A Research Paper on Social media: An Innovative Educational Tool

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gitanjali Kalia
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Educational Tool

scholarly journals A Preliminary Scoping Review Study of the Progress of Social Media Adoption as an Educational Tool by Academics in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Perez ◽  
Mairead Brady
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Scoping Study ◽  
Time Investment

This paper presents a preliminary scoping review exploring the evidence landscape regarding academic staff experiences and perceptions of social media adoption as an educational tool in higher education. The goal of this paper is to examine 10 empirical studies of social media adoption in teaching and learning by academics in preparation for a proposal for a systematic literature review. Consequently, this scoping study assisted in the development of a review protocol which established the inclusion and exclusion criteria for conducting this systematic review at a future date. This paper will present the first stage of carrying out a systematic review: planning the review and presenting the results of the scoping study. The findings of this scoping study revealed that academics are slow in adopting social media within teaching and academics that have adopted the use of social media do so primarily for sharing relevant information and resources easily with students rather than for teaching purposes. Overall, the adoption of social media as an educational tool is faced with many challenges, such as cultural resistance, pedagogical issues, lack of institutional support and time investment. The results also indicate that teaching styles, demographic factors, privacy issues and previous experience can influence academic staff’s decision to adopt social media for teaching purposes.

#OrthoTwitter: social media as an educational tool

2020 ◽  
pp. bmjstel-2020-000630
Author(s):  
Muhammad Arham Sahu ◽  
Zahrah Goolam-Mahomed ◽  
Simon Fleming ◽  
Usman Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Clinical Education ◽  
Orthopedic Surgery ◽  
Orthopaedic Surgery ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Orthopaedic Surgeons ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Use Of Social Media

AimsThe increased use of social media creates opportunity for new, effective methods of delivering medical and clinical education. Twitter is a popular social media platform where users can post frequent updates and create threads containing related content using hashtags. This study aims to investigate and analyse the type of content relating to orthopaedic surgery that is being posted on the platform of Twitter.MethodsA retrospective search was performed for tweets containing the words ‘orthopaedic surgery’ or ‘orthopedic surgery’ or the use of the hashtag ‘#OrthoTwitter’ between November 2018 to November 2019. A total of 5243 tweets were included.ResultsTweets containing ‘orthopaedic surgery’ or ‘orthopedic surgery’ most frequently contained promotional or marketing content (30% promotional, 21% marketing), and private organisations were the category of author to which the greatest number of tweets belonged (30%). Tweets containing educational or research content were the least common among all tweets containing ‘orthopaedic surgery’ or ‘orthopedic surgery’ (11%). In contrast, of the tweets containing the hashtag ‘#OrthoTwitter’, 44% contained educational or research content, 15% contained promotional content and no tweets containing marketing content. Furthermore, 87% of all tweets using the hashtag ‘#OrthoTwitter’ were from orthopaedic surgeons, and the least number of tweets were from private organisations (2%).ConclusionTwitter is a widely used social media platform regarding orthopaedic surgery. We propose that the hashtag ‘#OrthoTwitter’ can be used to create an online community of orthopaedic surgeons where members can assist one another through sharing reliable and educational content.

Political ‘apptivism’ in the Middle East: The case of iNakba

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 658-673
Author(s):  
Oren Golan ◽  
Noam Tirosh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Grassroots Level ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Scholarly Attention

The use of social media in the Arab world has drawn an increasing amount of scholarly attention. Research addressing ‘Arab Spring’ upheavals and Islamic military movements has demonstrated grassroots level and often spontaneous uses of social media platforms. However, little attention has been paid to political apps as an emergent means of communication. Specifically, this study asks how users and developers view the use of political apps within the Israeli–Palestinian context by focusing on iNakba – an app that enables users to navigate Palestinian villages that were destroyed during the 1948 war and its aftermath. Ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative analysis of interviews with iNakba users and developers uncover three key facets of the app: (1) crowd mobilization, (2) educational tool that reanimates the invisible landscape of pre-1948 Palestine, and (3) promoting the Palestinian narrative. The study illuminates the role of political apps as agents of change for identity building and shaping users’ political consciousness.

scholarly journals KESAHAN KONSTRUK ITEM KAJIAN EMOSI KOMUNIKATOR, DAN BUDI BAHASA KOMUNIKASI MEDIA SOSIAL DALAM KALANGAN REMAJA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (SI1) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Romlah Ramli
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Dimension Reduction ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Validity Test ◽  
Interesting Part ◽  
Bartlett Test ◽  
Emotional Level

  This research paper is a quantitative exploration of adolescent communication in social media. The researcher studied the emotional variables of communicators and ‘Budi Bahasa’ as an important component after exploring previous studies, further, it was adapted in the context of adolescents in Malaysia with different views of politeness. Related issues such as manners while interacting on social media is an interesting part to be discussed. Apart from that, the study also explores the emotional level of adolescents during communication on social media. For the purpose of this paper, the researcher had conducted the items’ validity test for two variables through factor analysis ‘Dimension Reduction’ by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). All items used in both Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) and Bartlett test of sphericity values ​​were above .6 with significant values ​​less than .05.   Keywords: Manners; Budi Bahasa; communicator’ emotions; construct validity; adolescent communication.  

scholarly journals Framing crisis: news media narratives of the “Opi-void” (Opioid) epidemic on Twitter

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis Boyco
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Online News ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Opioid Crisis ◽  
Research Questions

