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Book Student Perceptions of Social Media in the Admissions Process

Download or read book Student Perceptions of Social Media in the Admissions Process written by Skiler Ashley Jones and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how prospective first-time-in-college minority students from a university in the southwestern part of the United States use social media to make decisions about matriculating at a 4-year public university. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with five students and two staff members. Social media accounts of the Office of Admissions and the general university social media accounts were reviewed for content. Existing research pointed to the top factors influencing students’ decision-making process when deciding where to attend college. The top reasons included cost of tuition and how connected students feel to the university. Prior research also explained that students want to see videos and experiences from current students online. The findings reveal that social media did not impact students’ decision to attend the university because there was limited information posted on the social media platforms that interested students. Students wanted to hear from current students and the student experiences. Future research is needed to continue to explore how students use social media when deciding where to attend college. Keywords: college choice, college admissions, social media, recruitment, higher education

Book Biblical Community in Facebook Community

Download or read book Biblical Community in Facebook Community written by Paul W. Perkins and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying theoretical studies of social capital, social presence, cognitive presence, and community helps researchers understand more fully the phenomenon of online social networks. The debate has moved from the positive and negative effects of online social networks to understanding how they fit into daily life. However, do biblical community beliefs transfer to Facebook? If Facebook is considered a community, does it exhibit the characteristics of a biblical community? Through a qualitative case study design, this research explored eight Christian college students, four men and four women, from two Midwest Christian colleges, investigating their understanding of biblical community and its application in a Facebook community. The research found that these students' family, church, and college experiences impacted their understanding of biblical community. It also showed that that their understanding of biblical community impacted how they interacted on Facebook. Like in real-world relationships, Facebook, as a public forum, is an appropriate place to display positive biblical characteristics, whereas, negative comments and status updates are to be expressed in private settings.

Book The One Another Project

Download or read book The One Another Project written by Micheal Somers Pardue and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Redeeming Technology

Download or read book Redeeming Technology written by A. Trevor Sutton and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On average an American spends 36,900 seconds consuming media. Do a bit of math and that's about 11 hours per day. A little more math to factor in your recommended 8 hours of sleep every night, and that leaves you with only 5 hours of your day that's media free. The statistics prove that technology use is addictive and excessive. The questions surrounding this all center on how it's affecting our mental, physical, and spiritual health. So how can you set better technological boundaries for yourself? How can you use your technology with purpose? Redeeming Technology is a unique collaboration between a pastor, Rev. A. Trevor Sutton, and a board-certified psychiatrist, Dr. Brian Smith, to help you develop a healthier, faith-based use of technology. Moving between Scripture and psychological research, this book will show you how to navigate a vast digital world while keeping Christ at the center of it all.

Book Terms of Service

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chris Martin
  • Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
  • Release : 2022-02-01
  • ISBN : 1087738385
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Terms of Service written by Chris Martin and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we use social media, or are we being used by it? Social media is brilliant and obscene. It sharpens the mind and dulls it. It brings nations together and tears them apart. It perpetuates, reveals, and repairs injustice. It is an untamed beast upon which we can only hope to ride, but never quite corral. What is it doing to us? In Terms of Service, Chris Martin brings readers his years of expertise and experience from building online brands, coaching authors and speakers about social media use, and thinking theologically about the effects of social media. As you read this book, you will: Learn how social media has come to dominate the role the internet plays in your life Learn how the “social internet” affects you in ways you may not realize Be equipped to push back against the hold the internet has on your mind and your heart

Book God  Grades  and Graduation

Download or read book God Grades and Graduation written by Ilana M. Horwitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's widely acknowledged that American parents from different class backgrounds take different approaches to raising their children. Upper and middle-class parents invest considerable time facilitating their children's activities, while working class and poor families take a more hands-off approach. These different strategies influence how children approach school. But missing from the discussion is the fact that millions of parents on both sides of the class divide are raising their children to listen to God. What impact does a religious upbringing have on their academic trajectories? Drawing on 10 years of survey data with over 3,000 teenagers and over 200 interviews, God, Grades, and Graduation (GGG) offers a revealing and at times surprising account of how teenagers' religious upbringing influences their educational pathways from high school to college. GGG introduces readers to a childrearing logic that cuts across social class groups and accounts for Americans' deep relationship with God: religious restraint. This book takes us inside the lives of these teenagers to discover why they achieve higher grades than their peers, why they are more likely to graduate from college, and why boys from lower middle-class families particularly benefit from religious restraint. But readers also learn how for middle-upper class kids--and for girls especially--religious restraint recalibrates their academic ambitions after graduation, leading them to question the value of attending a selective college despite their stellar grades in high school. By illuminating the far-reaching effects of the childrearing logic of religious restraint, GGG offers a compelling new narrative about the role of religion in academic outcomes and educational inequality"--

