Successes and Setbacks of Social Media
Impact onAcademic Life
Edited by Cheyenne Seymour
This edition first published 2021
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Names: Seymour, Cheyenne, 1984- editor. | John Wiley & Sons, Inc., publisher.
Title: Successes and setbacks of social media : impact on academic life / edited by Cheyenne Seymour, Bronx Community College, Bronx, USA.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020046801 (print) | LCCN 2020046802 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119695189 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119695196 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119695219 (epub) | ISBN 9781119695233 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Education, Higher—Effect of technological innovations on. | Social media in education.
Classification: LCC LB2395.7 .S88 2021 (print) | LCC LB2395.7 (ebook) | DDC 378.1/7344678—dc23
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Table of Contents
1 Cover
4 List of Contributors
5 Biography
6 Introduction: Pervasiveness of Social Media in Higher Education
7 Part I Academics1 Grades: Smiling Face EmojiIntroductionSocial Media and Civic Engagement in the College Classroom: Reflections on a Social Media Campaign Promoting Diversity and InclusionPosting for Progress#Isucceed: Impact of Social Media on Academic Success in Higher Education Programs2 Grades: Worried Face EmojiIntroductionYou Don’t Belong HereChange the Perspective: Online Distraction to Recharging OnlineTo Be Liked: Social Media’s Impact on African Americans in Academia
8 Part II Authenticity and Facades3 #NoFilterIntroductionCommunity and Labor: The Affordances and Constraints of Social MediaAuthoring Authenticity Through Social MediaHashtags as Identity: Black Male Authenticity Online4 There’s a Filter for ThatIntroductionRewriting One’s College Experience with Social MediaSocial Networking: From Invasion of Privacy to True SelfYou Are Not Your Brand: Confronting the Spiritual Perils of Social Media
9 Part III Relationships5 We Are ConnectedIntroductionSocial Media: From Deleted to Private, Private to Public ProfilesIt takes a Village: Facebook Group Supports #PhDMommySocial Media Network: Contribution to Success6 It’s ComplicatedIntroductionFake News and Family: Here’s How to get ResultsAvoiding Social Media in Grad School: Not Here for the CommentsFar Away and Far From: Fickle Relationship with Long-Distance Support Structures
10 Part IV Self-Esteem7 I Would Follow MeIntroductionFacebook Friends and Law SchoolThe Courage of Vulnerability as a Pedagogical Tool for Emancipatory Education in Feminist Social WorkA Novel Perspective on Social Media8 Unfollowing MyselfIntroductionThe Balancing Act: The Accumulating Pressures of Social Media and SuccessBodies, Images: The Impact of Social Media on Body ImageDrawing Comparisons: Social Media, Impostor Syndrome, and Socialization
11 Part V Looking AheadSocial Media Influencing Higher EducationIndexEnd User License Agreement
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