Social Media and Emergent Technologies in Spontaneous-Volunteer Management

Educators Perspectives on Integrating Social Media to the ESL Classroom

World Journal of Educational Research ◽

10.22158/wjer.v6n4p478 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. p478

Author(s):

Jorge F. Figueroa ◽

Emarely Rosa-Dávila

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Social Media ◽

Puerto Rico ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Emergent Technologies ◽

University Level ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

The University ◽

Study Participants ◽

Esl Classroom

This article presents a study on the perspective of two higher education professors from Puerto Rico in the use of social media for the ESL classroom. It covers the millennial generation characteristics and its influence on the teaching and learning process at the university level. Several strategies within the use of social media and emergent technologies are presented. The study participants reflect on the use of social media in the classroom and present how beneficial it has been in student achievement, retention, and engagement. Several remarks are made within the use of social media for the classroom and participants expose their experiences in the ESL classroom at the university level.

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Politics of Space and its Shadows

New Instrumentalities ◽

10.35483/acsa.intl.2018.19 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Dongsei Kim ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Big Data ◽

Public Space ◽

Analytical Method ◽

Collective Intelligence ◽

Semantic Segmentation ◽

Public Spaces ◽

The Public ◽

Emergent Technologies ◽

The Relationship

This paper examines what the public, architects, urban designers, and city officials can learn about significant public spaces from emergent technologies and data generated from growing social media. Interrogating this analytical method aids us to recognize social media’s potentials, such as gaining a deeper understanding of the relationship between how public spaces are “represented” and how they are “physically experienced” through the means of technology. This investigation combines emerging image recognizing algorithms— Semantic Segmentation—with location-tagged images from Instagram to investigate the newly opened Seoullo 7017 walkway in Seoul. It argues that we should recognize these newly generated “big data” as a form of “collective intelligence” that can stimulate proactive engagement with our everyday interactions with public space. Equally, the findings of this investigation reveal to our society how to cautiously engage these “collective intelligence” with counterbalancing values.

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Social Media in Crisis: When Professional Responders Meet Digital Volunteers

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management ◽

10.1515/jhsem-2014-0080 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Amanda Lee Hughes ◽

Andrea H. Tapia

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Management Practices ◽

Research Literature ◽

Volunteer Management ◽

Problem Space ◽

Emergency Responders ◽

Permanent Staff ◽

Coordination And Collaboration ◽

Digital Volunteers ◽

And Training

AbstractIn this paper, we examine the socio-technical impact that social media has had on coordination between professional emergency responders and digital volunteers. Drawing from the research literature, we outline the problem space and explore ways to improve coordination and collaboration between these two groups. Possible improvements include mediators, revisiting trust, emergency policy and process changes, a bounded social environment, digital volunteer data as context, and computational solutions. As the space matures and collaboration improves, we predict that professional responders will begin to rely on the data and products produced by digital volunteers. Volunteer groups will be challenged to mature as well, to develop volunteer management systems, permanent staff, data management practices, and training for new volunteers to ensure consistent response to professional responders as needed.

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