Book The Impact of Social Media on College Choice

Download or read book The Impact of Social Media on College Choice written by Kathryn DiAna and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media, defined as a platform for participants to create, share or exchange information and connect with others on a global scale, is emerging as a key marketing component of the college admissions process. The emergence of social media allows universities the ability to communicate in a voice that is familiar to the millennial generation, defined as those born after 1980. Using a quantitative research methodology, this project explored how the use of social media can impact college choice. Results show that 92% of respondents used Facebook one or more times daily and 78.9% of students joined a social network created just for admitted students. The outcome helps to answer the question of how institutions of higher education can best leverage this technology to influence college choice.

Book Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Natural and Social Science Education  ICNSSE 2023

Download or read book Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Natural and Social Science Education ICNSSE 2023 written by Elizabeth Edwards and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Communicating Your Research with Social Media

Download or read book Communicating Your Research with Social Media written by Amy Mollett and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dynamic, engaging guide empowers you to go beyond bar charts and jargon-filled journal articles to bring your research online and present it in a way that highlights and maximises its relevance through social media. Drawing upon a wealth of timely, real-world examples, the authors present a framework for fully incorporating social media within each step of the research process. From visualising available data to tailoring social media to meet your needs, this book explores proactive ways to share cutting edge research. A complete ‘how to’ for communicating research through blogs, podcasts, data visualisations, and video, it teaches you how to use social media to: create and share images, audio, and video in ways that positively impacts your research connect and collaborate with other researchers measure and quantify research communication efforts for funders provide research evidence in innovative digital formats reach wider, more engaged audiences in academia and beyond Through practical advice and actionable strategies, this book shows how to achieve and sustain your research impact through social media.

Book Research Anthology on Social Media Advertising and Building Consumer Relationships

Download or read book Research Anthology on Social Media Advertising and Building Consumer Relationships written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 2012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media has become a key tool that businesses must utilize in all areas of their practices to build relationships with their customer base and promote their products. This technology is no longer optional as those who do not take advantage of the many benefits it offers continue to struggle with outdated practices. In order for businesses to flourish, further study on the advantages social media provides in the areas of marketing and developing consumer relationships is required. The Research Anthology on Social Media Advertising and Building Consumer Relationships considers best practices and strategies of utilizing social media successfully throughout various business fields to promote products, build relationships, and maintain relevancy. This book also discusses common pitfalls and challenges companies face as they attempt to create a name for themselves in the online world. Covering topics such as marketing, human aspects of business, and branding, this major reference work is crucial for managers, business owners, entrepreneurs, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Book The Manifestation of Biblical Community Understanding in a Facebook Community

Download or read book The Manifestation of Biblical Community Understanding in a Facebook Community written by Paul Perkins and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying theoretical studies of social capital, social presence, cognitive presence, and community helps researchers understand more fully the phenomenon of online social networks. The debate has moved from the positive and negative effects of online social networks to understanding how they fit into daily life. However, do biblical community beliefs transfer to Facebook? If Facebook is considered a community, does it exhibit the characteristics of a biblical community? Through a qualitative case study design, this research explored eight Christian college students, four men and four women, from two Midwest Christian colleges, investigating their understanding of biblical community and its application in a Facebook community. The research found that these students' family, church, and college experiences impacted their understanding of biblical community. It also showed that that their understanding of biblical community impacted how they interacted on Facebook. Like in real-world relationships, Facebook, as a public forum, is an appropriate place to display positive biblical characteristics, whereas, negative comments and status updates are to be expressed in private settings.

