Research: Social Media Has Real Impact In Politics

A new study by the Pew Research Center said social networking sites shape the way users think about political candidates, the issues and our even their online friends.

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From: RTV6 The Indy Channel

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Social networking sites have educational benefits

University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow breaks down how her research has found that social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace can have an impact for learning and educational growth for high school students. By working with students in a Minneapolis high school to study how they use the social sites, she has discovered that the benefits may just outweigh any risks.

This video is part of the Expert Perspectives series at the University of Minnesota.

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From: University of Minnesota

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Webinar Wednesday Social Network Analysis for Qualitative Research with Samuel Collins

Samuel Gerald Collins is an anthropologist at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. His research examines the urban as the confluence of people and social media. He is the author of various books, book chapters and articles, among them All Tomorrow's Cultures: Anthropological Engagements With the Future (Berghahn, 2008), Library of Walls (2009) and, along with co-author Matthew Durington, Networked Anthropology (Routledge, 2014). He is currently in Seoul on a Fulbright Grant.

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From: American Anthropological Association

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Kabrina Chang: All Up in Your Facebook

Abstract: You can be fired for off-duty posts to social networking sites. But now you can be hired in just the same way. The new Facebook Score and a Social Networking Report allow employers to use your social networking activity to make hiring decisions. While more than 50% of responding employers in a recent study reported looking at and basing decisions on an applicant's social networking activity, a newly-devised "Facebook Score" offers employers a five-characteristic checklist for...

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From: BU Questrom

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From: Gina Haig

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Using contextual integrity to examine interpersonal information boundary on social network sites

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Using contextual integrity to examine interpersonal information boundary on social network sites

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Pan Shi, Heng Xu, Yunan Chen

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Although privacy problems in Social Network Sites (SNS) have become more salient than ever in recent years, interpersonal privacy issues in SNS remain understudied. This study aims to generate insights in understanding users' interpersonal privacy concerns by expounding interpersonal privacy boundaries in SNS. Through a case analysis...

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From: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Mickey's Research Proposal

This is a short Vlog that discusses the implications of several psychological studies associated with social networking sites (focusing on Facebook), and how different people use SNSs to help them meet their own needs. I briefly discuss the relationships between self-esteem, popularity, and personality as they relate to the way we use Facebook, our perceptions of self, and our presentation of self.

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From: EN 103

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Big Data, social network analysis and UNESCO World's Heritage Sites

Kick-off video presentation of our research project.

We are three students issued from 3 different major in ESILV (Ecole Supérieure Léonard de Vinci - Paris La Défense).

For our 4th year project, we decided to study the tourism flow in UNESCO sites by analyzing the data issued from the social networks (Flickr, Panoramio and Instagram).

The team is composed by Astrid Prévôt (project manager), Anne-Marie Devey and Cédric Rey.

Theme song: The Time To Run (Finale)-128 - Dexter Britain

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From: Anne-Marie Devey

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Genevieve Bell: Anthropological Perspective on Social Media

Watch this video to learn how social networking sites could be analyzed through Anthropology.

Can social media technologies be studied systematically with tools in the field of Anthropology?

In this video, the Director of the Interaction and Experience Research Lab at Intel, Genevieve Bell, affirms--emphatically-- that they could.

An anthropologist by training, Bell explains to the Media X Summer Institute attendants how social media technologies like Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, QQ and Myspace...

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From: mediaXstanford

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U of M study uncovers educational benefits of Myspace

University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow has found in her first-of-its-kind study that students from low income groups are just as technologically savvy as their peers and that there are many educational benefits to integrating social networking sites into the classroom.

To view more University of Minnesota videos, visit: http://www1.umn.edu/urelate/newsservice/multimedia.php

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From: University of Minnesota

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