SOC 212: Understanding Social Media: Home

• Provide search tips for each social media platform 
• Discuss social media analysis tools
• Provide library databases to find scholarly and news sources about social media 

• What do you use social media for?  Class Poll - Wordle 

• Split your team in two groups - each group takes one of the assigned platforms 
• Search examples: 
  • climate strike 
  • Ariana  Grande 
• Record your answers the exploration questions in the class activity spreadsheet
• At mid-point, regroup as a team to compare findings on each platform 
• Link to spreadsheet

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