scholarly journals Exploring Peer-to-Peer Library Content and Engagement on a Student-Run Facebook Group

2016 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaya Van Beynen ◽  
Camielle Swenson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
University Students ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
New Feature ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Student-run Facebook groups offer librarians a new means of interacting with students in their native digital domain. Facebook groups, a service launched in 2010 enables university students to create a virtual forum to discuss their concerns, issues, and promote events. While still a relatively new feature, these groups are increasingly being utilized by students in universities and colleges throughout North America. Little research has been done on these groups and how they may be changing the way that students interact with each other and with their university on social media. A student-run university Facebook group was monitored for a year to measure library content and types of engagement. The purpose of this research was to systematically explore whether outreach to these new virtual forums are of value to librarians in term of effort and outcome, and to provide research-based insight into the best practices for librarians when confronted with similar unofficial student-run Facebook groups. Our findings suggest that library employees strategically focus on key periods during the semester and use photographs and contests to increase virtual engagement and spontaneous in-library event participation. Students used the Facebook group both as a source for library information and to thoroughly answer their peers’ general library questions; when confronted with more research-based questions, the students referred each other to the library for help. We conclude, that library outreach on a student-run university Facebook group is manageable and can complement in-house marketing and reference efforts.

Assessing Social Media Use in Instruction and Marketing

2019 ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ashley Wright Joe
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Revenue Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Library Use ◽  
Faculty And Staff ◽  
The Way

Assessment is increasingly important for libraries to address, as it speaks to justification for funding and support from the larger university. Many university budget models now require departments and colleges to be self-funding, whereas the library does not have traditional revenue sources. Statistics, including retention impact, encourage faculty and staff to promote library use to their students and encourage departments and colleges to support funding the library. This chapter explores best practices for assessing social media use in the context of instruction and marketing. It outlines the reasons for implementing an assessment plan as well as the steps necessary to successfully assess social media use, starting with outlining the specific goals for social media use, all the way through review and modification of the social media plan.

False Information Narratives

2019 ◽  
pp. 326-348
Author(s):  
J. J. Sylvia IV ◽  
Kyle Moody
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
False Information ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
Geographic Locations ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Way

The issue of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election has been widely debated by scholars and journalists. However, these works have not fully analyzed the ads that have been released by Facebook and the U.S. Congress. This project uses a case study to analyze the ads posted by the Russian-affiliated Internet Research Agency, considering the quantities of ads targeted to particular geographic locations, the frequency of targeting for unique keywords, and the reach and impressions of each of the ads. Further, these results are compared to results from best practices in traditional social media campaigns as a way to better understand the goals and potential impacts of the IRA ads. In conclusion, the project, by analyzing the full set of IRA ads, sheds new light on the way false information narratives were leveraged by the Russian-linked IRA.

Promoting Civic Engagement through University Curricula

2017 ◽  
pp. 218-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryna Bobick
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
University Students ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
The Arts ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

In recent years, universities and colleges are including civic engagement in their mission statements. University administrators are increasingly encouraged faculty and students to participate in civic engagement both on and off campus. Various stakeholders should be part of this conversation in order to create a setting for learning that reflects the mission of the university or college. In this study, sixteen university freshmen participated in civic engagement through a freshman honors forum course. In addition to promoting civic engagement, the course supported the arts and museums in Memphis, Tennessee. Pre and exit surveys were conducted the participants to gain insight into their thoughts and experiences towards the course's curriculum. Their experiences provide a window into thinking about the role of civic engagement with university students.

scholarly journals From Anti-Vaxxer Moms to Militia Men: Influence Operations, Narrative Weaponization, and the Fracturing of American Identity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Weinberg ◽  
Jessica Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

How in 2020 were anti-vaxxer moms mobilized to attend reopen protests alongside armed militia men? This paper explores the power of weaponized narratives on social media both to create and polarize communities and to mobilize collective action and even violence. We propose that focusing on invocation of specific narratives and the patterns of narrative combination provides insight into the shared sense of identity and meaning different groups derive from these narratives. We then develop the WARP (Weaponize, Activate, Radicalize, Persuade) framework for understanding the strategic deployment and presentation of narratives in relation to group identity building and individual responses. The approach and framework provide powerful tools for investigating the way narratives may be used both to speak to a core audience of believers while also introducing and engaging new and even initially unreceptive audience segments to potent cultural messages, potentially inducting them into a process of radicalization and mobilization.

