiosity (p < .05) as significant positive correlates with compliance, and general trust in science (p < .05) as a significant negative correlate. To determine how applicable nationwide modeling might be to individual local campuses we also administered this same survey to nearly 600 students at two large universities in Utah County. In this population, concern with severity was the only significant positive correlate with compliance (p < .001); Additionally, feelings of inconvenience was negatively correlated (p < .001). The effects of feelings of inconvenience, and news exposure were significantly different between populations (p < .001, p < .001). These results suggest that we should focus our efforts on increasing knowledge about the pandemic’s effects on our society and informing about constitutionality amongst college students. However, we also show that nationwide surveys and modeling are informative, but if campuses are to efficiently curb the spread of COVID-19 this coming semester, they would be best served to utilize data collected from their student populations as these might significantly differ from general consensus data.

scholarly journals Predictors of compliance with COVID-19 related non-pharmaceutical interventions among university students in the United States

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252185
Author(s):  
Spencer G. Shumway ◽  
Jonas D. Hopper ◽  
Ethan R. Tolman ◽  
Daniel G. Ferguson ◽  
Gabriella Hubble ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
University Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
General Consensus ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
General Trust ◽  
The World ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

The world is currently dealing with a devastating pandemic. Although growing COVID-19 case numbers, deaths, and hospitalizations are concerning, this spread is particularly alarming in the United States where polarizing opinions, changing policies, and misinformation abound. In particular, American college campuses have been a venue of rampant transmission, with concerning spillover into surrounding, more vulnerable, communities. We surveyed over 600 college students from across the United States and modeled predictors of compliance with non-pharmaceutical interventions. We identified concern with severity, constitutionalism, news exposure, and religiosity as significant positive correlates with compliance, and general trust in science as a significant negative correlate. To determine how applicable nationwide modeling might be to individual local campuses we also administered this same survey to nearly 600 students at two large universities in Utah County. In this population, concern with severity was the only significant positive correlate with compliance; Additionally, feelings of inconvenience were negatively correlated. The effects of feelings of inconvenience, and news exposure were significantly different between populations. These results suggest that we should focus our efforts on increasing knowledge about the pandemic’s effects on our society and informing about constitutionality amongst college students. However, we also show that nationwide surveys and modeling are informative, but if campuses are to efficiently curb the spread of COVID-19 this coming semester, they would be best served to utilize data collected from their student populations as these might significantly differ from general consensus data.

scholarly journals Saudi Female International College Students’ Self-Identities Through the Use of Social Media in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-645
Author(s):  
Tahani Alruwaili ◽  
Heng-Yu Ku
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
States Data ◽  
International College ◽  
Use Of Social Media

This study explored 14 Saudi female international college students’ self-identities through social media use while they were studying in the United States. Data was collected by semistructured interviews. In addition, participants were asked to draw pictures that represented how they experience social media use in Saudi Arabia and in the United States as part of the interviews. The findings revealed that many participants indicated they experienced some changes to their identities after coming to the United States. Many of the participants expressed they were more open and more independent after coming to the United States. They felt they could express their identities on social media to a greater degree and enjoyed using it to connect with others. Although most of the participants became more comfortable with interaction and expression on social media in the United States, many of them still retained some measures to ensure their privacy.

Antisemitism on College Campuses: A Phenomenological Study of Jewish Students’ Lived Experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3.1) ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Paulina Flasch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Jewish Students ◽  
Phenomenological Research Design

Antisemitism has increased significantly across the world in recent years. From 2016 to 2017, hate crimes against Jews increased by fifty-seven percent in the United States.1 Further, US college campuses experienced an all-time high in antisemitic incidents, with a sixty-seven percent rise from 2016 to 2017.2, 3 Because of the escalation of antisemitism in the United States, especially on college campuses, the present study used a phenomenological research design to investigate college students’ (N=6) experiences of being Jewish on college campuses in the United States. Keywords: antisemitism, college students, college campus, university students

Social media intensity and first-year college students’ academic self-efficacy in Flanders and the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-137
Author(s):  
Jenna McNallie ◽  
Elisabeth Timmermans ◽  
Elizabeth Dorrance Hall ◽  
Jan Van den Bulck ◽  
Steven R. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year College ◽  
First Year College Students ◽  
Academic Self Efficacy

Informality: a Window on Contemporary Emotions History

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-135
Author(s):  
Peter N. Stearns
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Heavy Dose ◽  
The Way

Abstract An intriguing and pervasive development in the history of the past century – in the United States and at least some other societies – has been the rise of greater informality in interpersonal relations. Almost everyone knows this has been happening – a class of college students can offer a number of valid illustrations (with a heavy dose of habits on social media), and some have lived through even more extensive changes in, for example, the way people dress. But the phenomenon is dramatically understudied, taken for granted rather than assessed or analysed. There is a serious historical topic here that should be addressed by a wider audience, with several dimensions for further evaluation.

Violence, Social Movements, and Black Freedom Struggles

Contention ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
AK Thompson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Freedom Struggles

George Floyd’s murder by police on 26 May 2020 set off a cycle of struggle that was notable for its size, intensity, and rate of diffusion. Starting in Minneapolis, the uprising quickly spread to dozens of other major cities and brought with it a repertoire that included riots, arson, and looting. In many places, these tactics coexisted with more familiar actions like public assemblies and mass marches; however, the inflection these tactics gave to the cycle of contention is not easily reconciled with the protest repertoire most frequently mobilized during movement campaigns in the United States today. This discrepancy has led to extensive commentary by scholars and movement participants, who have often weighed in by considering the moral and strategic efficacy of the chosen tactics. Such considerations should not be discounted. Nevertheless, I argue that both the dynamics of contention witnessed during the uprising and their ambivalent relationship to the established protest repertoire must first be understood in historical terms. By considering the relationship between violence, social movements, and Black freedom struggles in this way, I argue that scholars can develop a better understanding of current events while anticipating how the dynamics of contention are likely to develop going forward. Being attentive to these dynamics should in turn inform our research agendas, and it is with this aim in mind that I offer the following ten theses.

A survey of Instagram users with asthma to evaluate the acceptability of a planned clinical trial intervention (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Spitzer ◽  
Brent Heineman ◽  
Marcella Jewell ◽  
Michael Moran ◽  
Peter Lindenauer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
College Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Healthy Behaviors ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Hispanic White

BACKGROUND Asthma is a chronic lung disease that affects nearly 25 million individuals in the United States. There is a need for more research into the potential for health care providers to leverage existing social media platforms to improve healthy behaviors and support individuals living with chronic health conditions. OBJECTIVE In this study, we assess the willingness of Instagram users with poorly controlled asthma to participate in a pilot study that uses Instagram as a means of providing social and informational support. In addition, we explore the potential for adapting photovoice and digital storytelling to social media. METHODS A survey study of Instagram users living with asthma in the United States, between the ages of 18 to 40. RESULTS Over 3 weeks of recruitment, 457 individuals completed the pre-survey screener; 347 were excluded. Of the 110 people who were eligible and agreed to participate in the study, 82 completed the study survey. Respondents mean age was 21(SD = 5.3). Respondents were 56% female (n=46), 65% (n=53) non-Hispanic white, and 72% (n=59) had at least some college education. The majority of respondents (n = 66, 81%) indicated that they would be willing to participate in the study. CONCLUSIONS Among young-adult Instagram users with asthma there is substantial interest in participating in a study that uses Instagram to connect participants with peers and a health coach in order to share information about self-management of asthma and build social connection.

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