Keith N Hampton
@mysocnet
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Professor, Media & Information, Michigan State University
Joined September 2008
Key findings on rural students pre-post pandemic: .✔️self-esteem returns to pre-pandemic levels .✔️sharp drop in education asperations.✔️ interest in STEM careers drop.✔️learning from home over COVID-19 pandemic boosted digital skills.✔️rural access inequalities are now reversing.
A new study from researchers @michiganstateu shows one in three, or 32.5%, of rural students in Michigan still lack adequate, fast broadband home internet. Read the story ➡️ . @jm_bauer, @mysocnet, @GabeHales, @MediaInfoMSU, @QuelloCenter . #ComArtSci
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Rural students’ access to Wi-Fi is in jeopardy as pandemic-era resources recede, with major costs to academic achievement and educational outcomes.
theconversation.com
While the COVID-19 pandemic spurred significant progress in expanding rural home internet access, these gains are proving temporary as resources dwindle.
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Hiring Assoc/Full Prof in computational methods or/and quantitative social science. Consider joining us! #DataScience #AI #networksci #geospatial #MachineLearning #infosci #sociology @MSUComArtSci @MediaInfoMSU .
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pre-post COVID-19 report on Broadband and Student Performance Gaps After the COVID-19 Pandemic. Change in rural Michigan digital inequality, student achievement, and adolescent well-being @QuelloCenter.@GabeHales.@jm_bauer
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Interesting article on "Kinwork revisited: The gendered work of keeping up with family through communication technology" (some older media are abandoned as gender norms change) by Lina Eklund at Uppsala University
journals.sagepub.com
Kinwork is the maintenance of cross-household kin and family ties through both physical and mediated means and is a type of unpaid labour historically performed...
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Nice! "Detectable differences or functional equivalents?" validity of structural vs subjective measures of network diversity in political comm. I had not positive feedback when introducing position generators to this area @mbarni109 @MikeXenos @CynPeacock
tandfonline.com
Political communication researchers commonly use one of two strategies to measure online network diversity: a “subjective” approach tapping participants’ impressions of the diversity in their netwo...
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Concerns over the future of sociology of media & communication, and a field of digital media studies "Disciplinary brakes on the sociology of digital media: the incongruity of communication and the sociological imagination" #socialmedia
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This paper draws on my experience over two decades as part of an early generation of scholars who graduated with a PhD in sociology into a career as a researcher and teacher in the multidisciplinar...
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Interesting paper by Rize Jing et al: digital inequality predicts depressive symptoms among older (especially rural) adults in China
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Postdoc opportunity at @MSUComArtSci open to scholars doing research on digital media (including sociologists like me). Two, 1-2 year positions for recent PhDs advancing research related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. More info:
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RT @theESA: Video games can help teenagers feel less isolated by helping them socialize and build community. Read about the positive effect….
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We may believe that teens spending too much time on smartphones, video games, and social media is a problem. A Michigan State University researcher begs to differ
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RT @10News: Being disconnected can hurt teen self-esteem more than heavy internet use
10news.com
Researchers have found teens with little internet access suffer from worse self-esteem than teens who are more connected.
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A good summary of my recent work with @inyoung_shin looking at the small effect of screen time on teen self-esteem relative to "disconnection" and traditional inequalities. @QuelloCenter @MediaInfoMSU @MSUComArtSci .
journals.sagepub.com
Some argue that social media use displaces time that adolescents spend with friends and family and is therefore associated with lower psychological well-being. ...
Teens who are “excessive” users of screens report higher self-esteem than those who are disconnected, according to new research from MSU.
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RT @jean__hardy: It's PhD application season and we (me, @mysocnet, @jm_bauer) are seeking applicants who are interested in being research….
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RT @Shelia_Cotten: I appreciate @ASAnews asking me to write this article for #ASAFootnotes. I hope others find it useful. @ASAMedSoc @CITAM….
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RT @LTUArtsSci: Join us on October 11 for the annual Hotelling Lecture with guest speaker Keith N. Hampton to address the digital divide am….
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Interesting paper that ties together the research on network size and diversity w/ FOMO and social media fatigue by @terryzhou1979 and Yu Tian (@NewhouseSU)
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RT @QuelloCenter: Join us via Zoom tomorrow at 11 AM EST as Amy S. Bruckman presents, "Should you believe Wikipedia? Social epistemology, v….
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Seeking students for fully-funded positions, Info & Media PhD program @MSUComArtSci to work w/ me & @jm_bauer. Pursuing research @QuelloCenter on taken for granted assumptions about new media & digital inequality. Due Dec 1 for 2023-24 start. For more info
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Adolescents with poor home Internet & youth who parents actively control their media use have substantially lower self-esteem than even the heaviest "excessive" users of social media, video games, etc. New paper w/ @inyoung_shin @QuelloCenter @MSUComArtSci.
journals.sagepub.com
Some argue that social media use displaces time that adolescents spend with friends and family and is therefore associated with lower psychological well-being. ...
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