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Item The 2017 Minnesota Election Summit: The Impact Of Social Media On Modern Elections(2017-09-14) Chapin, Doug; Simon, Steve; Yang, Sharon; Hagglund, Aly; Dean, MichaelItem At A Glance: Bloomington Area Shopping Visitors, Summer 2012(University of Minnesota Tourism Center, 2012)Results from 91 respondents of 2012 Bloomington Area Survey who indicated shopping was their primary reason for visiting the area.Item At A Glance: MN Events and Festivals 2013(2014)Results from 156 questionnaires collected from MN festival & event organizers in 2013. Full report available at tourism.umn.edu.Item At A Glance: Twin Cities Metropolitan Area Visitor Profile, Summer 2012(University of Minnesota Tourism Center, 2012)Results from 1,294 questionnaires completed by a convenience sample of visitors summer 2012Item Compare Uses of Electronic Media Among Urban Nature-based Tourists(University of Minnesota Tourism Center, 2013) Oftedal, Andrew; Courtney, Arielle; Schneider, Ingrid E.Effective visitor communication is essential to market, plan, & manage tourism & outdoor recreation. Authors concur E‐travel is a major trend for trip research & online booking (Smith, 2012; Pew Research, 2012). To better understand traveler use of internet, social media, & technological devices, this project assessed visitor use & differences in use between nature‐ and non‐nature based tourists in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, Minnesota.Item Corporate Sociality: An Analysis Of Twitter Post Directionality, Functionality, And Reciprocity Of Fortune 100 Companies(2020-05) Erickson, MarisaThis study discusses the use of the social media platform Twitter by Fortune 100 companies. A random sample of the 2019 Twitter posts of 20 Fortune 100 companies over 30 days are collected. These posts are analyzed using a new theoretical model, titled The Three Faces of Corporate Social Media Use, as adapted from Grunig’s (1984) Four Models of Public Relations. According to Grunig (1992), the best model for companies to utilize is a two-way symmetrical model that promotes openness, trust, and understanding between organizations and their audiences. Contrasting that idea, this research found that companies most often use posts that are self-promotional, in that the posts carry messages that are promoting aspects of the company or are marketing a product or service.Item Correcting What’s True: Testing Competing Claims about Health Misinformation on Social Media(American Behavioral Scientist, 2022-02) Vraga, Emily, K.; Bode, LeticiaThis study expands on existing research about correcting misinformation on social media. Using an experimental design, we explore the effects of three truth signals related to stories shared on social media: whether the person posting the story says it is true, whether the replies to the story say it is true, or whether the story itself is actually true. Our results suggest that individuals should not share misinformation in order to debunk it, as audiences assume sharing is an endorsement. Additionally, while two responses debunking the post do reduce belief in the post’s veracity and argument, this process occurs equally when the story is false (thereby reducing misperceptions) as when it is true (thus creating misperceptions). Our results have implications for individuals interested in correcting health misinformation on social media and for the organizations who support their efforts.Item Engaging Gaming Communities For Human Rights: An NGO Toolkit(2024-05-01) Hassan, WajihThis paper explores everything nonprofit organizations (NGOs) need to know about when engaging online gaming communities for human rights purposes. The research employs qualitative methods such as interviews with gaming community influencers; digital ethnography such as participant observation and engagement with several online gaming communities and some content analysis over different social media platforms; and a literature review. This paper focuses on understanding humanitarian work within gaming communities, tools and methods that NGOs need to use and be aware of in online gaming spaces, and provides a toolkit that encapsulates the information from this research into a practical and easily digestible guidance for NGOs hoping to utilize online gaming communities for human rights.Item “Fitstagram”: Investigating Fitness-Related Instagram Use and Physical Activity Participation Among Emerging Adults(2024-02) Grace, StephanieMany emerging adults use (aged 18 to 29) social media and cite them as primary sources of health-related information, including physical activity (PA) information. Instagram is among the most popular social media sites, and fitness-related content on Instagram is commonly researched, particularly regarding negative well-being outcomes associated with its use. However, PA promotion professionals are turning to Instagram (and other sites) to create innovative strategies that reach larger, more diverse populations. Yet, there is a limited understanding of emerging adults’ behavior and experiences regarding fitness-related Instagram use, and little work that investigates these topics among samples diverse in gender and racialized/ethnicized identities. This dissertation uses mixed-methodologies to (1) gain a more comprehensive understanding of young people’s fitness-related Instagram use and how it relates to their PA participation