What We Are Talking About When We Talk About Social Media: A Framework for Study

Treem, Jeffrey W.; Dailey, Stephanie L.; Pierce, Casey; Biffl, Diana

doi:10.1111/soc4.12404

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“…By social media, we refer to Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Internet chat rooms, blog subscriptions, e‐mail listservs, texting, unmoderated user‐comment sections on websites, and others. We do not define social media by the type of technology, but rather sociologically, by the structure of the communication networks (see Beck, 2010, p. 29; Treem, Dailey, Pierce, & Biffl, 2016). That is, these media are primarily designed to enhance personal interaction through peer‐to‐peer contact (with no centralized authority or voice).…”

Section: The Citizen‐consumer's Role In Science Communicationmentioning

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Reconceptualizing nature‐of‐science education in the age of social media

Höttecke¹,

Allchin

2020

Science Education

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Individuals are increasingly relying on social media as their primary source of scientific information. Science education needs to adapt. Nature of science (NOS) education is already widely accepted as essential to scientific literacy and to an informed public. We argue that NOS now needs to also include the NOS communication: its mediation, mechanisms, and manipulation. Namely, students need to learn about the epistemics of communicative practices, both within science (as a model) and in society. After profiling the current media landscape, we consider the implications of recent major studies on science communication for science education in the 21st century. We focus in particular on communicative patterns prominent in social media: algorithms to aggregate news, filter bubbles, echo chambers, spirals of silence, falseconsensus effects, fake news, and intentional disinformation.We claim that media literacy is now essential to a complete view of the NOS, or "Whole Science." We portray that new content as an extension of viewing science as a system of specialized experts, with mutual epistemic dependence, and the social and communicative practices that establish trust and credibility. K E Y W O R D S media literacy, nature of science, science media literacy, social media ---This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

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Section: The Citizen‐consumer's Role In Science Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconceptualizing nature‐of‐science education in the age of social media

Höttecke¹,

Allchin

2020

Science Education

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“…Social Media Platforms. This topic is illustrated by papers which explored and compared Twitter and other social media platforms such as Reddit, Foursquare, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, Wikipedia, and YouTube to address different research purposes such as exploring various definitions of social media [129], analyzing uses of social media platforms [130], investigating social media platforms for communication in academic libraries [131], understanding how radiologists use different social media platforms [132], and exploring the impact of social media on the competitiveness, structure, and processes of an organization [133]. The theme of social media platforms has a significant change with an increasing trend.…”

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Twitter and Research: A Systematic Literature Review Through Text Mining

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Researchers have collected Twitter data to study a wide range of topics. This growing body of literature, however, has not yet been reviewed systematically to synthesize Twitter-related papers. The existing literature review papers have been limited by constraints of traditional methods to manually select and analyze samples of topically related papers. The goals of this retrospective study are to identify dominant topics of Twitter-based research, summarize the temporal trend of topics, and interpret the evolution of topics withing the last ten years. This study systematically mines a large number of Twitter-based studies to characterize the relevant literature by an efficient and effective approach. This study collected relevant papers from three databases and applied text mining and trend analysis to detect semantic patterns and explore the yearly development of research themes across a decade. We found 38 topics in more than 18,000 manuscripts published between 2006 and 2019. By quantifying temporal trends, this study found that while 23.7% of topics did not show a significant trend (P => 0.05), 21% of topics had increasing trends and 55.3% of topics had decreasing trends that these hot and cold topics represent three categories: application, methodology, and technology. The contributions of this paper can be utilized in the growing field of Twitter-based research and are beneficial to researchers, educators, and publishers. INDEX TERMS Literature review, social media, survey, text mining, topic modeling, Twitter.

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“…By definition, social media offer “a way for individuals to maintain current relationships, to create new connections, to create and share their own content, and, in some degree, to make their own social networks observable to others” (Treem, Dailey, Pierce, & Biffl, , p. 770). According to the Pew Research Center, the most popular social media platforms include Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and most people visit social media on a daily basis (Pew Research Center, ).…”

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A biopsychosocial approach to understanding social media addiction

Dailey

Howard

Roming

et al. 2020

Human Behav and Emerg Tech

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Despite the public's awareness of social media addiction, academic research in this realm remains limited. Filling this gap in the literature, the current study sought to understand predictors of social media addiction across four of the most popular social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram. Regression analyses showed support for a biopsychosocial approach, demonstrating that biological (age), social (including gender, intensity of use, need for social media, and social comparison), and psychological factors (specifically stress, empathic concern, conscientiousness, and depression) accounted for over 50% of the explained variance in social media addiction. Findings demonstrate that although younger individuals are highly susceptible to social media addiction, users who manifest empathy toward others may have an enhanced psychological resiliency against addiction. K E Y W O R D Sbiopsychosocial approach, mental health, problematic social media use, social media addiction, social media intensity

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What We Are Talking About When We Talk About Social Media: A Framework for Study

Cited by 37 publications

References 83 publications

Reconceptualizing nature‐of‐science education in the age of social media

Reconceptualizing nature‐of‐science education in the age of social media

Twitter and Research: A Systematic Literature Review Through Text Mining

A biopsychosocial approach to understanding social media addiction

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