Social Media Matters: Showing Up Online as Well as Ontime
Gelfand, Julia M.
Lin, Anthony
Celebrating twenty-five years of acquiring, organizing and preserving grey literature in light of all the changes in publishing and information distribution gives us reason to highlight and parse communication technologies and methods. The organizational structure, emphasis on visualization and data, new applications of artificial intelligence, instant communication, and the convergence of technique with practice offers a lens in which to assess how social media has evolved. This suggests how opinions from certain sources matter as does the reshaping of consumer preferences that often dictate unexpected outcomes. Applications for business transactions, crowdsourcing, social learning, community building and flash mobs each attract different populations motivated by a range of goals. Matching these goals with appropriate social media conduits is the focus our work. Social media today has demonstrated that eMail has given way to shorter and faster methods of communication such as text-messaging, tweeting and using any number of mobile apps to distill and manage one’s inbox. The changes in communication strategies indicate that the level of expectations is reduced and challenges the retention of these transcripts for future needs. Generational differences and practices are studied by social and information scientists interested in the implication of how data elements in social media have proliferated and beg the question of whether they need to be managed, archived and preserved by whom and for how long. We also explore the changing values of social media. In this milieu of data reuse and repurposing, the multiple channels of social media are challenged to determine maximum efficiencies for alternative solutions in business and daily life. The unintended consequences of social media misuse are increasingly concerning in the wake of false reporting leading to fake news in our perceptions of creating a more evidencebased and transparent society. Whether social media drives marketing or vice versa is ultimately what determines the prominence of greyness remains central to these queries. Methods of engagement and interaction vary depending on the form of social media and the capacity to channel different data points such as images and photos, opinions, preferences, promoting a brand or selfanalysis. This paper explores how “the reach” to target audiences has become central to the goals of accomplishing business and social transactions and what the implications are for long term learning, commerce and communication effectiveness, a sustained reliance on social media and what the significance is for retaining trusted content in a variety of environments that currently emphasize living in the moment.
 So to start off, I'd like to just do a little activity. I promise this won't take too long. So everybody, go ahead and take out your smartphones. And after taking out your smartphones, look around the room and see how many people around you have smartphones. Okay, great, great. So I would say over half of us have our smartphones. Actually, probably the majority of us have our smartphones. Now, how many of you have used social media or are using social media? Okay, so again, the majority. So this is the focus of our presentation today, is social media and great literature. And as you can see, we all come from different countries, yet we use the same technologies. So what we're doing is focusing on themes of social media for our particular presentation. So to start off with, we want to start with a definition to the issues that we're facing with the evolution of social media, social networking, and great literature, namely the changing nature of social media and the enormous task that we face with what we're going to do with the output. Then we'll focus on the interactions of social, the media, and networking. Afterwards, we want to see how mobile devices are dominating the marketplace. In recent years, we've seen a big increase in the usage of mobile devices, both in our also over desktops. So that is something that is driving the use of social media that we see today. And then finally, we want to examine the engagement and interaction of this new modern world of social media that we live in and how that will evolve. So a few things that come to mind are, for example, fake news. All of us have heard of fake news, is that everything has become very immediately believable. So that leads to, of course, problems and issues because not everything, of course, is real news, of course, and then the fake news tends to cause some problems there. And then next, we have social nomics. So social nomics is how businesses can use and harness the power of social media to increase their sales and profits. And not only business, but government as well. For example, Julie and I worked on this presentation last week and we were joking that, in the US, we have a number of libraries for different presidents, for example, the Ronald Reagan Library, the Gerald Ford Library, and we were saying that the Trump Library would be just a collection of Twitter tweets and hashtags. So that's something to consider. And then we have digital immigrants. So the best way to think of that is digital natives are people from the younger generations that are born with a smartphone. They