The following Major Research Paper (MRP) focuses on the discussion of opioids in Canada, online news outlets, and social media. More specifically, this research focuses on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and how the organization frames the opioid crisis on Twitter through @CBCNews. This research excludes other CBC Twitter accounts (i.e., @CBC, @CBCAlerts, @CBCOttawa, @CBCToronto, @CBCManitoba, @CBCPolitics, @CBCCanada), as @CBCNews is the most active with 2.62 million followers. The following discussion considers the opioid discussion from a crisis communication lens. This research asserts that there is an apparent opioid crisis, given the situation’s complexity, and the number of opioid-related deaths. This research questions how social media (specifically Twitter) act as a tool for information dissemination during a health-related crisis, and how external factors (i.e., public opinion, bias, and current affairs) shape news content online. Without understanding the narrative (i.e., how a story is intentionally told) and strategies behind social media posts, news outlets like the CBC can promote hidden agendas and ideals (without a large amount of public knowledge or opposition). The CBC has goals, commitments, and preconceived notions like any other private organization. This reality is incredibly problematic during a public health crisis, as human lives depend on appropriate and trustworthy information. Instead of discussing an issue without bias or pre-conception, news outlets may provide subjective, false or vague information, which could lead to negative repercussions (Kim & Hyojung, 2017). Due to private motivations, the intent to control the opioid conversation (through politically-driven content, stigma-driven content or to even place blame, for example) or the promotion of ideas beneficial to pharmaceutical companies, for example, do news sources frame Twitter posts with a specific narrative in mind? Instead of analyzing social media as an enabler or an initiator of framing crisis online, this research focuses on how news outlets frame crises through social media as one of many possible media channels. Examining how social media as a platform acts as an echo chamber (therefore enabling an intended narrative) is an interesting concept. However, this type of analysis is beyond the scope of this research. As a result, the following Major Research Paper explores the following primary research questions: 1. How does the CBC frame the issue of opioid usage in Canada? In addition, why are their Twitter posts framed a certain way? 2. What is the nature of the dialogue occurring in response to the CBC’s Twitter coverage? What strategies are most conducive to audience response? 3. How are fluctuations and outliers in news coverage accounted for by the CBC? Do socially and/or politically driven events impact the timing of posts? Keywords: social media, crisis, communication, opioid crisis, strategy, political, narrative, framing, Canada, fentanyl, naloxone.

scholarly journals Mainstream Media’s FRAMING of #METOO CAMPAIGN IN INDIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Manjushree Ganapathi Naik
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Worldwide Phenomenon ◽  
Step Down ◽  
The Impact

The #metoo campaign became a worldwide phenomenon, through the tweet was made against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein by the actress Alyssa Milano on October 15, 2017. In India the campaign took off on October 7, 2018, when the actress Tanushree Dutta made serious allegations against the actor Nana Patekar, narrating her experiences while she was working with him in a film in 2008. The impact of the awareness created by #metoo campaign was such that well known personalities including the Union minister M J Akbar had to step down when the sexual harassment charges were leveled against them.In the backdrop of all these incidents, the study analyses the role of India media in framing of #metoo movements in India. The research paper analyses Indian news media’s coverage of this social media movement. The study focuses on the analyses of 40 news articles in two major national dailies in India.

scholarly journals The Opining Mining of Expatriate Adjustment and Significant Role of Social Media

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Benson Nwaorgu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Opinion Mining ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Expatriate Adjustment ◽  
The Social

In this research paper, the researcher focused on the opining mining of expatriate adjustment and the significant roleof social media in real life. It is also one of the significant research issues for the person who are having citizenshipof one country and living in another country with a cross-cultural environment. The researcher would identify thefactors of a cross-cultural environment which are suitable and significant for the expatriate adjustment with the helpof social media. The social media is having of its own significant role in adjusting expatriate with respect to opinionmining. The opinion mining is one of the processes of seeking innovation of ideas and thought on the basis ofexisting or currently available in the real world. The social media is playing one of the biggest enablers for expatriatein a cross-cultural environment. The objective of this research paper is to identify the factors which are significantwith respect to opinion mining and social media in a cross-cultural environment. The researcher emphasized that thereason for online communication with respect to social media that flows are concept and opinion which thus play asignificant role in the cohesion and transformation of society. Its minimal concern on the emergence of opinions,widespread, and get benefits. The researcher used the social media for the adjustment with respect to expatriate’sadjustment.

A social media adoption framework as pedagogical instruments in higher education classrooms

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-85
Author(s):  
Mostafa Hamadi ◽  
Jamal El-Den ◽  
Cherry Narumon Sriratanaviriyakul ◽  
Sami Azam
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Pedagogical Tools ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Thematic Review ◽  
Blackboard Learn ◽  
Standard Framework

Social Media (SM)’s use as pedagogical tools in Higher Education (HE) institutions is gaining robust momentum among researchers from different disciplines. While most universities implemented Learning Management Systems (Blackboard Learn, Moodle, etc.) as essential instruments in their teaching and learning(T&L) methods, the adoption of SM platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, etc., as in-class educational and communication tools is still in its infancy. Despite the numerous available studies on SM’s adoption as T&L instruments in HE, little has been made to develop a standard framework for SM’s integration as effective educational tool in classroom environments. This paper followed a thematic review of 19 relevant studies to analyse and identify common practices and findings on SM’s inclusion as T&L tools in HE. Subsequently, the findings formed the basis in developing a conceptual framework for SM’s integration as pedagogical tools in HE classrooms. This framework introduces SM’s adoption process as a formal educational tool, the development of SM implementation processes, and assists in understanding the influence of SM on education environments. The research outlines major findings in current literature, thereby, providing valuable insights on SM’s use in education, besides forming the basis for future quantitative and qualitative researches in this area of study.

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