This post is written by Ana Campos-Holland, Assistant Professor of Sociology. At the onset of my faculty status, I decided to separate my personal from my professional social media use. This means that I have a personal Facebook account from which I manage a “Prof. Campos-Holland” public profile. Since I am still figuring out how to…
Category: Social Media
Intentional uses of Social Media in Academia
This post begins a short series on uses of social media in academia. The following post was co-authored by Karen Gonzalez Rice and Anthony Graesch, with help from Jessica McCullough. Social media can be used to share, co-create, critically evaluate, and discuss ideas, all of which fall squarely within the spectrum of goals shared by…
Facing the Digital Divide
I was recently surprised when watching television at home I saw a commercial that uses the idea of “digital divide” as a means to attract new costumers. As I recall, a student, clearly from an underprivileged environment, walks back home talking about the concept of “digital divide”. He mentions that hiring a particular company will…
“Flipping” the Classroom with Web 2.0 and Social Inquiry
This is a guest post written by Technology Fellow, Ann Marie Davis, Assistant Professor of History. One of the areas that I have been exploring as a Tech Fellow draws on the practice of sociality in academic inquiry. To put it simply, good scholarship often depends on good social interface. Trying out new ideas, drawing…