We presented this work-in-progress paper at Social Media & Society 2018 in Copenhagen (July 2018).
Bagdy, L. M., Dennen, V. P., Rutledge, S. A., Rowlett, J. T., and Burnick, S. (2018). Teens and Social Media: A Case Study of High School Students’ Informal Learning Practices and Trajectories. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society (SMSociety ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 241-245. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217920
We presented this work-in-progress paper at Social Media & Society 2018 in Copenhagen (July 2018).
Dennen, V. P., Rutledge, S. A., Bagdy, L. M., Rowlett, J. T. & Burnick, S. (2018). Avoiding drama: Student and teacher positioning within a school’s social media ecosystem. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society (SMSociety ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 271-275. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217927
We are presenting a poster about our work looking at the tensions that arise when social media enters the school context at Social Media & Society in Copenhagen (July 2018).
The first output of our college-focused study will be presented as a poster at Social Media and Society in Copenhagen (July 2018).
We’ve just had an article accepted in TechTrends detailing the method we devised for Year 1 of our project.
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Abstract:
For American teenagers, social media participation has become a routine feature of everyday life, with ready access to their online networks via smartphones, tablets, and computers. Despite questions and concerns about its effects, relatively few educational researchers have qualitatively explored how students use social media. Complexities such as parental consent, unintended access to non-consented peers, and privacy rights may be deterrents to this research. In this paper, we describe our embedded lesson approach to studying teenagers’ social media use in a high school setting. We designed and delivered three consecutive lessons about social media to two classes. Embedded within these lessons were opportunities to collect data via surveys, focus groups, and observations, along with member checking as a form of quality assurance. This approach rapidly yielded a rich data set, while also giving students the opportunity to articulate and reflect on their social media activities and experiences.
Students, Social Media & Schools 