Social Media Course Week q Introduction Spring 2014
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This document discusses social media and its impact on society. It begins with an introduction to a course on digital citizenship and protecting well-being in the digital age. It then presents several short videos and links related to the history and rise of technology and social media. It poses several poll questions about technology ownership and usage. It quotes a teenager discussing how their social media usage changed over time. Finally, it shares a statistic about growth on Instagram. The overarching topic is how social media has become integrated into modern society.
![“I got mine [Facebook account] around sixth grade. And I was really obsessed
with it for a while. Then towards eighth grade, I kind of just -- once you get
into Twitter, if you make a Twitter and an Instagram, then you'll just kind of
forget about Facebook, is what I did.”
- Female, age 14, from the Pew Research Center's 2013 Teens, Social Media and Privacy report](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/socialmediaweek1intro1-revisedspring2014-140608072945-phpapp02/85/Social-Media-Course-Week-q-Introduction-Spring-2014-26-320.jpg)
Social Media Course Week q Introduction Spring 2014
- 1. Social Media and SocietySocial Media and Society HUM: 140HUM: 140 Ray BrannonRay Brannon
- 4. Welcome to Social Media MeWelcome to Social Media Me cclick on my picture belowlick on my picture below
- 5. Notice my page rankings are at the top. On the next slide click on the picture to find out more about me. You can do up your rankings too. This will become import in “branding yourself for future employment. Click on picture and go here.
- 6. I recommend to all of my students that they check out individual professor rankings at www.ratemyprofessor.com before they take a course. It is anonymous and reflects the power of personal opinion.
- 9. “This course will examine the best available evidence on how we can become empowered digital citizens and protect our well being.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY
- 11. let’s get to know each otherlet’s get to know each other Introduce yourself and share your expectations of this course on the Discussion Board Add a wild prediction of the best possible outcome should their expectations be met. Be specific! You are allowed to be silly!
- 12. My first experience with computers that cost hundreds of thousand of dollars and had only a fraction of the power of today’s smartphone.
- 13. For the Christmas season in 1978 Mattel Electronics introduces a handheld electronic game “Football”. The rest is history.
- 14. I had the first word processor software - WordStar, CP/M on a NorthStar Computer …so excited– today – garbage :-(
- 18. HOW MANY TELEVISIONS DO YOU HAVE IN YOURHOW MANY TELEVISIONS DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD?HOUSEHOLD? 1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 4 or more Data: Rideout, Roberts, and Foehr
- 20. HOW MANY COMPUTERS?HOW MANY COMPUTERS? 1. None 2. One 3. Two 4. Three or more
- 21. And growing if you count smartphones!
- 22. HOW MANY VIDEO-GAMEHOW MANY VIDEO-GAME CONSOLES?CONSOLES? 1. None 2. One 3. Two 4. Three or more
- 24. ON AVERAGE A PERSON BUYS A NEW CELL PHONEON AVERAGE A PERSON BUYS A NEW CELL PHONE EVERY:EVERY: 1. 12 months 2. 18 months 3. 24 months 4. 26 months
- 26. “I got mine [Facebook account] around sixth grade. And I was really obsessed with it for a while. Then towards eighth grade, I kind of just -- once you get into Twitter, if you make a Twitter and an Instagram, then you'll just kind of forget about Facebook, is what I did.” - Female, age 14, from the Pew Research Center's 2013 Teens, Social Media and Privacy report
- 27. Every second, a new user signs up on InstagramInstagram so he or she can see the 3,480 newly uploaded photos every minute. The number of photos uploaded each day is more than the number of articles currently published in the English Wikipedia.
Editor's Notes
- #21: Additionally, the Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that more than 80 percent had access to cable or satellite television. Pew reported that in the fall of 2007, 71 percent of American teenagers owned a mobile phone and 58 percent had a social network site profile.