12 Information Studies
Information Studies (ISI)
Humans R Social Media∗
Diana Daly (University of Arizona)
2021
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Social media and humans exist in a world of mutual influence, and humans play central roles in how this influence is mediated and transferred. Originally created by University of Arizona Information scholar Diana Daly, this Third Edition of the book Humans R Social Media uses plain language and features contributions by students to help readers understand how we as humans shape social media, and how social media shapes our world in turn.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and more
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ISI 6351 Social Media
Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers: An Introduction∗
Laura Saunders (Simmons University) and Melissa Wong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: assigning sections is permitted, but adaptations are not allowed without permission)
This open access textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to instruction in all types of library and information settings. Designed for students in library instruction courses, the text is also a resource for new and experienced professionals seeking best practices and selected resources to support their instructional practice.
Formats: Pressbook webbook and PDF
Includes: instructional strategies, examples of lesson plans
Suggested for:
ISI 6371 Learning and Instruction
Social Media and the Self: An Open Reader∗
Edited by Jefferson Pooley (Muhlenberg College)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Social Media & the Self is intended to serve students enrolled in media and communication courses. It is built on PubPub, which includes its own public annotation feature. The resulting marginalia is public by default, enabling not just reaction to the main text but also back-and-forth among the comments.
One premise of this course reader is that the self on social media is suspended between authenticity and performance. The dilemma, which may be an opportunity too, is that the authentic self must be performed—enacted, with forethought and even calculation. To stage-manage oneself, then, is to violate a tenet of authenticity: that expression should be spontaneous and unrehearsed. The crux of the dilemma is the ability to curate impressions that most social media apps grant. The services, by way of time-delayed self-editing, give users lots of performative control. In practice this means that the demand to present an authentic self can be met with deliberate care. Other users—the audience for these iterative performances—know this about social media: They too tailor their posts and plandids to come off as #unfiltered. The result is mutual awareness of calculation, a presumption that the seemingly authentic is instead an artifact of strategy. This leaves everyone, from the casual user to the self-employed influencer, caught in a bind.
This collection’s second premise de-stabilizes the first. The implicit