My research passion is about college students and how social media and technology impacts the developmental process. Unfortunately, I’ve found a lot of the discourse in student affairs around this subject to be lacking. When you attend a conference session or read a thought piece centered around this topic, they often focus on marketing, technological tools, and their use, rather than what’s occurring at a more theoretical or fundamental level. If articles and sessions do focus on student development, it is often on the byproducts of a larger developmental process rather than on how technology may be changing the process itself or our understanding of the process. I believe that faulty assumptions are baked into this framework that will increasingly be hard to maintain as we learn more about social media and technology and what it reveals about our selves. Presented at the 2014 ACPA National Convention http://www.paulgordonbrown.com http://www.myacpa.org The original slides in all of their glory... as well as more information... can be found here... http://paulgordonbrown.com/2014/04/29/video-posted-of-my-pechakucha-on-the-main-stage-at-acpa14/