This document summarizes new research on digitized student development, social media, and identity. The research was conducted by Paul Gordon Brown, PhD for his doctoral program and involved interviews with 16 college students about their use of social media and how it relates to their sense of self. Key findings included that students view social media as a way to curate perfected versions of their lives and compare themselves to others. This leads to feelings of exhaustion, unhappiness, and a constant sense of failure from not living up to idealized versions of peers' lives. The research also examined how digital identities develop and relate to students' understanding of selfhood across online and offline contexts. It was found that social media both influences identity development and
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The Digital Development of College StudentsPaul Brown
Originally presented in July 2015 to the staff at Indiana University Southeast. An overview of how social and digital technology may be impacting student development.
http://www.paulhordonbrown.com
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Teaching and Training with Social Media and TechnologyPaul Brown
Originally presented at the 2014 ACPA and NASPA National Conventions, this presentation provides an overview of how social media and related technologies can be integrated into classroom and training environments.
Brown, P. G. (2014, March). Teaching and Training with Social Media and Technology. Presentation at the Annual Convention of NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Baltimore, MD.
Brown, P. G. (2014, April). Experiments in Teaching and Training with Social Media. Presentation at the Annual Convention of ACPA - College Student Educators International, Indianapolis, IN.
College Students, Social Media, Digital Identities, and the Digitized SelfPaul Brown
The following is the presentation I used to present my dissertation findings during my public PhD defense. It answers the research question: How do college students conceptualize who they are and how they present themselves when they are engaged in digital and social media?
Educator’s Selfie: Analysis and Suggestions for Institutional Social Media Im...Paul Brown
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The Digital Development of College StudentsPaul Brown
Originally presented in July 2015 to the staff at Indiana University Southeast. An overview of how social and digital technology may be impacting student development.
http://www.paulhordonbrown.com
An Overview of Digitized Student DevelopmentPaul Brown
Originally presented at the 2016 conference of the Association of Intermountain Housing Officers (AIMHO). This session provides an overview of developmental issues students in college face while online.
The Opportunities and Challenges of a Social Residence Life CurriculumPaul Brown
Originally presented as a keynote at the 2104 ACPA Residential Curriculum Institute at Virginia Tech, this presentation provides an overview about how you can integrate social media as a learning and community development strategy in student affairs and informal learning contexts.
Teaching and Training with Social Media and TechnologyPaul Brown
Originally presented at the 2014 ACPA and NASPA National Conventions, this presentation provides an overview of how social media and related technologies can be integrated into classroom and training environments.
Brown, P. G. (2014, March). Teaching and Training with Social Media and Technology. Presentation at the Annual Convention of NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Baltimore, MD.
Brown, P. G. (2014, April). Experiments in Teaching and Training with Social Media. Presentation at the Annual Convention of ACPA - College Student Educators International, Indianapolis, IN.
Social Media for Teaching, Learning, and LiteracyEric Stoller
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Intro Star Wars video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=556cQh8tQGo
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http://ericstoller.com/work
#SocMedHE15
https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/socmedhe/
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Intro Star Wars video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=556cQh8tQGo
About Eric Stoller:
http://ericstoller.com/work
#SocMedHE15
https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/socmedhe/
Bridging the gap between our online and offline social networkPaul Adams
A 30 minute talk I gave at the IA Summit 2010. If you find the content useful in your work, I'd love to hear your stories and examples to inform a book I'm writing. Please get in touch!
padday at gmail dot com
Developing Digital Student Leaders: A Mixed Methods Study of Student Leadership, Identity and Decision Making on Social Media
Social media tools permeate the college student experience (Junco, 2014), including for those students who hold leadership positions on campus. The purpose of this study was to document the experiences and online behaviors of 40 junior and senior student leaders on digital communication tools. The study was conducted at two institutions in the western United States. Three research questions guided the sequential exploratory mixed methods study connecting student leadership, the presentation of identity, and decision-making with social media use. The study involved a three phase mixed methods analysis of focus group interviews and 2,220 social media posts.
