Social Media Usage by Generation Z in Pre-trip Planning

2019 ◽

pp. 64-94

Author(s):

Caoimhe Doran ◽

Heidi Lee Schnackenberg

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Students With Disabilities ◽

Explicit Instruction ◽

Teaching Styles ◽

Smart Phone ◽

Media Usage ◽

The Past ◽

Generation Z ◽

Instruction Strategies

In the past decade, social media has become an increasingly prevalent, being the daily form of communication and entertainment for a majority of individuals. Social media and networking sites are not designed to appeal to a specific type of personality and are designed to benefit many. The students of Generation Z respond positively to teaching styles that incorporate technology-based learning, and frequent communication or feedback. Gen Z students with disabilities are entitled to the same opportunities and experiences as their peers without disabilities. This includes being exposed to various forms of social media to discover alternative ways to communicate, interact with the community, find information and access entertainment. While other members of Generation Z possess the capability to pick up a smart phone or computer, create a social media account and figure out the functions independently, students with disabilities may require explicit instruction, strategies and practice with social media usage.

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Social Media and Student With Disabilities

10.4018/978-1-6684-3542-7.ch052 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 949-970

Author(s):

Caoimhe Doran ◽

Heidi Lee Schnackenberg

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Students With Disabilities ◽

Explicit Instruction ◽

Teaching Styles ◽

Smart Phone ◽

Media Usage ◽

The Past ◽

Generation Z ◽

Instruction Strategies

In the past decade, social media has become an increasingly prevalent, being the daily form of communication and entertainment for a majority of individuals. Social media and networking sites are not designed to appeal to a specific type of personality and are designed to benefit many. The students of Generation Z respond positively to teaching styles that incorporate technology-based learning, and frequent communication or feedback. Gen Z students with disabilities are entitled to the same opportunities and experiences as their peers without disabilities. This includes being exposed to various forms of social media to discover alternative ways to communicate, interact with the community, find information and access entertainment. While other members of Generation Z possess the capability to pick up a smart phone or computer, create a social media account and figure out the functions independently, students with disabilities may require explicit instruction, strategies and practice with social media usage.

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The Generation Z and their Social Media Usage: A Review and a Research Outline

Global Journal of Enterprise Information System ◽

10.18311/gjeis/2017/15748 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 110 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Gyan Prakash Yadav ◽

Jyotsna Rai

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Personal Factors ◽

Media Usage ◽

Generational Difference ◽

Generation Z ◽

Present Generation ◽

The Social ◽

The Us ◽

Use Of Social Media

The paper tries to explore the awareness of how the present Generation Z is using the social media as well as to review its repercussion on them as an individual’s, organization and society as a system. The paper demarcates Generation Z from other branches of generation with a systematized differentiation in the behaviour, principles and choices which are constant over the time. It outlines their social media usage and intra-generational difference springing from environmental factors and personal factors. Personal factors are divided into steady and driving factors. The paper brings forward how the futuristic Generation Z’s use of social media influences them as an individual’s, organization and society. It also attempts to bring forward certain managerial repercussions and to them and a research outline. Earlier researches on access of social media by Generation Y as well as Generation Z give rise to certain queries which are yet to be answered. They laid focus mainly on the US & UK, ignoring other regions and countries (including nation like India which comprises of 28% of youths) with huge and rapidly increasing share of Generation Y’s & Z’s populations; and where the determinants of social-media usability would vary considerably; the customer set under these studies are those whose behaviour are inclined to vary as they move on the different phases of their life cycle; they tried to understand Generation Z’s social media use but misses to look at the controllers as well as aftermaths of social-media usage. The theoretical frame of reference brought forward in this paper harvests a thorough set of investigation questions and designs the pathway for considering the predecessors & outcomes of social networking used by Gen Z. It tries to identify certain ignored queries regarding Gen Z’s and their social media usability, along with also sketches practical insights for various decision makers.

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Is smartphone usage predicting fear of missing out and loneliness in a sample from the generation z?

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/1071181320641183 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 64 (1) ◽

pp. 791-795

Author(s):

Cristiane K. Brazil ◽

Malgorzata J. Rys

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Individual Differences ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Fear Of Missing Out ◽

Media Usage ◽

Generation Z ◽

Mixed Feelings ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Project Data ◽

New Phenomena

Despite being an extremely connected society, new phenomena are stemming from this new tech-era, such as Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) and loneliness. In this project, data was collected from around 150 Generation Z engineering students to analyze possible individual predictors of FOMO and loneliness, and their link with objective measurements of smartphone and social media usage. The results show that more than half of subjects underestimated their usage time, and there was no direct correlation between overall smartphone use and FOMO. When analyzing individual differences in personality traits, FOMO was linked to Agreeableness, Neuroticism and Extraversion. Loneliness was found to be related with how subjects usually feel after using social media, with more than 40% of them having negative of mixed feelings after visiting social media platforms. This study gives insights of behavioral decisions of younger adults and how individual differences might impact the outcomes of social media use.

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Social media use and its impact on intrinsic motivation in Generation Z: a case study from Poland

Global Knowledge Memory and Communication ◽

10.1108/gkmc-08-2020-0113 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Karol Król ◽

Dariusz Zdonek

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Intrinsic Motivation ◽

Full Time ◽

Content Type ◽

Media Usage ◽

Generation Z ◽

Part Time Students ◽

Part Time ◽

Brand Perception ◽

Use Of Social Media

Purpose Activities on social platforms affect the audience. They may impact brand perception, purchasing decisions or motivation to act. Motivation makes people behave in certain ways. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the use of social media and its impact on intrinsic motivation, with a focus on Generation Z users (born between 1994 and 2002). Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted multifaceted survey research among full-time and part-time students of one of the largest universities in Poland. The survey was carried out on students of three major fields of study. The analysis involved 427 questionnaires. The data was analysed both with unidimensional and two-dimensional statistical analysis. Findings Although the respondents indicated some “motivational aspects” of social media usage, most of them were characterised by a passive attitude and infrequent activity on such websites. Not many of the respondents published actively. The respondents expected valuable content but were not inclined to disseminate it. Originality/value Publishing of own content and ability to view others’ content in social media may not be enough to increase the user base of a social platform. One way to do this may be narrowing down or diversification of the array of additional services and functionalities that induce users to increase the use rate.

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