The social mediated age of information: Twitter and Instagram as tools for information dissemination in higher education

Arceneaux, Phillip; Dinu, Lucian F.

doi:10.1177/1461444818768259

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“…A few studies have explored Instagram use by students as a required part of coursework (e.g., Arceneaux & Dinu, 2018 ; Erarslan, 2019 ). Also, Instagram use for informal educational purposes in the medical education field has received some attention, primarily related to the platform’s visual affordances for medical specialties such as anatomy and dentistry ( Douglas et al., 2019 ).…”

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How and why are educators using Instagram?

Carpenter

Morrison

Craft

et al. 2020

Teaching and Teacher Education

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Social media are commonplace in many educators’ lives, but their Instagram activities have received no prior attention in the empirical literature. We therefore created and disseminated a survey regarding educators’ Instagram use. Analyses of 841 responses suggested participants were generally intensive users of Instagram who engaged in the exchange of both professional knowledge and wisdom, as well as affective support. In addition to identifying benefits to Instagram use, some participants offered critiques of Instagram’s professional utility. We discuss the implications of these findings for educators’ work in a digital era and the future of research on educators’ social media activities.

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How and why are educators using Instagram?

Carpenter

Morrison

Craft

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Teaching and Teacher Education

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“…Within the digital media ecosystem, social networks have acquired great social relevance [ 11 ], joining traditional socializing agents (family, school, peer groups and communication media) in information processes and identity construction [ 12 , 13 ]. Twitter has become one of the most used social networks as a news media by stakeholders [ 14 , 15 ] as well as by journalists [ 16 , 17 ], and of course by its users [ 18 ], being employed by very diverse audiences to get information on news events [ 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ].…”

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Gender Differences in Sports News Coverage on Twitter

Sainz-de-Baranda

Adá-Lameiras

Blanco-Ruiz

2020

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Gender stereotypes influence boys’ and girls’ self-perception, with the differential treatment received by sports figures in the media being one of the main factors in the perpetuation of stereotypes about sports. The objective of this research is to analyze if the new communication channels, such as Twitter, maintain gender stereotypes when reporting sports news. For this purpose, the four most followed media in Spain were analyzed: (@ElPais_Deportes, @ABC_Deportes, @Marca and @MundoDeportivo) over a period of five months, from March to June 2016. Our sample was composed of 6544 tweets, with 96.19% about sportsmen compared to 3.81% that portrayed women. The sport with the most media coverage was football (72.11%), for men as well as for women, followed by basketball (6.63%). It is clear that despite the growing international triumphs of Spanish women athletes in recent years, the latter continue to be underrepresented in the media. Female athletes receive more media coverage according to the sport which they engage in (“gender-appropriate” sports), with the exception of football, and not in accordance with their accomplishments. Twitter remains at the service of traditional media replicating the same gender biases and even augmenting them.

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“…Furthermore, studies have shown that visual products are more efficient in capturing the publics attention (Arceneaux & Dinu, 2018). Thus, incorporating technologies and finding innovative ways to share knowledge, like the videos analyzed here, are essential for strengthening the learning process (Agama et al, 2017).…”

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AMAMENTAÇÃO E CUIDADOS AO BEBÊ DURANTE A PANDEMIA DA COVID-19: como recursos multimídias podem ajudar

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With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of coping strategies to face the stress generated by the worldwide crisis of the new coronavirus became mandatory. Based on this, the purpose of this article is to analyze multimedia resources on video format for the digital platform Instagram as health education strategies to help puerperal women and their support networks during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a descriptive methodological study based on the evaluation of content validity criterion by 21 postnatal judges, with an average age of 29.38 years. Most of them lived in the southeastern region of Brazil (n = 20) and had higher education (52.38%), followed by high school (38.09%). Content Validity Coefficients (CVC) ≥ 0.80 were adopted to validate language clarity, relevance, pertinence, and presentation of the videos. All CVC of the from the Series “Breastfeeding” were satisfactory between ≥ 0.85 and 1. With the exception of the 4th video (CVC ≥ 0.73) the videos from the Series “Neonatal Care” obtained CVC between ≥0,86 and 1. These results indicate that the target population considered the videos relevant, adequate, easy to understand and aesthetically pleasing. Accordingly, multimedia resources in video format can be considered a valid tool for the educational health proposal. Thus, the videos could help women during the postpartum period and their families to cope with the stress from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The social mediated age of information: Twitter and Instagram as tools for information dissemination in higher education

Cited by 48 publications

References 24 publications

How and why are educators using Instagram?

How and why are educators using Instagram?

Gender Differences in Sports News Coverage on Twitter

AMAMENTAÇÃO E CUIDADOS AO BEBÊ DURANTE A PANDEMIA DA COVID-19: como recursos multimídias podem ajudar

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