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Building Online Engagement Through Social MediaPaul Brown
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A Study on Effects and Cultural Impacts of Social Networking Sites Among Stud...ijtsrd
The Social Networking Sites are becoming vital part for the Students. Social networking sites offers students to communicate effectively and also very useful for sharing the information. It allows students to easily their own pages in online network of contacts, also called as ˜friends. Nowadays comparing to other communication methods the Social Networking Sites are faster for sharing the information. This research project work œA Study on Effects and Cultural Impacts of Social Networking Sites among Students with Special Reference to Coimbatore City, analysis the Students preference and attitude towards Social Networking Sites especially Face Book, Twitter, LinkedIn and Others. It also focuses on the impact and effects of Social Networking Sites in Students. The findings from the analysis were discussed in detail and suggestions have been given. Mrs. B. Janani | Mrs. B. GeethPriya"A Study on Effects and Cultural Impacts of Social Networking Sites Among Students with Special Reference to Coimbatore City" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd11563.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/management/marketing/11563/a-study-on-effects-and-cultural-impacts-of-social-networking-sites-among-students-with-special-reference-to-coimbatore-city/mrs-b-janani
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How Social Media Affects Our Self-Perception
By Kelsey Sunstrum
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She deleted her Instagram because she felt herself becoming depressed by it. The pressure of taking the right picture, with the right filter, wearing the right outfit, at the right place, with the right people was too much pressure.
We are conditioned to project only our best, albeit unrealistic, selves on our social media profiles as a modern way of virtually keeping up with the Joneses.
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Enter ‘smiling depression.’
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One’s self-image is the person we actually are based on the actions, behaviors, and habits currently possessed. My self-image would be of a 25-year-old freelance writer just starting her business in a house that’s mostly clean most of the time and who forces herself not to wear pajamas everywhere.
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1. NEW RESEARCHAND NEW IMPLICATIONS
DigitizedStudentDevelopment,
SocialMedia,
andIdentity
by@PaulGordonBrown,PhD
2. This Program counts towards APA Continuing Education credits.
The following program is based in research I did in partial
fulfillment of the requirements of my PhD Program. All of the
data collected, analyzed, and presented here were collected
in accordance with guidelines ensuring ethical research
involving human subjects. All study procedures were
approved by the Institutional Review Board at Boston College.
There is minimal risk associated with the application of the
research presented here. It should be noted that given the
relative homogeneity of the sample used, care should be
taken in applying these concepts to differently situated
groups with different demographics.
There is no conflict of interest related to my presenting this
material as a part of APA Continuing Education.
4. 1.Describe how college students view
their online life and the role social
media plays in it.
2.Explain the complex nature of
identity, self-concept and selfhood in
virtual and technology-mediated
environments.
3.Apply concepts of digital identity and
digitized development in educational
interventions for students.
5. (Turkle, 2004, para 6)
“I want to study
not only what the
computer is doing
for us, but what it
is doing to us.”
- Turkle
8. 89%
of adults 18-29 years old use social media
67%
access it on mobile
98%
of adults ages 18-29 are on the internet
70
70
70
43%
60%
89%
65+
50-64
30-49
70
78% 18-29
social media use
by age
Sources:
younger generations
are using the internet,
social media, and mobile
technologies at a high rate
14. “Identity” is what one is and
carries with it a series of
properties. Although “identity”
and “self” have been conflated
in discourse, they are
understood here to be separate
but related. “Self” is subject
to “identity” as object. From
one’s sense of self flows one’s
identity (and potentially
identities).
15. Question
Research
How do college students conceptualize who they
are and how they present themselves when they
are engaged in digital and social media?
@paulgordonbrown
16. Roger’s Diffusion of Innovation
(Rogers, 2003)
sample
16 student
College students 18-24 years old
‣ Completing/completed coursework in social media (half)
‣ Identified by college staff has heavy/sophisticated users (half)
Student Profile
‣ From a highly selective research university on a residential
campus near a major metropolitan area in the Northeast
17. Weekly
6%
Daily
6%
Multiple x Per Day
88%
FACEBOOK
Weekly
13%
Daily
19%
Multiple x Per Day
69%
INSTAGRAM
Infrequently
13%
Daily
19%
Multiple x Per Day
69%
SNAPCHAT
20. Pre-interview Questionnaire
‣ Establish usage patterns of participant
Semistructured Interview (First Session, 1 hour)
‣ Probe how students understand self
‣ Examine how sense is made of online/offline life
Synchronous Ethnographic Tour * (Second Session, 1 hour)
‣ Observe how students interact online
‣ How is identity constructed/understood
Semistructured Interview (First Session, 1 hour)
‣ Probe how students understand self
‣ Examine how sense is made of online/offline life
data
collection
*
(Martínez Alemán & Lynk Wartman, 2009, p. 23)
37. Student explores and experiments
openly with social media. This is
strongly influenced by authorities
(parents/guardians) through access
and peers through peer culture.