and (2) investigate the role of relevant psychosocial and behavioral factors in the relationship between fitness-related Instagram use and PA participation among a diverse sample of emerging adults. This dissertation includes three study manuscripts in Chapters 4, 5, and 6. Participants (N=247) completed a cross-sectional survey regarding their demographic information, fitness-related Instagram use, PA participation, PA information seeking behavior, and exercise self-schema. Chapter 4 discusses descriptive characteristics of participants’ fitness-related Instagram use and explores differences by gender and racialized/ethnicized identities. Chapter 5 examines the relationship between fitness-related Instagram use and PA, including the roles of PA information seeking and exercise self-schema. Chapter 6 reports findings from focus groups with 17 emerging adults who access fitness-related Instagram content daily, specifically related to their use practices and perceptions of content and its influence on their PA behavior. Overall, this dissertation uses a mixed-method approach to yield a more comprehensive understanding of fitness-related Instagram use among a diverse sample of young people so practical suggestions can be made to strengthen PA promotion programs and be mindful of cultural factors. Further, this dissertation provides insight into how emerging adults experience fitness-related Instagram content and mitigate potential harm that can occur while accessing it.Item Framing Environmental Movements: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Anti-Plastic Straw Movement(2020-05-01) Arkesteyn, CarolineIn the late months of 2017, a new viral message began circulating social media platforms. It was not a brazen tweet from the President or a humorous meme. The newest craze was plastic straws, or, more specifically, the refusal of plastic straws. In the midst of an enormous amalgamation of serious environmental problems, the environmental concern that picked up the most attention was plastic straws and the waste that they create. This social movement spread beyond the reach of regular environmentalist networks and had a broad impact on the general public. Restaurants began displaying signs touting their decision not to include straws in customer drinks, sales of reusable metal straws soared (Glum, 2018), and even multinational corporations like Starbucks and American Airlines announced plans to phase out straw distribution (Chivers, 2018). The message and the movement both created a places on the political agendas in many jurisdictions, leading many governments to implement policies to get rid of plastic straws. But how did a piece of plastic as small as a straw create such a social impact? How does a straw become the center of a movement and find its way through the political process to become law? These questions are complicated, as movements and campaigns often are. This analysis seeks to examine the progression of the movement through lenses of the public policy process, social movements, and framing theory, to understand the importance of the communicative process in shaping environmental issues.Item Gaining more listeners for your podcast episode [Video, 16:27](2020-03) Arendale, DavidJust as people consume their social media through a variety of sources (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and more), people also listen to their podcasts through a variety of apps. Podcasters that only focus on the iTunes app are missing out of many potential listeners. The good thing is that after registering a podcast with a variety of podcast listening sources, it can be automatically distributed through them when a single podcast is uploaded. This is my story of how I share episodes of my three podcasts.Item Green Physical Activity: Motivators, Barriers, and the Role of Social Media(2023-05) Folk, AmandaPerforming physical activity in natural spaces, or green physical activity (GPA), could have positive synergistic effects on many aspects contributing to overall health including physical health, mental health and wellbeing, education and life-long learning, and active citizenship. Throughout U.S. history, however, largely white cisgender men without disabilities and the systems that uphold their “superiority” have made natural spaces more “off-limits” to female, transgender, and genderqueer individuals; the lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, intersex, asexual, and more (LGBTQIA+) community; people with disabilities; and Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Statistics suggest these historically excluded groups still participate in GPA, but as the U.S. becomes more diverse, greater diversity in GPA participation rates should be a priority. This dissertation uses mixed methodologies to: (1) assess motivations for and barriers to participation in GPA in a diverse sample of adults in the U.S., and (2) explore social media as tools to increase GPA in historically excluded populations. This dissertation includes three study manuscripts, entitled Chapters 4, 5, and 6. Participants (N=205) completed self-report survey measures of motivations for GPA, barriers to GPA, self-efficacy for GPA, GPA behavior, social media use, and sociodemographic information. Chapter 4 provides quantitative and qualitative motivators and barriers for GPA, additionally exploring differences by identity domain (i.e., gender, sexual