immediately are comfortable with the technology. They have never envisioned a world without a smartphone. Where digital immigrants, my generation and older, are coming to digital technology such as a smartphone, not as a familiar technology, but as something that we learn and try to adapt in our lives. And of course, there are issues of privacy as well. And that's, of course, something that is on our minds. So the two images that you see in front of you are a vision of social media as information professionals. We see it as something that is well organized. And you'll notice that wheel that's on your right. There are definitely, there are definite boundaries and there are definite categories for social media. But the reality of it is if you look on your left, it's a big mess. So you see the wheel that's on the lower right-hand corner, but then you see a lot of other evolving technologies. And this is just to portray the evolving nature of social media. We also want to point out that you can do everything on your smartphone now. You can, of course, post on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on. You can reserve a car on Hoover. You can make hotel reservations. If you teach classes online, you can post your assignments. You can even complete your coursework over your smartphone. And that's something that is a trend that we're currently seeing. So social media, would you believe that if you looked at the middle slide, we said 4.4 hours of our leisure time on our smartphones. This could be more or less here in Europe, but that averages out to about 4.4 hours per day on just leisure time using your smartphone. If you look on your right, sorry, your left, you're going to see that social networking, social media is also used for as well. In order to get the best applicants, the most qualified people, social media is something that is being used by companies and recruiters. And then off to your right are the different ways of social media, exposed to healthcare, such as I like my local hospital at Facebook, and they go through different, you know, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on. So that brings us to the impacts on our youth. What is this going to do with the younger generation? How are they going to use social media? Are they too connected? Are they becoming addicted to technology? Is this leading to cognitive problems or behavioral problems that we might have to face? And you'll see that on the right is kind of an exaggeration of what that might become. Somebody who is removed from society, somebody who's just at the computer all the time, and not really engaging with society, not really talking to people, and something to think about. Okay. So we realize that you can't do everything, or capture everything, but we identify some trends. So here we have numerous forms of social media and how they create new ways that we live and work. Science is increasingly being asked to share a state and explain itself while creating new opportunities. The power of smart phone, as has been noted, offers a new dependency and empowerment on precedent. The spirit of innovation is widely seen through an entrepreneurial lens, and of 2017 is the year when everything changed for Facebook and social media in general. We will continue to figure things out as they are unveiled event after event. The 2016 U.S. presidential election is just one example where Facebook came under fire from right wing forces for allowing humans to moderate their news feeds with bots and trolls to utilize how Facebook's advertising power, inviting international manipulation. Social media gives regulation a different set of effects and opens doors to partners as unlikely as they expected, forcing fewer boundaries by being agnostic to conventions. A big concern is how to instill the need to distinguish between sources of information and evaluate those outputs from the mainstream news media. Without that ability, one can make use of the sophisticated digital information environments now made available. By integrating many mediums in one smart phone application and creating and sharing photos and communicating research for social media is totally expected today. Authors in all disciplines ponder how to develop their social media profiles as something published to market. The research lifecycle has a fundamental hold in multiple venues, social media, blogs, podcasts, webinars, data visualizations, video, streaming, live capturing, and immediate distribution channels for everyone who can chime in. Sometimes self-serving, other times altruistic and philanthropic. Among the most successful fundraising abilities today is crowd sourcing. Through countless outlets using online banking and e-commerce practices, anyone can start a fun, promote a site, establish a public opinion, share reviews, and immediately change the course of an outcome. Business venture, artistic expression, birth of political party, launch a new cause, celebrate an event. There's also, we must realize, the importance of the blog sphere. The blog sphere in academia today is increasingly proliferated with a number of professional blogs, primarily as a communication mechanism. It drives conversation, forms new collaborations, it is a positive influence on readers' career decisions, as was noted, and it increases visibility and mechanisms for outreach. National