Teaching in the Age of Facebook

CAROLYN HANK ALISE 2013, SEATTLE, WA

JANUARY 23, 2013

TEACHING in the age of Facebook

& other social media LIS faculty & students friend’ing & poking in the social sphere

WHO WHY HOW WHAT interviews

2012 ALISE Research Grant Competition

Carolyn Hank PI (UTK)

Cassidy Sugimoto Co-‐PI (IUB)

Jeff Pomerantz Co-‐PI (UNC)




Fred Stutzman,

Advisor (UNC)




Fred Stutzman,

Advisor (UNC)

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1 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

Describe LIS faculty and student interactions via Facebook


Inform social network and communication policy decision-making at LIS programs


Inform future approaches and methods for other academic units, regardless of discipline, to investigate connections between pedagogy and social network tools, including Facebook

HOW? Develop and pilot test an approach to studying …

… LIS faculty, students’ and administrators’ percepMons, experiences, pracMces, and

decision-‐making for managing communicaMons with one another,

if at all, via Facebook;

… their expectaMons for such communicaMons, including issues related to disclosure and privacy;

… and the impact of classroom and insMtuMonal policies, if any,

on such interacMons.

RESEARCH DESIGN

MCGILL

IUB

UNC SETTINGS

FOCUS GROUPS INTERVIEWS

RESEARCH DESIGN

FACULTY

STUDENTS

-‐ UG

-‐ MLIS

-‐ PhD

1:1 INTERVIEWS

FOCUS GROUPS

WEB-BASED SURVEYS

POLICY ANALYSIS

ASSOC. DEANS/

DIRECTOR

SYLLABI

SOCIAL MEDIA

INST’L POLICIES

-‐ SCHOOL -‐ FACULTY

-‐ UNIVERISTY

Q1: FACULTY

Q2: STUDENTS


RESEARCH DESIGN

1:1 INTERVIEWS

FOCUS GROUPS

WEB-BASED SURVEYS

POLICY ANALYSIS

ONGOING MARCH ‘13 APP. 17 HOURS


RESEARCH DESIGN

FOCUS GROUPS

4 PhD FGs

1 FAC FG

3 MS FGs

1:1 INTERVIEWS

3 ADMIN 8 FAC 1 PhD 1 UG

PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL

CASUAL

“CONTEXT COLLAPSE”

GENERAL USE QUESTION 1

FRIEND’ING (FACULTY & STUDENTS)

QUESTION 2

FACULTY & STUDENTS’ FRIENDS (?)


QUESTION 2

APPROXIMATIONS INITIATIONS

ACCEPTANCE AND/OR ANGST

PERSONAL CODES OF CONDUCT

UG | MS | PHD | FACULTY


QUESTION 2

FACULTY & STUDENTS FRIENDLY

UG | MS | PHD | FACULTY


QUESTION 2

consider …DUAL RELATIONSHIPS TEACHER MENTOR

SUPERVISOR EMPLOYER

COLLABORATOR COLLEAGUE

FRIEND

“… a professional tries to simultaneously fill two or more different roles.” Rupert & Holmes, 1997, p. 661


QUESTION 2

consider … EVOLVING RELATIONSHIPS

MS STUDENT PHD STUDENT PHD ADJUNCT

JUNIOR FACULTY TENURED FACULTY

ADMINISTRATOR

YIKES! The “Grocery” Store Encounter

EXPECTATIONS & POLICIES

QUESTION 3

HONOR CODES/

CODES OF CONDUCT

SNS POLICIES (Metzger et al. (2010)


QUESTION 3

GUIDANCE & ADVICE

HONOR CODES/ CODES OF CONDUCT


QUESTION 3

Facebook ✖ ✔ LinkedIn

FINAL REPORT SUMMER 2013

COMING SOON …

Hampton et al. (2011). Social networking sites and our lives. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project. http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/ Technology-and-social-networks.aspx

Metzger, A.H., Finley, K.N., Ulbrich, T.R., & McAuley, J.W. (2010). Pharmacy faculty members’ perspectives on the student/faculty relationship in online social networks. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 74(10), 1-5

Moran, M., Seaman, J., & Tinti-Kane, H. (2011). Teaching, learning, and sharing: How today’s higher education faculty use social media. Boston, MA: Pearson Learning Solutions. Retrieved from http://www.pearsonlearningsolutions.com/educators /pearson-social-media-survey-2011-bw.pdf

Rupert, P.A., & Holmes, D.L. (1997). Dual relationships in higher education: Professional and institutional guidelines. Journal of Higher Education, 68(6), 660-678.

SOURCES

THANK YOU …

CAROLYN HANK Email: [email protected] Phone: 865-‐242-‐7170 SlideShare: hkp://www.slideshare.net/carolynhank/alise2013 Slideshow:

QUESTIONS?

THANKS TO …

ALISE 2012 RESEARCH GRANT