Presentation made at the 2012 ALISE Conference, Dallas, TX, January 18, 2012. Title: "Teaching in the Age of Facebook and other Social Media: LIS Faculty and Students “Friending” and “Poking” in the Social Sphere." Collaborators: Drs. Cassidy Sugimoto and Jeffrey Pomerantz.

1. TEACHING
IN THE AGE OF FACEBOOK
AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA
LIS FACULTY AND STUDENTS’ FRIENDING
AND POKING IN THE SOCIAL SPHERE
CAROLYN.HANK@MCGILL.CA
Assistant Professor ▪ School of Information Studies
ALISE 2012 ▪ 18 JANUARY 2012 ▪ DALLAS

2. WHO
WHY
HOW
2012 ALISE Research
Grant Competition

3. Carolyn Hank
PI (McGill)
Cassidy Sugimoto
Co-PI (IUB)
Jeff Pomerantz
Co-PI (UNC)

4. Carolyn Hank
PI (McGill)
Cassidy Sugimoto
Co-PI (IUB)
Jeff Pomerantz
Co-PI (UNC)

5. Carolyn Hank
PI (McGill)
Cassidy Sugimoto
Co-PI (IUB)
Fred
Jeff Pomerantz Stutzman,
Co-PI (UNC) Advisor
(CMU)

6. SOCIAL NETWORK SITES (SNS)
59%
OF ADULT
INTERNET USERS
USE 1+ SNSs
BASED ON 79% OF AMERICANS WHO
REPORT USING THE INTERNET (N=2,255)
Data Source: Hampton et al. (2011)
Image Source: Donovan (2010)

7. SNS USERS ON FACEBOOK
92 %
Source: Hampton et al. (2011)

8. FACULTY USE OF FACEBOOK
57 %
VISITED FACEBOOK IN
THE PAST MONTH (N=1,920)
Source: Moran et al. (2011)

9. FACULTY USE OF FACEBOOK
43 %
POSTED TO FACEBOOK IN
THE SAME PERIOD (N=1,920)
Source: Moran et al. (2011)

11. STUDENTS
OR
FACULTY.

12. STUDENTS
AND
FACULTY?

13. SNSs are …
“… web-based services that allow individuals to
(1) construct a public or semi-public profile
within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of
users with whom they share a connection, and
(3) view and transverse their list of connections
and those made by others with the
system.”(boyd & Ellison, para. 4)
Source: boyd, d.m., & Ellison, N.B. (2007).

14. NETWORKING

15. SNSs are …
“… instead, they (users) are primarily
communicating with people who are
already a part of their extended social
network.” (boyd & Ellison, para. 5)
Source: boyd, d.m., & Ellison, N.B. (2007).

16. FRIENDS
HIGH SCHOOL
EXTENDED FAMILY
CO-WORKERS
COLLEGE FRIENDS
IMMEDIATE FAMILY
PEOPLE FROM VOLUNTEER GROUPS
NEIGHBORS
229 FACEBOOK FRIENDS REPORTED, FOR AVERAGE FACEBOOK USER IN SAMPLE
Source: Hampton et al. (2011)

17. FACULTY &
STUDENT
FRIENDS (?)

18. DUAL RELATIONSHIPS
TEACHER
MENTOR
SUPERVISOR “… a professional tries
to simultaneously fill
EMPLOYER two or more different
COLLABORATOR roles.” Rupert & Holmes, 1997, p. 661
COLLEAGUE
FRIEND

19. GUIDANCE
HONOR
CODES/
CODES OF
CONDUCT
SNS
POLICIES
(Metzger et al. (2010)

20. RESEARCH
OBJECTIVES

21. Describe LIS faculty and
student interactions via
Facebook
OBJECTIVES

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

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

24. HOW?
Develop and pilot test an
approach to studying …

25. … LIS faculty, students’ and
administrators’ perceptions,
experiences, practices, and
decision-making for managing
communications with one
another, if at all, via Facebook;

26. … their expectations for such
communications, including
issues related to disclosure
and privacy;

27. … and the impact of classroom
and institutional policies, if any,
on such interactions.

28. RESEARCH DESIGN
MCGILL
IUB SETTINGS
UNC

29. RESEARCH DESIGN
FOCUS
FOCUS 1:1 POLICY WEB-BASED
INTERVIEWS
GROUPS
GROUPS INTERVIEWS ANALYSIS SURVEYS
FACULTY ASSOC. DEANS/ SYLLABI Q1: FACULTY
STUDENTS DIRECTOR SOCIAL MEDIA Q2: STUDENTS
-UG INST’L POLICIES
-MLIS -SCHOOL
-PhD -FACULTY
-UNIVERISTY
FEB-MAR-APR 2012 MAY-JUN-JUL 2012 AUG-SEPT-OCT 2012
EXPLORATORY TOOLS DESCRIPTIVE

30. SOURCES
boyd, d.m., & Ellison, N.B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and
scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article
11. http://jcms.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
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
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.
[Image Source] Donovan, K. (2010, January 29). Social media heart collage.
Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdonovan_gaddy/4314365065/

31. SEE YOU
NEXT YEAR!

32. THANK YOU …
CAROLYN HANK
Email: carolyn.hank@mcgill.ca
Phone: (001)514.398.4684
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