disasters, we know many in recent months. The last few months have seen catastrophic events claim human life by unpredictable acts of nature and unexplainable human actions. The world together suffered and lived through many of these experiences around the globe in same-time events as we watched shown how these events unfolded. Hurricane disasters along the Gulf Coast of Texas, Florida, the Caribbean, earthquakes in Mexico, fires in California, mass killing in Las Vegas, explosions in Somalia, continued war in Syria, and a threat to terrorism on a daily basis. The ability to support traditional media with on-the-ground contributions from the public at large contributed greatly to distribute the news and connect victims with family and aid agencies far faster than ever imaginable. Holding each other accountable to step forward and share photos, videos, and interviews and pallid lives allowed medical and relief aid to surface from all points of the globe. Never enough but faster than without the ability to direct first responders to such heroic efforts. Social media replaces all traditional communication channels and becomes a media choice at these sad events. Twitter often criticized yet considered fastest communication medium now has alliances with data minor to get on the scene immediately. Newsrooms around the world utilize the power of the tweet and incorporate the human touch, and the news a humbling personal empathetic accounting of what has happened and the impact on individual lives. Immediately followers become communities and news about great situations or share. And in conclusion, we think we are still in a state of transition with technologies always evolving and new practices being adopted. We see the positive contributions to some difficulties in the world, however we want to see the critical focus being on serious and meaningful outcomes rather than superficiality at the forefront. We leave you with these questions. Social media matters. After two decades, it is clear that there is a lifestyle shift to managing and transacting daily business and communicating online. What are the implications for both society and new developments in technology? Second, the archival record seems endangered. Our being has evolved based on previous experience that has been documented for forming our history. Going forward, how will future generations refer to the contributions of today in creating the new tomorrows? How do we capture and retain the methods communication performed in so many formats and will our children and grandchildren value this? And finally, the shifting realities form a more evidence-based grounding to a more spontaneous dependency on social media and continues to threaten our futures with the complexities of the world rotating in all directions. Issues of safety and security create new risk assessments that are both challenging at the personal and community levels. What arsenal of tools will we need to reconcile fact from fiction, determining the need to be constantly engaged and connected while speculating what the long-term consequences are for these seemingly addicted behaviors? Our paper explores in much more detail with many case studies and examples how social media changes our personal and work lives, blending them and connecting us in new and unexpected ways, redefining what we do and how we do it. We continue this journey as we observe and explore still more potential with digital natives, pioneering new applications in a frontier that is not just gray but inclusive of many hues. In conclusion, again, we think we are still in a state of transition and the technology is always evolving. So we ask you, we conclude that these examples are but examples and that it is unclear how much should be archived and whether value is equally applied in all cases. Yet social media is evaluated by all, by its ability to be both online and on time. Living in the here and now will be the emphasis as we feel going forward. So we thank you and we invite your responses.
 So to start off, I'd like to just do a little activity.  I promise this won't take too long.  So everybody, go ahead and take out your smartphones.  And after taking out your smartphones, look around the room  and see how many people around you have smartphones.  Okay, great, great.  So I would say over half of us have our smartphones.  Actually, probably the majority of us have our smartphones.  Now, how many of you have used social media or are using social media?  Okay, so again, the majority.  So this is the focus of our presentation today, is social media and great literature.  And as you can see, we all come from different countries,  yet we use the same technologies.  So what we're doing is focusing on themes of social media for our particular presentation.  So to start off with,  we want to start with a definition to the issues that we're facing with the evolution of social media,  social networking, and great literature,  namely the changing nature of social media and the enormous task that we face  with what we're going to do with the output.  Then we'll focus on the interactions of social, the media, and networking.  Afterwards, we want to see how mobile devices are dominating the marketplace.  In recent years, we've seen a big increase in the usage of mobile devices,  both in our also over desktops.  