I have the privilege of sharing my time and space today with the staff and students at the University of Delaware. There are two workshops I’ll be giving which are both revamped presentations with a lot of new content arising out of my research. Hopefully you will find the information helpful as well.
In particular, one topic that has gained significant salience for me in the past couple months is the extent to which social media can impact and distort reality–ultimately impacting our behavior and self esteem. The “pursuit of the like” is an interesting phenomenon that reveals the need for online validation. This is both developmental as well as just an innately human desire. You’ll see some of this present in the presentations below and I will be discussing it more in the coming months.
For the students of UD:
For the staff of UD:
Some further resources from today:
- Jobvite Social Recruiting Survey
- The Facebook Fired
- “Social Media Triple Threat” for the graduating, job-searching college student
- Liz Gross’ Blog – Engaging college students via social media
- If you want to hear more about my JetBlue stories, check out my posts on the topic. 🙂
Videos from the presentations:
- Boston College Happy
- Can We Auto-Correct Humanity by Prince Ea
- The Social Media Guard
- A Facebook Update in Real Life
- Slactivists versus Activists by thetrachlab
Some books that might be helpful:
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