Social media education in communication faculties

Integrating Social Media in Education

In their article "Integrating Social Media in Education" Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe and Pieter Verdegem propose a framework in order to integrate social media literacy in an educational setting. In today's networked society students are new media users and hence the relevance in curricula to include social media literacy. Vanwynsberghe and Verdegem propose a multidimensional conceptual framework o...

Social Media and Microbiology Education

Social media consists of Internet technologies that allow users to create and share content, and to foster dialogues among other users. Examples include software applications for communication (blogging, social networking, discussion forums), collaboration (wikis, social bookmarking), and multimedia (sharing photographs, video, and livecasting). In the world of science, social media is becoming...

Advancing social media in medical education.

Social Goals in Communication Media Choice

Choice of communication media is an important topic in Information Systems research. To complement the prevailing research which focuses on the effective delivery of message through communication media, this research regards communication as a way to accomplish social exchanges. Because communication media vary in their capacity to deliver nonverbal cues, they vary in their capacity to produce ...

Guest editorial: social media in scholarly communication

[email protected] 1 École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI), Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC (Canada) 2 School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (USA) 3 Observatoire des Sciences et des Technologies (OST), Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), Université du Québec à Montréal, M...