ERIC Number: EJ1408727
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
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Digital Baggage: Influences on New Student Affairs Professionals' Social Media Use and Digital Identity
Lucas Gorham
College Student Affairs Journal, v41 n2 p68-82 2023
This exploratory embedded case study examined the personal and professional social media use of entry-level student affairs professionals at four campuses from a state university system. Bounded by the profession of student affairs, this study focused on how entry-level student affairs professionals used social media platforms. Findings suggest that most entry-level professionals do not enter student affairs ready or willing to engage university communities on social media platforms and their respective campuses and graduate programs are not preparing them to do so. Study participants largely lacked a professional digital identity and were somewhat reticent about developing a robust professional digital identity. Contributing to their hesitancy, participants described their digital baggage -- a collection of social media or social media-connected experiences that consciously or unconsciously influence personal or professional social media use.
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Entry Workers, Social Media, State Universities, Professional Identity
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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