#Instafame & Selfie culture: how youth use social media to define their identity

Social media has grown to become a platform for self-branding, self-expression and even entrepreneurship (with some social media celebs making millions off their social identities). How does this impact the way young people today see themselves and their world? This month, we’ll examine how young people use social media to brand themselves and become “instafamous”, in order to grow their influence and ambitions of entrepreneurship.

Joining us to unpack her latest research, #Brandofme,...

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From: Girl Geeks Toronto

Related topics : brands using social media / social media branding / social media today / social media websites

#Instafame & Selfie culture: how youth use social media to define their identity

Social media has grown to become a platform for self-branding, self-expression and even entrepreneurship (with some social media celebs making millions off their social identities). How does this impact the way young people today see themselves and their world? This month, we’ll examine how young people use social media to brand themselves and become “instafamous”, in order to grow their influence and ambitions of entrepreneurship.

Joining us to unpack her latest research, #Brandofme,...

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From: Girl Geeks Toronto

Related topics : brands using social media / social media branding / social media today / social media websites

Christian Sandvig: Future Social Science On and With Digital Media

What it means to study society is profoundly changing as we are increasingly surrounded by and incorporated into a pervasive network of digital media. In this panel, five scholars will comment for five minutes each on emerging research problems, opportunities, and methods in social science both with and about digital media. Topics will include computational (or e-) social science, new forms and genres of social media, new methods and tactics, legal obstacles to transformative research, and...

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From: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Related topics : social media in education research / social science network research

Internet Safety, Social Media Privacy, & Cyber Bullying PART 3/4

Internet safety, social media privacy and cyber bullying have continued to be dominant issues facing parents and children today. Often children are far more computer savvy than their parents. This creates gaps in our ability as parents to protect our children from online dangers and issues that arise with social media. Although numerous guest speakers, research and information has been presented on the topics of internet and social media safety, parents indicated they needed more of the...

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From: Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board

Related topics : internet social media safety / social issues in the media today / online social media websites / social media media

Internet Safety, Social Media Privacy, & Cyber Bullying PART 2/4

Internet safety, social media privacy and cyber bullying have continued to be dominant issues facing parents and children today. Often children are far more computer savvy than their parents. This creates gaps in our ability as parents to protect our children from online dangers and issues that arise with social media. Although numerous guest speakers, research and information has been presented on the topics of internet and social media safety, parents indicated they needed more of the...

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From: Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board

Related topics : internet social media safety / social issues in the media today / online social media websites / social media media

Internet Safety, Social Media Privacy, & Cyber Bullying PART 1/4

Internet safety, social media privacy and cyber bullying have continued to be dominant issues facing parents and children today. Often children are far more computer savvy than their parents. This creates gaps in our ability as parents to protect our children from online dangers and issues that arise with social media. Although numerous guest speakers, research and information has been presented on the topics of internet and social media safety, parents indicated they needed more of the...

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From: Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board

Related topics : internet social media safety / social issues in the media today / online social media websites / social media media

Social Media & Mobile in Travel Trends

A video co-produced by EyeforTravel & Digital Visitor using research data from EyeforTravel's Social Media & Mobile in Travel report that looks at the upcoming trends in Social Media and Mobile and the impact it has had on the travel industry

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From: Eyefortravel

Related topics : travel industry social media trends / social media report / research social media

Legally navigating academic blogging and social media

29-04-2015 School of Advanced Study

http://www.sas.ac.uk/

http://events.sas.ac.uk/support-research/events/view/17575/Legally+navigating+academic+blogging+and+social+media

Legally navigating academic blogging and social media

Judith Townend

(SAS)

This session will look at the main legal issues for academic bloggers and social media users in the UK and offer some thoughts on how legal resources and systems might be improved.

The Social Scholar is a series of lunchtime seminars from the School...

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From: SchAdvStudy

Related topics : social media legal issues uk / social media blogs / social media services / social media social

TLT Symposium 2009: Danah Boyd keynote on Teenagers who are Living and Learning with Social Media

Danah Boyd discussed her research on teenagers and their patterns of using social media at the 2009 Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology.

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From: psutlt

Related topics : danah boyd social media / research social media

Contagion, Affirmation and Lies: The Psychology of Social Media

Views of how social media can affect people are often over-generalized ("its ruining our conversational skills!" versus "its going to spark revolutions to rid the world of dictators!"), as is often the case with new technologies. The degree to which social media are embedded in our everyday lives makes this impulse all the more powerful. In the present talk, we'll go over some of the most recent research from our group that examines how social media can have subtle but powerful effects on a...

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From: Microsoft Research

Related topics : social psychology media / social media research