All tagged communication studies
It started with a meme generator and it soon became apparent that this was going to be a marketing campaign us educators would be bringing up in classrooms for years to come.
I often hear the same complaints about Facebook - ‘It’s over’, ‘it’s only pay to play now’, ‘my engagement and reach is terrible’ and so on.
The app has evolved. The soul of the app is not what it was in say 2009 when we posted moody status updates and tagged our buddies in exploits from the weekend that was.
For anyone living in denial, social media is here to stay. Yeah sure, in years to come it may be a little different but with the popularity of apps such as Instagram and TikTok at all time highs, employment in social media related fields skyrocketing and accessibility as easy as picking up a phone, we need to educate rather than issue blackout bans. A learning program designed for high schools that focuses on communication and social media is a valuable concept to explore and being seriously considered overseas with Florida currently debating a bill to include social media literacy in their school curriculum.