1. harnessing online
for student identity development
and positive change
Jake Frasier & Erica Zamora
SOCIAL NETWORKS
presented by:
2. JAKE FRASIER
Resident Director | American University
@jakefrasier | jfrasier@american.edu
ERICA ZAMORA
Residential Community Director
@ezamora2 | ericaz@smu.edu
Southern Methodist University
6. Learning Outcomes
Identify ways in which social media and
technology directly impact college students
Evaluate the potentially positive and negative
influences social media and technology may have on
students’ psychological well-being and sense of self
7. Learning Outcomes
Identify ways in which social media and
technology directly impact college students
Evaluate the potentially positive and negative
influences social media and technology may have on
students’ psychological well-being and sense of self
Understand the difference between online identity
and digital identity and how to assist students in
navigating collapsed contexts or networks.
8. Identify ways in which social media and
technology directly impact college students
Analyze the role of social media and technology
in the creation of a social framework
Evaluate the potentially positive and negative
influences social media and technology may have on
students’ psychological well-being and sense of self
Understand the difference between online identity
and digital identity and how to assist students in
navigating collapsed contexts or networks.
Learning Outcomes
9. 87% 37% 53%
18-29 Year Olds' Social Media Use
via Pew Research Center (September, 2014)
20. #NASPA15 #SoMenet
@jakefrasier & @ezamora2
What is one way you
have developed a learning network?
How can you engage
students in these networks to promote
productive & inclusive communities?
Tweet your
thoughts
and
21. How can we engage students in
REFLECTION
IDENTITIES
MINDFULNESS&
in the discovery
of their personal
and professional
22. Learning Outcomes
“
“College students are in the process
of developing an identity and a
stable sense of self that is both
INTERNALLY CONSISTENT
EXTERNALLY MOTIVATED&
Junco (2014, p. 116)
25. Youth’s ability to test
their developing
identities
More comfortable
with risk taking
(online disinhibition
effect)
26. Youth’s ability to test
their developing
identities
More comfortable
with risk taking
(online disinhibition
effect)
Development of
identity seems (and
is) easier
28. Erikson (1968)
Developing a sense of self which is
matched by perceptions of others
Youths’ preoccupation with how others
see them vs. how they feel
29. Erikson (1968)
Developing a sense of self which is
matched by perceptions of others
Youths’ preoccupation with how others
see them vs. how they feel
Youth are attempting to find out who they
are in the context of their environment
40. Why
is
the
anonymity
offered
by
this
app
so
damn
libera3ng
Yik
Yak 25
UPVOTES
41. “
Social media has not radically
VISIBLE
altered the dynamics of bullying,
but has made it more
boyd (2014, p. 152)
42. How could anonymity
impact congruency & identity development?
How do we educate
our students to take online interactions
off-line to create meaningful dialogue?
#NASPA15 #SoMenet
@jakefrasier & @ezamora2
Tweet your
thoughts
and
48. REFERENCES
boyd, d. (2014). It's complicated: The social
lives of networked teens.
Junco, R. (2014). Engaging students through
social media: Evidence based practices for
use in student affairs. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass.
