Turning Information Dissipation into Dissemination: Instagram as a Communication Enhancing Tool during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Ye, Sofie; Hartmann, Rafael; Söderström, Marcus; Amin, Mohammad Al; Skillinghaug, Bobo; Schembri, Luke S.; Odell, Luke R.

doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00724

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“…Social media as a learning tool has found particular utility in situations where in-person instruction is limited or unavailable, as is currently the case due to the COVID-19 crisis. In response, chemical educators around the globe have implemented apps such as Instagram, WeChat, Facebook, and Discord to digitally connect with their students. − The ChemClout Challenge may provide a framework for connecting student classmates during this remote period. Students are capable of creating these videos at home independently, with the help of family members, or potentially splicing videos together from multiple students as a group project.…”

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Chemical Anthropomorphism: Acting Out General Chemistry Concepts in Social Media Videos Facilitates Student-Centered Learning and Public Engagement

Hight

Nguyen

2021

J. Chem. Educ.

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This article describes the educational and public engagement outcomes of an activity called the “ChemClout Challenge” that was implemented in a general chemistry course at UC Riverside. Students worked in groups to make chemistry-themed videos, posted them to social media platforms, then voted on their favorite videos. The majority of students elected to make videos where they anthropomorphized general chemistry concepts, physically acting out principles such as ideal gas law relationships and electrolyte solubility. Students reported enjoying these anthropomorphized videos most. These types of videos received over one million views worldwide within the first month of posting on the social media platform, TikTok. After the course was over, 75 students completed voluntary Likert scale surveys to assess the educational and outreach impact of the ChemClout Challenge. Eighty-eight percent of students reported that the activity made chemistry more relatable, whereas 76% of students noted that the activity helped them retain course concepts two months after the course was completed, indicating the activity benefitted student learning. Moreover, 84% of students reported that their friends and family members outside of UC Riverside watched the videos, with 72% of students reporting that they explained the chemical concepts of their videos to their friends. These studies indicate that student-created social media videos that anthropomorphize chemistry are highly effective vectors for student-centered learning and public engagement in chemical concepts. This activity may find particular utility for educators during the COVID-19 pandemic, as it is compatible with distance learning.

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Chemical Anthropomorphism: Acting Out General Chemistry Concepts in Social Media Videos Facilitates Student-Centered Learning and Public Engagement

Hight

Nguyen

2021

J. Chem. Educ.

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“…Google Translations of the non-English comments indicated that students across languages and countries appreciated and shared these videos with their peers.Social media as a learning tool has found particular utility in situations where in-person instruction is limited or unavailable, as is currently the case due to the COVID-19 crisis. In response, chemical educators around the globe have implemented apps such as Instagram, WeChat, Facebook, and Discord to digitally connect with their students [33][34][35]. The ChemClout Challenge may provide a framework for connecting student classmates during this remote period.…”

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Chemical Anthropomorphism: Acting Out General Chemistry Concepts in Social Media Videos Facilitates Student-Centered Learning and Public Engagement

Hight¹,

Nguyen²,

Su³

2020

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<p>This Article describes the educational and public engagement outcomes of an activity called the “ChemClout Challenge” that was implemented in a general chemistry course at UC Riverside. Students worked in groups to make chemistry-themed videos, posted them to social media platforms, then voted on their favorite videos. The majority of students elected to make videos where they anthropomorphized general chemistry concepts, physically acting out principles such as ideal gas law relationships and electrolyte solubility. Students reported enjoying these anthropomorphized videos most. These types of videos received over one million views worldwide within the first month of posting on the social media platform, TikTok. After the course was over, 75 students completed voluntary Likert scale surveys to assess the educational and outreach impact of the ChemClout Challenge. 88% of students reported that the activity made chemistry more relatable, whereas 76% of students noted that the activity helped them retain course concepts two months after the course was completed, indicating the activity benefitted student learning. Moreover, 84% of students reported that their friends and family members outside of UC Riverside watched the videos, with 72% of students reporting that they explained the chemical concepts of their videos to their friends. These studies indicate that student-created social media videos that anthropomorphize chemistry are highly effective vectors for student-centered learning and public engagement in chemical concepts. This activity may find particular utility for educators during the COVID-19 pandemic, as it is compatible with distance learning.</p>