So that is something that is driving the use of social media that we see today.  And then finally, we want to examine the engagement and interaction of this new modern world of social media  that we live in and how that will evolve.  So a few things that come to mind are, for example, fake news.  All of us have heard of fake news, is that everything has become very immediately believable.  So that leads to, of course, problems and issues because not everything, of course, is real news, of course,  and then the fake news tends to cause some problems there.  And then next, we have social nomics.  So social nomics is how businesses can use and harness the power of social media to increase their sales and profits.  And not only business, but government as well.  For example, Julie and I worked on this presentation last week and we were joking that,  in the US, we have a number of libraries for different presidents, for example, the Ronald Reagan Library, the Gerald Ford Library,  and we were saying that the Trump Library would be just a collection of Twitter tweets and hashtags.  So that's something to consider.  And then we have digital immigrants.  So the best way to think of that is digital natives are people from the younger generations that are born with a smartphone.  They immediately are comfortable with the technology.  They have never envisioned a world without a smartphone.  Where digital immigrants, my generation and older, are coming to digital technology such as a smartphone,  not as a familiar technology, but as something that we learn and try to adapt in our lives.  And of course, there are issues of privacy as well.  And that's, of course, something that is on our minds.  So the two images that you see in front of you are a vision of social media as information professionals.  We see it as something that is well organized.  And you'll notice that wheel that's on your right.  There are definitely, there are definite boundaries and there are definite categories for social media.  But the reality of it is if you look on your left, it's a big mess.  So you see the wheel that's on the lower right-hand corner, but then you see a lot of other evolving technologies.  And this is just to portray the evolving nature of social media.  We also want to point out that you can do everything on your smartphone now.  You can, of course, post on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on.  You can reserve a car on Hoover.  You can make hotel reservations.  If you teach classes online, you can post your assignments.  You can even complete your coursework over your smartphone.  And that's something that is a trend that we're currently seeing.  So social media, would you believe that if you looked at the middle slide,  we said 4.4 hours of our leisure time on our smartphones.  This could be more or less here in Europe, but that averages out to about 4.4 hours per day on just leisure time using your smartphone.  If you look on your right, sorry, your left, you're going to see that social networking, social media is also used for as well.  In order to get the best applicants, the most qualified people,  social media is something that is being used by companies and recruiters.  And then off to your right are the different ways of social media,  exposed to healthcare, such as I like my local hospital at Facebook,  and they go through different, you know, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on.  So that brings us to the impacts on our youth.  What is this going to do with the younger generation?  How are they going to use social media? Are they too connected?  Are they becoming addicted to technology?  Is this leading to cognitive problems or behavioral problems that we might have to face?  And you'll see that on the right is kind of an exaggeration of what that might become.  Somebody who is removed from society, somebody who's just at the computer all the time,  and not really engaging with society, not really talking to people,  and something to think about.  Okay.  So we realize that you can't do everything, or capture everything,  but we identify some trends.  So here we have numerous forms of social media and how they create new ways that we live and work.  Science is increasingly being asked to share a state and explain itself while creating new opportunities.  The power of smart phone, as has been noted, offers a new dependency and empowerment on precedent.  The spirit of innovation is widely seen through an entrepreneurial lens,  and of 2017 is the year when everything changed for Facebook and social media in general.  We will continue to figure things out as they are unveiled event after event.  The 2016 U.S. presidential election is just one example where Facebook came under fire  from right wing forces for allowing humans to moderate their news feeds with bots and trolls  to utilize how Facebook's advertising power, inviting international manipulation.  Social media gives regulation a different set of effects and opens doors to partners  as unlikely as they expected, forcing fewer boundaries by being agnostic to conventions.  A big concern is how to instill the need to distinguish between sources of information  and evaluate those outputs from the mainstream news media.  Without that ability, one can make use of the sophisticated digital information environments  now made available.  