{"id":238,"date":"2021-10-21T09:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/?p=238"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:56:44","slug":"identity-social-media-interaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/2021\/10\/identity-social-media-interaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Does our identity impact the way we interact with agricultural and environmental information online?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/files\/2021\/10\/technology-g820fba391_640.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Image of caucasian person holding a phone and checking Instagram\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/files\/2021\/10\/technology-g820fba391_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/files\/2021\/10\/technology-g820fba391_640-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>We have all experienced just how much social media has changed our lives. It increases our potential connections to people and groups across the globe &#8211; helping us build relationships with those we have and have not met offline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">In a recent\u00a0study, authors <a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/people\/catherine-e-sanders\/\" data-type=\"caes-people\" data-id=\"34\">Katie (Dobbins) Sanders<\/a>, Fallys Masambuka-Kanchewa, and <a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/people\/alexa-j-lamm\/\" data-type=\"caes-people\" data-id=\"38\">Alexa J. Lamm<\/a>\u00a0sought\u00a0to\u00a0explore\u00a0how\u00a0cultural\u00a0identity\u00a0impacts\u00a0the\u00a0use\u00a0of,\u00a0and\u00a0engagement\u00a0with,\u00a0social\u00a0media\u00a0content\u00a0related\u00a0to\u00a0agriculture\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the availability of several studies integrating cultural identity, environment, and social media, a gap was observed within research directly examining the intersection of science communication, cultural identity, and social media. Due to the changing dynamics in agricultural and environmental communication through social media channels, scholars should consider the connections between identity, scientific information, and social media messaging for effective communication strategies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors <a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/2021\/10\/intersection-of-cultural-identity-and-social-media-ace-pd\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/2021\/10\/intersection-of-cultural-identity-and-social-media-ace-pd\/\">presented <\/a>their findings and key takeaways from the research in the 2021-2022 Association for Communication Excellence Professional Development Webinar Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors hope their research encourages other science communicators within agricultural and natural resource communication to consider both their audiences&#8217; and their own identities when communicating through social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the full research article <a href=\"https:\/\/newprairiepress.org\/jac\/vol105\/iss2\/6\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/newprairiepress.org\/jac\/vol105\/iss2\/6\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers investigate the role of identity within social media networks for agricultural and environmental communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":752,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[10,4],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media-research","tag-lamm","tag-sanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}