identity, disability status, and race and ethnicity). Chapter 5 assesses associations between social media use, self-efficacy for GPA, and GPA behavior in a subsample of participants who view GPA-related social media content on social media (n=169). Finally, Chapter 6 presents focus group results regarding experiences viewing GPA-related social media content for a subsample of participants (n=31) who follow GPA-related social media specifically on Facebook and/or Instagram. Collectively, this dissertation uses a distinct approach to provide a foundation for an interdisciplinary team to increase GPA participation in and representation of historically excluded identities.Item Identity and Information Sharing in Social Media: A study of Political Identity and Social Media Behavior(2016-07) Adhikarii, ShauravThis study studies content shared in social media as expression of identity of the users. This study focused on political identity. We analyzed how individual political identity affects sharing content in social media. Second, we analyzed how self-monitoring can affect sharing political content in social media. Data showed that participants who held more extreme attitudes (positive/negative) appear more likely to share that attitude on social media to help enhance their identity. No significant difference in sharing was observed based on self-monitoring. Further implications are discussed.Item Increasing the influence of your digital identity and scholarly contributions [Video, 19:51](2020-03) Arendale, DavidMoving beyond the traditional publish and present model of sharing scholarship, I have expanded into sharing through online information depositories, websites, email listservs, and social media (podcasting, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and others). The new model is open source which is easily accessible to anyone, anywhere without requiring payment of article purchases, journal subscriptions, and professional organization paid memberships.Item Innocent Until Tweeted: How New Media Threaten an Old System, and a Framework for Fixing American Courts(2016-05) White, DillonThe Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal defendants the right to an impartial jury. To protect this promise, jurors must, as stated in Patterson v. People of State of Colorado, ignore "outside influences" and determine guilt or innocence based solely on evidence offered in court. Courts are responsible for protecting jurors from these influences in two ways: first, by preventing them from seeking external information during the course of a trial, and second, by ensuring that jurors execute their role without carrying preconceived notions about a defendant into trial. These responsibilities, and thus the jury process as a whole, is threatened when a juror takes to social media, as both impartiality and the ability to maintain an open mind throughout trial are put in jeopardy. State courts have attempted to curb the problem by issuing social media jury instructions, limiting access to smartphones, and even supervising Internet activity—but these efforts have done little to eliminate the problem, and juror misconduct on social media continues to grow in the face of large-scale digital media proliferation. This study outlines the scholarly and legal frameworks for monitoring and managing social media usage by jurors in the courtroom, intertwined with conceptual rationales for social media reform in criminal trials. Using a Constant Comparative Analysis (CCA) methodology, this paper qualitatively assesses the current state court frameworks in place, interwoven with rhetorical critique of persuasive appeals, in order to assess and analyze the hurdles that the criminal justice system faces with regard to jurors' use of social media. Using this analysis, this paper suggests an approach that courts might take in devising and implementing more effective instructions for social media use by jurors.Item Lessons learned in 2020 about postsecondary online peer assisted learning (PAL) groups from previous research publications and recent survey of PAL program administrators(2020) Arendale, David R.This publication identifies lessons learned from moving traditional face-to-face peer study groups to online operation. Two sources were consulted. First, previous publications concerning online peer study groups were studied to identify approaches, equipment and software used, and reports of effectiveness. Second, during May 2020 administrators involved with managing peer-assisted learning (PAL) programs were invited to complete an online survey concerning their experiences with operating online in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Methods) The individual actions, activities, and approaches recorded in the publications and the 45 surveys were broken into individual units which results in nearly 800 individual pieces of data were created and then they were reorganized into themes and topics for this report. (Results) This data analysis made the identification of best practices more clear since the frequency of them was identified. Eight major themes were identified. (Implications) Lessons have been learned from past experience with offering student-led peer study groups online that can increase the success of students with higher grades and higher rates of persistence towards graduation. It is likely that many or most institutions will begin the fall academic term