By integrating many mediums in one smart phone application and creating and sharing photos  and communicating research for social media is totally expected today.  Authors in all disciplines ponder how to develop their social media profiles  as something published to market.  The research lifecycle has a fundamental hold in multiple venues, social media, blogs, podcasts,  webinars, data visualizations, video, streaming, live capturing, and immediate distribution channels  for everyone who can chime in.  Sometimes self-serving, other times altruistic and philanthropic.  Among the most successful fundraising abilities today is crowd sourcing.  Through countless outlets using online banking and e-commerce practices, anyone can start a fun,  promote a site, establish a public opinion, share reviews, and immediately change the course of an outcome.  Business venture, artistic expression, birth of political party, launch a new cause, celebrate an event.  There's also, we must realize, the importance of the blog sphere.  The blog sphere in academia today is increasingly proliferated with a number of professional blogs,  primarily as a communication mechanism.  It drives conversation, forms new collaborations, it is a positive influence on readers' career decisions,  as was noted, and it increases visibility and mechanisms for outreach.  National disasters, we know many in recent months.  The last few months have seen catastrophic events claim human life by unpredictable acts of nature  and unexplainable human actions.  The world together suffered and lived through many of these experiences around the globe  in same-time events as we watched shown how these events unfolded.  Hurricane disasters along the Gulf Coast of Texas, Florida, the Caribbean, earthquakes in Mexico,  fires in California, mass killing in Las Vegas, explosions in Somalia, continued war in Syria,  and a threat to terrorism on a daily basis.  The ability to support traditional media with on-the-ground contributions from the public at large  contributed greatly to distribute the news and connect victims with family and aid agencies  far faster than ever imaginable.  Holding each other accountable to step forward and share photos, videos, and interviews  and pallid lives allowed medical and relief aid to surface from all points of the globe.  Never enough but faster than without the ability to direct first responders to such heroic efforts.  Social media replaces all traditional communication channels and becomes a media choice at these sad events.  Twitter often criticized yet considered fastest communication medium now has alliances with data minor  to get on the scene immediately.  Newsrooms around the world utilize the power of the tweet and incorporate the human touch,  and the news a humbling personal empathetic accounting of what has happened and the impact on individual lives.  Immediately followers become communities and news about great situations or share.  And in conclusion, we think we are still in a state of transition with technologies always evolving  and new practices being adopted.  We see the positive contributions to some difficulties in the world, however we want to see the critical focus  being on serious and meaningful outcomes rather than superficiality at the forefront.  We leave you with these questions.  Social media matters.  After two decades, it is clear that there is a lifestyle shift to managing and transacting daily business and communicating online.  What are the implications for both society and new developments in technology?  Second, the archival record seems endangered.  Our being has evolved based on previous experience that has been documented for forming our history.  Going forward, how will future generations refer to the contributions of today in creating the new tomorrows?  How do we capture and retain the methods communication performed in so many formats and will our children and grandchildren value this?  And finally, the shifting realities form a more evidence-based grounding to a more spontaneous dependency on social media  and continues to threaten our futures with the complexities of the world rotating in all directions.  Issues of safety and security create new risk assessments that are both challenging at the personal and community levels.  What arsenal of tools will we need to reconcile fact from fiction, determining the need to be constantly engaged and connected  while speculating what the long-term consequences are for these seemingly addicted behaviors?  Our paper explores in much more detail with many case studies and examples how social media changes our personal and work lives,  blending them and connecting us in new and unexpected ways, redefining what we do and how we do it.  We continue this journey as we observe and explore still more potential with digital natives,  pioneering new applications in a frontier that is not just gray but inclusive of many hues.  In conclusion, again, we think we are still in a state of transition and the technology is always evolving.  So we ask you, we conclude that these examples are but examples and that it is unclear how much should be archived  and whether value is equally applied in all cases.  Yet social media is evaluated by all, by its ability to be both online and on time.  Living in the here and now will be the emphasis as we feel going forward.  So we thank you and we invite your responses.