Fitness Philanthropy: Exploring a Movement at the Nexus of Leisure, Charity, and Events

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Catherine Palmer ◽  
Kevin Filo ◽  
Nicholas Hookway
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Corporate Giving ◽  
Making A Difference ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Corporate Sponsors ◽  
Insight Into

Sport is increasingly being used by individuals, charities, and corporate sponsors as a means of acquiring donors and fundraisers to support a variety of social and health causes. This paper examines five key features of fitness philanthropy that when considered together provide new sociological insight into a unique social phenomenon. These are: (a) peer-to-peer giving, (b) social media accounts of embodied philanthropy, (c) community connection and making a difference, (d) fitness philanthropy as social capital, and (e) charity and corporate giving. The significance of the paper is threefold. First, it highlights the ways in which fitness philanthropy points to the changing nature of sport, leisure, and physical activity, whereby fundraising is a key motivation for participation. Second, it examines the types of “empathy paths” created by fitness philanthropy with its emphasis on the body, social media, and peer-to-peer forms of organizational giving. Third, the paper seeks to answer critical questions about fitness philanthropy in the context of neoliberalism and “caring capitalism.” Bringing these themes into dialogue with broader research on the intersections between sport and charity adds to the body of sociological research on sport, philanthropy, well-being, and civic engagement by addressing novel conceptual frameworks for the embodied expression of these concerns.

Archive Everything

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Giannachi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This book traces the evolution of the archive across the centuries by looking at primitive, Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian and contemporary archives. Crucially, the book evidences the fluidity and potential inter-changeability between libraries, archives and museums. A number of case studies offer an insight into the operation of a variety of different types of archives, including cabinets of curiosity, archival artforms, architectures, performances, road-shows, time capsules, social media documentation practices, databases, and a variety of museological web-based heritage platforms. The archive is shown to play a crucial role in how individuals and social groups administer themselves through and within a burgeoning social memory apparatus. This is why at the heart of every industrial revolution thus far, the archive continues to contribute to the way we store, preserve and generate knowledge through an accumulation of documents, artifacts, objects, as well as ephemera and even debris. The archive has always been strategic for different types of economies, including the digital economy and the internet of things. Shown here to increasingly affect to the way we map, produce, and share knowledge, the apparatus of the archive, which allows us to continuously renew who we are in relation to the past, so that new futures may become possible, now effectively pervades almost every aspect of our lives.

Promoting Civic Engagement Through University Curricula

2019 ◽  
pp. 776-793
Author(s):  
Bryna Bobick
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
University Students ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
The Arts ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

In recent years, universities and colleges are including civic engagement in their mission statements. University administrators are increasingly encouraged faculty and students to participate in civic engagement both on and off campus. Various stakeholders should be part of this conversation in order to create a setting for learning that reflects the mission of the university or college. In this study, sixteen university freshmen participated in civic engagement through a freshman honors forum course. In addition to promoting civic engagement, the course supported the arts and museums in Memphis, Tennessee. Pre and exit surveys were conducted the participants to gain insight into their thoughts and experiences towards the course's curriculum. Their experiences provide a window into thinking about the role of civic engagement with university students.

Naked loan selfies: Becoming collateral, becoming pornography

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482095725
Author(s):  
Jessie Liu ◽  
Helen Keane
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Karen Barad ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Entities ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Naked loan selfies are a Chinese Internet phenomenon in which naked selfies taken by young women are used as a form of collateral in peer-to-peer loaning systems. Despite being the subject of sensationalised media coverage in China, naked loan selfies have so far received only very limited academic attention. Drawing on the new materialist ontologies of Karen Barad and Annemarie Mol, this article investigates naked loan selfies as techno-social entities that are enacted through specific online networks and practices. The article uses text-based research and online walkthroughs to trace the way naked loan selfies are constituted first as collateral, and second as pornography. As well as providing insight into an under-researched online phenomenon, this article contributes to the growing body of work on selfies as networked, lively and agentic.

scholarly journals The changing face(book) of psychiatry: can we justify ‘following’ patients' social media activity?

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 283-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chantal Cox-George
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

SummaryIndividuals with mental health issues may post information on social networking sites that can provide an insight into their mental health status. It could be argued that doctors (and specifically psychiatrists) should understand the way in which social media is used by their patients to gain a better insight into their illnesses. However, choosing to actively monitor a patient's social media activity raises important questions about the way in which medical students, qualified clinicians and other healthcare professionals obtain information about patients. While this may be framed as a mere form of ‘collateral history-taking’, there are obvious practical and ethical problems with doing so. Here, a case is made against monitoring the social media activity of patients involved with psychiatric services.

scholarly journals Teaching Compressed-Format Courses: Teacher-Based Best Practices

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Kops
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Classroom Instruction ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Course Planning ◽  
Summer Session ◽  
Flexible Delivery ◽  
Delivery Models ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This study provides insight into how highly rated instructors approached teaching compressed summer session courses, and offers a set of best practices that others might use when teaching in similar settings. Top-rated instructors indicated differences in the way they taught compressed-format summer session courses, with respect to course planning, classroom instruction, student assessment, and interaction with students. The study is of value to continuing educators, as universities are increasingly challenged to think about flexible delivery models, including teaching and learning in compressed formats.

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