Student Affairs Professionals on Facebook: An Empirical Look

Eaton, Paul William; Pasquini, Laura A.; Ahlquist, Josie; Gismondi, Adam

doi:10.1080/19496591.2020.1727343

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“…Posts announcing Student or Staff News have the highest reach and engagement rates of all categories; students use the page to keep abreast of and celebrate the successes of their peers. This is consistent with the analysis of Eaton et al, 18 who reported that Facebook groups can be used to openly share motivation and social support for colleagues, and so foster professional and personal social cohesion. The C21 FBP also promotes student participation in university activity beyond the confines of online networks; more than one in five respondents to our study had joined a student club or activity advertised on the page.…”

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“…Although there is an existent body of literature describing the use of social media by academic organisations, research into the perspectives of those using these platforms is limited. In March 2020, Eaton et al called for qualitative inquiry into the experiences of users of professional organisations' Facebook pages; 18 our study answers this call by combining analytical page data with input from current users on how they perceive and engage with one such page, the C21 FBP.…”

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Roles and Functions of a Non-Academic Medical School Facebook Page from the Student Perspective: A Study of Usage and Survey Data

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Background: Facebook is a well-established social networking platform that is commonly used by medical schools as an educational resource, but there are few studies assessing the roles of a non-academic Facebook page in medical education. Cardiff University uses Facebook primarily as a student support and engagement platform through its ‘C21’ Facebook Page; this study aimed to explore the use of the page by students, as well as their perceptions on the value of the page and the appropriateness of social media use by the medical school. Methods:Authors collected and analyzed C21 Facebook Page usage data to obtain descriptive information on reach, engagement and content. They also distributed an anonymized survey to evaluate and explore users’ interest in, experience of and engagement with the content. Results: Of the 1021 posts on the page in 2019, the highest post-engagement rate occurred in the?Student or Staff News?category (13.5%) and the lowest in?Medical Research News?(3.5%). Survey feedback on the page was overwhelmingly positive (n=89; 84.8%), and respondents reported a high degree of trust (n=95; 90.5%) in the page. Students would like to see more ‘Curriculum Vitae (CV)-building’ Opportunities advertised on the page. Conclusion:The C21 Facebook Page is an important resource in developing community within the medical school and facilitating student engagement with both the C21 course and wider medical opportunities. It is perceived as an appropriate channel of communication between the medical school and students.

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Roles and Functions of a Non-Academic Medical School Facebook Page from the Student Perspective: A Study of Usage and Survey Data

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“…First, the interview transcripts were loaded in Dedoose (version 8.1.21), a qualitative analysis software application, and codes were applied to identify specific concepts, ideas, and meaning. Codes were identified through an iterative process that included reviewing a subsample of themes across previously collected data, including a survey about networked practices (Eaton and Pasquini, 2020b) and open axial coding of 12 interviews (Eaton and Pasquini, 2020a). A codebook of 124 codes was finalized.…”

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Being/becoming professional online: Wayfinding through networked practices and digital experiences

Pasquini

Eaton

2020

New Media & Society

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Social media platforms and digital networks have enabled professionals to communicate with colleagues, disseminate information, and co-create knowledge. As the Internet has grown up and social networks have scaled, there is an increased awareness of the occupational impact of being online. Prior research in postsecondary education has examined the structure of social networks, imagined audiences online, openness of practice, and informational/communication patterns of academics. We conducted 92 semi-structured interviews with higher educational professionals beyond the faculty/academic role to understand motivations and challenges online. Participants shared how they navigate digital identity and contribute to networked practices in professional online communities. Multiple factors influence and impact the use of social media over time, specifically as professionals reflect on their digital presence, network affiliations, and informal learning opportunities. We identify seven networked practices: kinship in community, self-directed learning, digital norms, navigating context collapse, career advancement, reputation management, and risk versus reward assessment.

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“…To that point, in the field of education, the development of effective means of using IT is not possible without the formation of a sustainable media culture among university students. Thus, Eaton et al (2021) consider the use of social networks and messengers by students for educational purposes. The researchers were particularly interested in the use of Facebook.…”

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The Impact of Media Culture on Future Professionals’ Training

Tatarnikova¹,

Oleshko²,

Voronovska³

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The relevance of the research is substantiated by the fact that the information society can be addressed as a stage in the modern civilization formation, which is characterized by the increasing role of knowledge, information, as well as information processing technologies. The number of people employed in the information sphere is growing steadily. The information products and information services are gaining additional shares in the market. It is specifically the prerequisites for a future specialist to have high media and cultural competence to tackle current challenges. The research aims to ascertain experimentally the pedagogical conditions for media culture formation and its impact on future professionals’ training. The study was conducted using such tools as questionnaires and testing. Diagnosis of cognitive interest (according to N. Kuzmina’s scale), the scale for assessing students' operational skills (according to M. Chobitko), Pearson's criterion (chi-square). In the experimental group, only 1.9% of students at the control stage of the experiment corresponded to the low level of media culture according to the cognitive criterion, while in the control group there were 18.4% f students. However, in the experimental group at the control stage of the experiment more than 61% of respondents yielded a high level of media culture according to the cognitive criterion. That said, in the experimental group only 1.9% respondents at the control stage of the experiment corresponded to a low level of media culture according to the cognitive criterion. The obtained results give grounds to argue that media culture formation has a positive effect on the future professionals’ training. This is due to the fact that media culture is underlying the general professional competence of the XXI century specialist. The enhancement of the students training through the use of new information and Internet technologies has all chances to be one of the prospects for further research in the relative to the issue addressed.

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Student Affairs Professionals on Facebook: An Empirical Look

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Roles and Functions of a Non-Academic Medical School Facebook Page from the Student Perspective: A Study of Usage and Survey Data

Roles and Functions of a Non-Academic Medical School Facebook Page from the Student Perspective: A Study of Usage and Survey Data

Being/becoming professional online: Wayfinding through networked practices and digital experiences

The Impact of Media Culture on Future Professionals’ Training

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