photo source: http://mashable.com/2012/03/02/twitter-bird-name/
Over the past two weeks, we have had the opportunity to present the findings of our research from Night\Shift 2014 and also listen to the presentations of the rest of the class on the research that they did for the event.
Of all of the presentations that I watched, the ones that really "stuck out" for me were the ones on the use of social media. This is not an area that I am very familiar with. I have little experience with social media in my personal life and definitely not in doing research. I suppose it is one of those "generation gap" issues. While most of my family/friends use Facebook, very few people in my own "social circles" use Twitter or Instagram. I just have no reason to use it as I don't know anyone that I would use it with.
As I reflected on this leisure behaviour, I thought it was interesting how people tweet about their experiences during leisure. Then there is a secondary leisure experience as they talk about it through social media. I suppose there would be a third experience which is when all of the people who did not actually attend Night\Shift are living vicariously through their friends and family who attended and reported about the event.
What strange times we live in.
Yes, I know....I am dating myself.
The other thing that I reflected on was the fact that I need learn more in terms of understanding social media and the opportunities to conduct research through this medium. As my fellow classmates seemed to effortlessly talk about hashtags and doing searches for different types of tweets, it occurred to me how skilled they were with this AND how unskilled I am at this! There seemed to be a lot of information generated from social media and it seems like the research was very easily attainable. I really can see the benefit of becoming more "social media literate" . Watching their presentations really piqued my interest in the subject and I have added it to my "list" of things to learn more about in 2015.
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