online and these lessons will be valuable not only for academic assistance, but also with instruction and other student services.Item Lessons learned in 2020 from taking postsecondary peer assisted learning programs online: Raw survey data(2020) Arendale, David R.With the end of the spring 2020 academic term, a national survey was conducted to identify best practices of college educators regarding how they moved their traditional face-to-face tutoring and small group tutoring programs online due to Covid-19 pandemic. This document contains the results of that survey. (Methods) In early May 2020, invitations to complete a brief survey on postsecondary peer assisted learning (PAL) programs and their operation online in response to Covid-19 were posted to several national and international email listservs. Directors from 45 programs completed the survey. Since the survey was anonymous, it is impossible to know the institutional type and their locations. It is a reasonable guess that most respondents were from the U.S. with others from Australasia, Europe, and North America. As promised, the survey results are presented as they were received without data analysis. It is with deep gratitude to the program directors for taking time from the busiest time in the academic term in the middle of this pandemic to share valuable information with our world community of PAL professionals. (Results) Their comments were candid and honest about the things that went well and those that did not. The survey statements were grouped into six categories that included: needed equipment and meeting software, approaches and activities, program evaluation, expectations for participants and students leaders, and more. (Implications) Best education practices for providing online academic support were shared that can be studied by others as they make plans for fall 2020 academic term which may be offered online.Item Measurement and Sentiment Analysis of YouTube Video Comments(2022-11) Sui, XinyuAccording to the latest video consumption statistics in 2022, 92.7 percent of global Internet users worldwide visits online video-sharing platforms, such as YouTube and TikTok, every week. These users share their videos and exchange image/text comments to establish crucial social network interactions. Based on the existing research, users’ likes and comments are evidence commonly used to quantify the popularity of videos and social media creators. However, it remains largely unclear if the sentiment of comments, e.g., negative comments, will also affect the video or video creators’ popularity. In this thesis, we take initial steps to explore YouTube video comments via sentiment analysis. We present an in-depth measurement study of commenting and user’s comment behaviors on a sample of more than 7 million comments on 4 million YouTube videos. Our measurement indicates that Music and Gaming videos attract more feedback and are more likely to be affected by the sentiment of comments. To better understand this, we utilize three popular machine learning models and two deep learning models to analyze the sentiment of video comments. Unlike Twitter and Facebook-based research, our study proves that negative comments do not significantly impact the popularity of YouTube videos. This means the online video-sharing platforms are more robust against unhealthy comments or rumors.Item Pinning for Parent Education(University of Minnesota Extension, 2014-10) Barnes, Jessica; Jastram, Hannah; Langworthy, Sara; Routh, BriannaAs more parents are using the Internet to answer their questions, Extension needs to provide practical, research-based resources in an accessible format online. Pinterest is a social content discovery and curation website that Extension Educators can use to provide continued education and make reputable resources more discoverable for parents. Based on Knowles adult learning theory and user demographics, University of Minnesota Extension Center for Family Development (ECFD) piloted a Pinterest account in August 2013. Based on the pilot, we have provided recommendations for other Extension Educators to develop and maintain a Pinterest page for educational purposes.Item The Role of Social Media and Mindfulness in Adolescents’ Divided Attention(2024-04-30) Haig, Michaela; Martin, Timothy; Zelazo, PhilipIn this study, we examine the potential effects of a short mindfulness intervention on divided attention in adolescents. Recently, social media has been demanding increasing amounts of divided attention among its users. Understanding how to mediate these impacts is vital to helping today’s adolescents successfully retain attentive capabilities. We recruited middle and high school students at a local charter school to participate. Students were given a 5-minute open monitoring, focused attention, or control listening exercise. Then, we administered a measure of divided attention created for this study. In this, participants watched a 2-minute dual-stream video and were instructed to either pay attention to the video on the left only (and not get distracted by the other video) or to watch both videos simultaneously (divide their attention). Then, participants answered a series of questions about both videos to measure their information retention. We found no significant effects of mindfulness on divided attention, nor support for the efficacy of the divided attention measure. Future directions are discussed.