Abstract
This introductory chapter begins to explore why education needs to carefully explore, understand, and engage with social media. Through a sustained comparison with Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, this chapter unpacks why there is a need for educators, educational research, and educational policy makers to more carefully examine social media rather than rely upon engrained assumptions. In particular, this chapter asks educational professionals to pay attention to critical sociological understandings of social media. The chapter then moves on to introduce the participants of the research detailed in this book, discussing why they were selected and why there is a compelling ethical responsibility and need to move beyond the focus on public data collection that is ever-present in digital research. Finally, this chapter concludes by introducing the remaining chapters of this book.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Barnes, R. (2015). Understanding the affective investment produced through commenting on Australian alternative journalism website new Matilda. New Media & Society, 17(5), 810–826.
boyd, d. (2015). Social media: A phenomenon to be analyzed. Social Media + Society, April–June 2015, 1–2.
Bright, J., Margetts, H., Hale, S., & Yasseri, T. (2014). The use of social media for research and analysis: A feasibility study. A report of research carried out by the Oxford Internet Institute on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Cho, A. (2018). Default publicness: Queer youth of color, social media, and being outed by the machine. New Media & Society, 20(9), 3183–3200.
Crawford, K., & boyd, D. (2012). Critical questions for big data. Information, Communication & Society, 15(9), 662–679.
Ditchfield, H. (2019). Behind the screen of Facebook: Identity construction in the rehearsal stage of online interaction. New Media & Society, 2019, 1–19.
Dwyer, C., Hiltz, S. R., & Passerini, K. (2007). Trust and privacy concern within social networking sites: A comparison of Facebook and MySpace. In AMCIS 2007 (paper 339).
Emejulu, A., & Mcgregor, C. (2019). Towards a radical digital citizenship in digital education. Critical Studies in Education, 60(1), 131–147.
Fairfield, J., & Shtein, H. (2014). Big data, big problems: Emerging issues in the ethics of data science and journalism. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 29(1), 38–51.
Kafka, F. (1915). The metamorphosis (W. Muir & E. Muir, Trans.). Franz Kafka: The complete short stories. London: Vintage, 2005.
Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing ethnographic research online. London: Sage.
Kramer, A. D. I., Guillory, J. E., & Hancock, J. T. (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(24), 8788–8790.
Waskul, D., & Douglass, M. (1996). Considering the electronic participant: Some polemical observations on the ethics of on-line research. The Information Society, 12(2), 129–140.
Weller, K. (2016). Trying to understand social media users and usage: The forgotten features of social media platforms. Online Information Review, 40(2), 256–264.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Dyer, H.T. (2020). The Digital Metamorphosis. In: Designing the Social. Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, vol 11. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5716-3_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5716-3_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-15-5715-6
Online ISBN: 978-981-15-5716-3
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media StudiesLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)