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So to start off, I'd like to just do a little activity. I promise this won't take too long. So everybody, go ahead and take out your smartphones. And after taking out your smartphones, look around the room and see how many people around you have smartphones. Okay, great, great. So I would say over half of us have our smartphones. Actually, probably the majority of us have our smartphones. Now, how many of you have used social media or are using social media? Okay, so again, the majority. So this is the focus of our presentation today, is social media and great literature. And as you can see, we all come from different countries, yet we use the same technologies. So what we're doing is focusing on themes of social media for our particular presentation. So to start off with, we want to start with a definition to the issues that we're facing with the evolution of social media, social networking, and great literature, namely the changing nature of social media and the enormous task that we face with what we're going to do with the output. Then we'll focus on the interactions of social, the media, and networking. Afterwards, we want to see how mobile devices are dominating the marketplace. In recent years, we've seen a big increase in the usage of mobile devices, both in our also over desktops. So that is something that is driving the use of social media that we see today. And then finally, we want to examine the engagement and interaction of this new modern world of social media that we live in and how that will evolve. So a few things that come to mind are, for example, fake news. All of us have heard of fake news, is that everything has become very immediately believable. So that leads to, of course, problems and issues because not everything, of course, is real news, of course, and then the fake news tends to cause some problems there. And then next, we have social nomics. So social nomics is how businesses can use and harness the power of social media to increase their sales and profits. And not only business, but government as well. For example, Julie and I worked on this presentation last week and we were joking that, in the US, we have a number of libraries for different presidents, for example, the Ronald Reagan Library, the Gerald Ford Library, and we were saying that the Trump Library would be just a collection of Twitter tweets and hashtags. So that's something to consider. And then we have digital immigrants. So the best way to think of that is digital natives are people from the younger generations that are born with a smartphone. They immediately are comfortable with the technology. They have never envisioned a world without a smartphone. Where digital immigrants, my generation and older, are coming to digital technology such as a smartphone, not as a familiar technology, but as something that we learn and try to adapt in our lives. And of course, there are issues of privacy as well. And that's, of course, something that is on our minds. So the two images that you see in front of you are a vision of social media as information professionals. We see it as something that is well organized. And you'll notice that wheel that's on your right. There are definitely, there are definite boundaries and there are definite categories for social media. But the reality of it is if you look on your left, it's a big mess. So you see the wheel that's on the lower right-hand corner, but then you see a lot of other evolving technologies. And this is just to portray the evolving nature of social media. We also want to point out that you can do everything on your smartphone now. You can, of course, post on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on. You can reserve a car on Hoover. You can make hotel reservations. If you teach classes online, you can post your assignments. You can even complete your coursework over your smartphone. And that's something that is a trend that we're currently seeing. So social media, would you believe that if you looked at the middle slide, we said 4.4 hours of our leisure time on our smartphones. This could be more or less here in Europe, but that averages out to about 4.4 hours per day on just leisure time using your smartphone. If you look on your right, sorry, your left, you're going to see that social networking, social media is also used for as well. In order to get the best applicants, the most qualified people, social media is something that is being used by companies and recruiters. And then off to your right are the different ways of social media, exposed to healthcare, such as I like my local hospital at Facebook, and they go through different, you know, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on. So that brings us to the impacts on our youth. What is this going to do with the younger generation? How are they going to use social media? Are they too connected? Are they becoming addicted to technology? Is this leading to cognitive problems or behavioral problems that we might have to face? And you'll see that on the right is kind of an exaggeration of what that might become. Somebody who is removed from society, somebody who's just at the computer all the time, and not really engaging with society, not really talking to people, and something to think about. Okay. So we realize that you can't do everything, or capture everything, but we identify some trends. So here we have numerous forms of social media and how they create new ways that we live and work. Science is increasingly being asked to share a state and explain itself while creating new opportunities. The power of smart phone, as has been noted, offers a new dependency and empowerment on precedent. The spirit of innovation is widely seen through an entrepreneurial lens, and of 2017 is the year when everything changed for Facebook and social media in general. We will continue to figure things out as they are unveiled event after event. The 2016 U.S. presidential election is just one example where