Today, we’re reading Terry Nguyen’s Vox article,“Are We Ever Authentically Ourselves on the Internet?” In your small groups, please consider the following questions: Do you share content across platforms? Why? What is authenticity? What does it mean on social media? What aspects of your life/personality do you perform? Would you use BeReal over TikTok or… Read More Be Real Social Media
Today, we’re reading Elle Hunt’s article, “Faking It: How Selfie Dysmorphia Is Driving People to Seek Surgery,” from The Guardian. In your small groups, please answer the following questions and post them here: What is the central claim of the article? Can you identify a specific sentence? How does the series of images at the… Read More Selfie Dysmorphia
Today we’re reading Alice Robb’s New Republic article, “Would Van Gogh Have Taken Selfies? Probably. In your small groups, consider the following questions: Why do you think it’s such a big deal that the Oxford English Dictionary declared “selfie” the word of the year? What are the aims of selfie? What are selfies trying to do? How might this differ from… Read More Robb Van Gogh Selfie
Templates for Social Media Posts Canva Check out their templates for everything from Instagram to Twitter Adobe Create Cloud Express – More cool templates for creating graphics and presenting Tips for Social Media Check out this piece about Creating Engaging Social Media posts This piece from Team Lewis offers a more succinct list of tips.
Museums and libraries regularly use social media to promote special collections and new exhibits. For this discussion, go onto a social media platform (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Tumblr, or Twitter) and check out how a museum or library from the Midwest that uses the format to share what’s special. Once you find a social media… Read More Museum Social Media Research
Today, we’re reading Caitlin Dewey’s article “The Other Side of the Infamous ‘Auschwitz Selfie’ ” from The Washington Post. Before we dig into the reading, let’s develop some shared knowledge: What do you associate with Auschwitz? You can provide a list of bullets. Next, what do you think of the selfie Breanna posted of herself… Read More Auschwitz Selfie
Today, we’re looking at the Wired Magazine article,“Social Media Helps Black Lives Matter Fight the Power” by Bijan Stephen with photos by Philip Montgomery. As you read through the article and look closely at the images, take notes about what you see. Create a two-minute response video in which you answer the following questions or… Read More Social Media and #BLM
Twitter censors content from certain countries. They creatively call this “country withheld content.” So, if you’re from China and want to post a dissenting tweet, Twitter will delete it and post something like this: This started in 2012, so I am admittedly a little behind the times (I blame my dissertation). I bring this up… Read More 140 Characters – Censored
When my mother died five or so years ago, I didn’t know how to tell people. I wanted to avoid talking about it, about why I missed a week of classes, about why I went social media silent. Instead of posting about it, I shared the eulogy I delivered at her funeral as a Note on… Read More Communicating Loss
Recently, I’ve posted a lot about how social media shames people. In class, my students mentioned that social media creates and perpetuates drama – sometimes in really poisonous ways. In fact, one student is writing her Multimodal Advocacy Project about cyber bulling. And yet, I see ways in which social media and collaborative writing spaces… Read More What reddit Does Right
Alison A. Lukowski 