Student does not understand how
online and offline interactions can
impact each other or possess a
sophisticated understanding of
context.
Student makes conscious choices
about social media usage and how it
fits into life desires, outlook, and goals.
Student realizes that one’s online life
requires constant renegotiation as
one’s goals, needs, contexts, and
circumstances change.
38. DigitalIdentity/
Reputation vs
Digitized
Development
What We Produce vs What We Are
What Other People See vs How We See Ourselves
Can Be Taught
Through Rules
vs
Must Be Learned
Dynamically
A By-Product Of
Development
vs
The Developmental
Process Itself
39. Digital Identites
Digitized DevelopmentOne’s level of sophistication in
navigating digitized development
impacts how one chooses to present
one’s digital identities and how one
understands these digital identities in
relation to their sense of self.
One’s digital identities and the exploration
of and action through these identities
influences one’s level of sophistication in
navigating digitized development (and
potentially how one conceptualizes one’s
selfhood as digitized).
Digital identities are the different representations and
personas students take on through different social media
platforms and in presentation to different audiences.
Digitized development is what occurs when developmental
processes, behaviors, and life experiences play out
differently as a result of the influence of social and digital
technology, their affordances, and the virtual spaces these
technologies create.
ReciprocalRelationship
42. Addie discussing the pursuit of Likes:
“‘How many Likes did your post get?
What does that mean?’
…That number in itself doesn’t mean anything
unless you compare it to other posts. Then
you get in that whole thing where people start
comparing themselves to other people. That
really isn’t the best route to go down.
Is that what you should be doing whenever you
have a piece of content and it doesn’t do as
well as someone else’s?
What does that say about you?
43. I personally don’t think that that should be
something you take personally.
‘Wow everyone on the Internet hates me.’
I don’t think that should be the reaction but I
don’t know that everyone else feels the same
way. I know people that have deleted posts
because they don’t get enough Likes. I know
people who Unlike a photo on Instagram
because it suddenly now has a hundred Likes
and they’re mad about. That doesn’t make
sense to me. You’re thinking about it too
much.”
50. Hallie discussing how social media creates a
perfected image…
“I think it was cool that [my professor] asked
us think about the highlight reel. Do we use
social media as a highlight reel of our lives and
how many times out of ten would you say that
you wouldn't post something because it's not a
highlight.
And all of us were like, “Oh, all the time.”
He was like, “Go through your day. How many
things would you post, and how many wouldn't
you?”
51. …I would just encourage [educators] to ask
their students about recognizing—not
necessarily changing it—but recognizing that
what they post, and what other people post,
isn't 100 percent their lives. Because there's a
lot of times when you think that people have
the best life ever because of what they're
posting. When in reality they're going through
a lot, and probably many similar things that you
are, but because they're posting all this fun
stuff, you think that their lives are perfect.”
71. Use of Technology
Heavy UsersLight Users
Digitized Development
High Level SophisticationLow Level Sophistication
Digitized Selfhood
mulitplistic/relativistic/relationalsingular/unitary
Heavy technology usage is necessary but not
sufficient for digitized development to emerge.
One could be a heavy user of technology and yet
not use it in a way that leads towards greater
digitization of development.
Similar to physical world development, individuals reach
towards higher level sophistication in navigating
digitized development over time.
Digitized selfhood is the extent to which one
views digital/virtual spaces as an integral part of
one’s being and therefore constructs concepts of
self that are more multiplistic, relativistic, and
relational as opposed to singular and unitary.
Technology Usage, Digitized Development, and Digitized Selfhood
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Digitized selfhood was
hypothesized, but only weakly
found in this study.
Digitized development is what occurs when developmental processes, behaviors, and life experiences play out differently as
a result of the influence of social and digital technology, their affordances, and the virtual spaces these technologies create.
76. Engage with students on
social media because we
need to understand them in
all of their contexts. Be open
to a different (not necessarily
better or worse) way.
80. Learn from and with students
how to navigate the online
environment. Help them
avoid mistakes. Help them
understand their self-
presentation and reputation
online. Be a role model.
85. Understand how social
media may impact the
developmental process-both
in light of current theory and
in ways we do not yet
understand. Be able to help
students understand,
navigate and leverage it.