The first reading today focused on social media and how its
uses and prevalence in today’s society is rapidly growing. Millions of people
use twitter to communicate and it is quite possibly the most widely used form
of communication online today. The article discusses how teachers can use
twitter to communicate with their students and provides some basic guidelines
on the dos and don’ts of doing it. I believe that twitter is an effective tool
for communication between teachers and students and efforts should by made on
both ends to use it.
The second article discuses how social media can be used to
further the goals of public historians. Museums are quickly growing their use
of social media outlets such as Facebook and twitter. I believe that these
social mediums can help to expand the audience of these institutions. Because
of their popularity today they can help bring public history to a much wider
audience.
The third article talks about how sifting through all of the
information that people put on social media websites. It is a difficult task
because there are millions of tweets and Facebook posts everyday. They can
however be used to understand what people at the time are thinking and how they
respond to the events of their time. In this way they are a very useful
historical resource. Charts and graphs can add a visual component to this
research. I believe that chronicling everyone’s social media posts has many
benefits to the discipline of history.
The final reading talks about how Clemson University has established
a social media listening center with help from Dell. I think this was a great
move for the university because social media is the future of communication. It
was an excellent idea for Clemson to do so because it will help the university
remain relevant in the field of social media. Chronicling people’s social media
posts will almost undoubtedly prove to be historically useful sometime in the
near future.
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