Book Pragmatics of Social Media

Download or read book Pragmatics of Social Media written by Christian Hoffmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the pragmatics of social media, i.e. of digitally mediated and Internet-based platforms which are interactively used to share and edit self- and other-generated textual and audio-visual messages. Its five parts offer state-of-the-art reviews and critical evaluations in the light of on-going developments: Part I The Nature of Social Media sets up the conceptual groundwork as it explores key concept such as social media, participation, privacy/publicness. Part II Social Media Platforms focuses on the pragmatics of single platforms such as YouTube, Facebook. Part III Social Media and Discourse covers the micro-and macro-level organization of social media discourse, while Part IV Social Media and Identity reveals the multifarious ways in which users collectively (re-)construct aspects of their identities. Part V Social Media and Functions/Speech Acts surveys pragmatic studies on speech act functions such as disagreeing, complimenting, requesting. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art review together with a critical evaluation of the existing research.

Book The Impact of Education

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Witte
  • Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
  • Release : 2022-02-22
  • ISBN : 3374070558
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book The Impact of Education written by John Witte and published by Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the impact of education on the formation of character, moral education and the communication of values in late modern pluralistic societies. Scholars from four continents and many different academic fields are involved. While the basic framework for the contributions is informed by Christian traditions, the disciplines cover a significant range, including theology, education, psychology, literature, anthropology, law, and business. This makes for a rich variety of thematic concentrations and perspectives. Readers will quickly sense that the educational foundations and trajectories of any given country are pervasive and have a significant reach into the fabric and shape of the society and its values, making education a barometer of the well-being of a people and their culture. The result is a volume that will inform, stimulate and challenge our understanding of the role of education in contemporary societies. [Der Einfluss der Bildung auf Charakterbildung, ethische Erziehung und Kommunikation von Werten in spätmodernen pluralistischen Gesellschaften] Dieses Buch untersucht den Einfluss der Bildung auf die Charakterentwicklung, die moralische Erziehung und die Vermittlung von Werten in spätmodernen pluralistischen Gesellschaften. Die Beiträge kommen von Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftlerinnen aus vier Kontinenten und vielen verschiedenen akademischen Bereichen. Während der Rahmen für die Beiträge von christlichen Traditionen geprägt ist, decken die Disziplinen eine große Bandbreite ab, darunter Theologie, Pädagogik, Psychologie, Literatur, Anthropologie, Recht und Wirtschaft. Daraus ergibt sich eine reiche Vielfalt an thematischen Schwerpunkten und Perspektiven. Die Leserinnen und Leser werden schnell erkennen, dass die Bildungsgrundlagen und -wege eines jeden Landes bedeutenden Einfluss auf das Gefüge und die Form der Gesellschaft und ihrer Werte ausüben. Dies macht Bildung zu einem Gradmesser für das Wohlergehen eines Volkes und seiner Kultur. Entstanden ist ein Band, der unser Verständnis von der Rolle der Bildung in heutigen Gesellschaften heben, anregen und herausfordern kann. Contributions by Chung-Hyun Baik, Ashley Rogers Berner, David S. Cunningham, Joachim Funke, Charles L. Glenn, Robert W. Hefner, Darcia Narvaez, Stephen Pickard, Irene Pieper, Jo-Anne Reid, Heike Springhart, Anne W. Stewart, Michael Welker, and John Witte, Jr.

Book Excellent Sheep

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Deresiewicz
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-08-19
  • ISBN : 1476702713
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Excellent Sheep written by William Deresiewicz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deresiewicz takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with demands for perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications received by college admissions committees. Students are losing the ability to think independently. College is supposed to be a time for self-discovery-- but the system is broken, and he offers solutions on how to fix it.

Book Successes and Setbacks of Social Media

Download or read book Successes and Setbacks of Social Media written by Cheyenne Seymour and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2021 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media comes with perks and problems, due to easy access, ever-evolving technology, trolling, and hard to erase digital footprints. Research shows that social media can be both a positive influence (for example, students improving grades using Facebook groups as virtual study sessions) and a distraction, or worse (studies find that women are more prone to experience stress because of Facebook and become addicted to it). This book explores how social sites impact people's lives, with examples drawn from the experiences of students as they forge a path to success through earning degrees and ascending the career ladder. It presents a diverse group of contributors, all with graduate degrees, who reflect on the role of social media in their grades, relationships, self-worth, and presentation of themselves to their virtual networks.