Facebook came under fire from right wing forces for allowing humans to moderate their news feeds with bots and trolls to utilize how Facebook's advertising power, inviting international manipulation. Social media gives regulation a different set of effects and opens doors to partners as unlikely as they expected, forcing fewer boundaries by being agnostic to conventions. A big concern is how to instill the need to distinguish between sources of information and evaluate those outputs from the mainstream news media. Without that ability, one can make use of the sophisticated digital information environments now made available. By integrating many mediums in one smart phone application and creating and sharing photos and communicating research for social media is totally expected today. Authors in all disciplines ponder how to develop their social media profiles as something published to market. The research lifecycle has a fundamental hold in multiple venues, social media, blogs, podcasts, webinars, data visualizations, video, streaming, live capturing, and immediate distribution channels for everyone who can chime in. Sometimes self-serving, other times altruistic and philanthropic. Among the most successful fundraising abilities today is crowd sourcing. Through countless outlets using online banking and e-commerce practices, anyone can start a fun, promote a site, establish a public opinion, share reviews, and immediately change the course of an outcome. Business venture, artistic expression, birth of political party, launch a new cause, celebrate an event. There's also, we must realize, the importance of the blog sphere. The blog sphere in academia today is increasingly proliferated with a number of professional blogs, primarily as a communication mechanism. It drives conversation, forms new collaborations, it is a positive influence on readers' career decisions, as was noted, and it increases visibility and mechanisms for outreach. National disasters, we know many in recent months. The last few months have seen catastrophic events claim human life by unpredictable acts of nature and unexplainable human actions. The world together suffered and lived through many of these experiences around the globe in same-time events as we watched shown how these events unfolded. Hurricane disasters along the Gulf Coast of Texas, Florida, the Caribbean, earthquakes in Mexico, fires in California, mass killing in Las Vegas, explosions in Somalia, continued war in Syria, and a threat to terrorism on a daily basis. The ability to support traditional media with on-the-ground contributions from the public at large contributed greatly to distribute the news and connect victims with family and aid agencies far faster than ever imaginable. Holding each other accountable to step forward and share photos, videos, and interviews and pallid lives allowed medical and relief aid to surface from all points of the globe. Never enough but faster than without the ability to direct first responders to such heroic efforts. Social media replaces all traditional communication channels and becomes a media choice at these sad events. Twitter often criticized yet considered fastest communication medium now has alliances with data minor to get on the scene immediately. Newsrooms around the world utilize the power of the tweet and incorporate the human touch, and the news a humbling personal empathetic accounting of what has happened and the impact on individual lives. Immediately followers become communities and news about great situations or share. And in conclusion, we think we are still in a state of transition with technologies always evolving and new practices being adopted. We see the positive contributions to some difficulties in the world, however we want to see the critical focus being on serious and meaningful outcomes rather than superficiality at the forefront. We leave you with these questions. Social media matters. After two decades, it is clear that there is a lifestyle shift to managing and transacting daily business and communicating online. What are the implications for both society and new developments in technology? Second, the archival record seems endangered. Our being has evolved based on previous experience that has been documented for forming our history. Going forward, how will future generations refer to the contributions of today in creating the new tomorrows? How do we capture and retain the methods communication performed in so many formats and will our children and grandchildren value this? And finally, the shifting realities form a more evidence-based grounding to a more spontaneous dependency on social media and continues to threaten our futures with the complexities of the world rotating in all directions. Issues of safety and security create new risk assessments that are both challenging at the personal and community levels. What arsenal of tools will we need to reconcile fact from fiction, determining the need to be constantly engaged and connected while speculating what the long-term consequences are for these seemingly addicted behaviors? Our paper explores in much more detail with many case studies and examples how social media changes our personal and work lives, blending them and connecting us in new and unexpected ways, redefining what we do and how we do it. We continue this journey as we observe and explore still more potential with digital natives, pioneering new applications in a frontier that is not just gray but inclusive of many hues. In conclusion, again, we think we are still in a state of transition and the technology is always evolving. So we ask you, we conclude that these examples are but examples and that it is unclear how much should be archived and whether value is equally applied in all cases. Yet social media is evaluated by all, by its ability to be both online and on time. Living in the here and now will be the emphasis as we feel going forward. So we thank you and we invite your responses.
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