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“…As depicted in Table 3 below, the number of research classified under the different regions of the world are mainly ten articles from the European Regions [German (Kernder et al, 2021), Europe (Arasli et al, 2020), United Kingdom (Arasli et al, 2020;Rendell, 2020;Scott, McGowan & Visram, 2021;Fumagalli, Dolmatzian & Shrum, 2021), Spain (Pérez-Escoda et al, 2020;, Finland (Malik et al, 2021), Italy (Fumagalli, Dolmatzian & Shrum, 2021), Sweden (Ye et al, 2020), Russia (Sharov, 2020)]; six articles from the South American Regions [Argentina (Herrera et al, 2020;Fumagalli, Dolmatzian & Shrum, 2021), Brazil (Galhardi et al, 2020;Forte & Pires, 2020;Moraes et al, 2020;Anacleto et al, 2021;Santos et al, 2020)]; six articles from the United States and Canadian Regions [USA (Hoyt et al, 2021;Mackey et al, 2020;Arasli et al, 2020;Cohen, Hoyt & Dull, 2020;Malik, Khan & Quan-Haase, 2021), Canada (Malik, Khan & Quan-Haase, 2021)]; five articles from the Southwest and Central Asia [Iran (Jahangiry et al, 2020;Niknam et al, 2021), Nepal (Ghimire, Dhungel & Pokhrel, 2020), Arabian Gulf (Ali et al, 2020), India (Srivastav et al, 2021)], 7 articles from the Western Asian Region [Palestine (Zabadi et al, 2020(Zabadi et al, , 2021, Turkey (Enver et al, 2020;Atas et al, 2020;Culha...…”

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Do Not Come Near Me, Mrs Rona is here: A Systematic Review on the Use of Instagram during COVID-19

Abdul¹,

Muhammad²,

Harun³

et al. 2022

IJARAFMS

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COVID-19 pandemic infected the world in 2019 and resulted in quarantines and isolation measures that have proven to contain the virus. The isolation exercise had caused drastic changes to normal daily activities, primarily affecting interpersonal relations among humans, where most interactions have now taken place digitally. As a result of these changes, daily online usage has increased with social network applications, including Instagram, dominating the world's most visited websites. This internet platform's usage is mainly for finding information, connecting with loved ones, and keeping up-to-date with news and happenings worldwide. This emerging phenomenon has progressively shifted the communication landscape of both the personal and the business world. These entities of traditional sources are now being integrated with improved online mediators. Recent studies have also highlighted how the interactions of global societies on digital media like Instagram impacted society's education, social life, leisure, and health. Therefore, this systematic review paper is timely to analyze the existing literature on the use of Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides further insights in highlighting the extended usage and functions of Instagram during an emergency state like the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on PRISMA Statement (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses), a systematic review of four (4) main processes was conducted on Scopus 65 related studies: identification, screening, eligibility and data analysis. Of the 65 articles that have been reviewed, only 42 articles were finally selected for further analysis. Findings of the analysis revealed four main themes -the use of Instagram for research (two subthemes), to market products, as a basis for information tools (two subthemes) and for social activity during the pandemic. The ultimate presentation of this paper provides several recommendations with in-depth deliberation. Based on the review, it was found that Instagram was used for information search related to the COVID-19 pandemic and for research (particularly research related to the pandemic and online questionnaire distribution due to movement control order restriction to conduct fieldwork manually). Furthermore, Instagram was used to market

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Turning Information Dissipation into Dissemination: Instagram as a Communication Enhancing Tool during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Cited by 28 publications

References 13 publications

Chemical Anthropomorphism: Acting Out General Chemistry Concepts in Social Media Videos Facilitates Student-Centered Learning and Public Engagement

Chemical Anthropomorphism: Acting Out General Chemistry Concepts in Social Media Videos Facilitates Student-Centered Learning and Public Engagement

Chemical Anthropomorphism: Acting Out General Chemistry Concepts in Social Media Videos Facilitates Student-Centered Learning and Public Engagement

Do Not Come Near Me, Mrs Rona is here: A Systematic Review on the Use of Instagram during COVID-19

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