scholarly journals Accelerated Professional Identity Development Through Social Network Sites

10.28945/4614 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 065-092
Author(s):  
Sharon Hardof-Jaffe ◽  
Baruch Schwarz ◽  
Hanoch Flum
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Professional Identity Development ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Wide Range

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to uncover how Social Network Sites (SNSs) active users who are eager to be knowledgeable about a specific domain develop a professional identity, what practices they use, and how do SNSs afford professional identity development. Background: Some researchers have shown that SNSs play a central role in personal development, but there is a lack of studies tracing the actual role of SNSs affordances in professional identity development. Methodology: Seven participants were followed during a whole year; we examined their professional identity development based on data collected from interviews, cued retrospective reports, and online activities. Contribution: The study shows that SNSs create a new context for professional identity development, a context whose new characteristics bring specific actors to a spectacular development in their professional identity. Based on the findings we suggest a new framework of professional identity development with SNSs. Findings: We identified a wide range of activities and changes in the perceived professional identity. We found that there are four phases of SNS’s professional identity development. The study also uncovers the three aspects of identity development: self-presentation, around-the-clock sociality, and interaction with information. The model of professional development through intensive use of SNSs is validated by our reports on the actual behaviors afforded by SNSs. Recommendations for Practitioners: The conceptual framework displayed in the article can help educational institutions to implement SNSs in order to enhance professional identity development. Guidance will allow students to handle self-presentation, sociality, and information management. By doing so, the guides will help achieving meaningful SNS activities and encouraging students to be involved in their fields of interest, thereby enhancing their professional identity. Future Research: Future studies may examine the implementation of SNSs for the exploration process leading to identity development in various educational institutions. A few years longitudinal study may examine the lifelong professional identity development in varied SNSs. Moreover, in the COVID-19 world crisis when life is in digital spaces more than ever, it will be interesting to study the role of SNSs of professional identity development in the population that lost their jobs.

scholarly journals Students' Attitudes on Social Network Sites and their Actual Use for Career Management Competences and Professional Identity Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (05) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreja Istenic Starcic ◽  
Margaret Barrow ◽  
Matej Zajc ◽  
Maja Lebenicnik
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Career Management ◽  
Professional Identity Development ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Students Attitudes

Social network sites (SNSs) have become strategic networking tools for employment-related activities. They shape professional identity and influence professional and career practices, providing new paths for career, employment and recruitment processes. Students’ professional identity is influenced by their career management and work experience. There is a lack of research on the use of SNSs for students’ on-line career management competences. A survey was conducted to examine students’ attitudes regarding the use of SNSs for career management competences and professional identity development. The students’ attitudes manifested career control, networking for learning, career reflection, self-presentation and work exploration. These attitudes have been identified as predictors for students’ actual use of SNSs for career management and professional identity development. For the career competences the main influencing predictors were found to be students’ beliefs that SNSs support work exploration, processes of self-presentation and career control. For professional identity development, the main influencing predictors were students’ beliefs that SNSs support career control and students’ engagement in professional events through networking for learning. Findings could contribute to understanding and facilitation of the SNS-related career management competences.

Tweet, share, like? De rol van sociaalnetwerksites van sportverenigingen bij de ontwikkeling van het clubgevoel van leden

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanny Kuijsters-Timmers ◽  
John Goedee ◽  
Roger Leenders
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Practical Implications

Tweet, share, like? The role of social network sites at voluntary sports clubs in developing membership involvement The number of organizations that use social network sites (SNSs) for internal communication is growing rapidly. However, little is known about the use and perceptions of SNSs in member organizations, such as voluntary sports clubs (VSCs). In a survey, members of the Dutch VSCs (n = 129) were asked about their use and perceptions of their clubs’ social network sites (ClubSNSs) and aspects of involvement with their club. Foremost, ClubSNSs are characterized as informative, interactive, and entertaining channels, as indicated by significant relationships with the content types on ClubSNSs. Furthermore, content about sports, the club, and the members are important. Finally, ClubSNSs contribute to membership involvement through the identification of members with their sports club. The main contributions of this study are the insights into the use and perceptions of SNSs in member organizations, such as VSCs. Practical implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals Social Network Sites and Well-Being: The Role of Social Connection

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna L. Clark ◽  
Sara B. Algoe ◽  
Melanie C. Green
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Extensive Body

In the early days of the Internet, both conventional wisdom and scholarship deemed online communication a threat to well-being. Later research has complicated this picture, offering mixed evidence about how technology-mediated communication affects users. With the dawn of social network sites, this issue is more important than ever. A close examination of the extensive body of research on social network sites suggests that conflicting results can be reconciled by a single theoretical approach: the interpersonal-connection-behaviors framework. Specifically, we suggest that social network sites benefit their users when they are used to make meaningful social connections and harm their users through pitfalls such as isolation and social comparison when they are not. The benefits and drawbacks of using social network sites shown in existing research can largely be explained by this approach, which also posits the need for studying specific online behaviors in future research.

scholarly journals “They Look at Themselves and Say: “Well, Okay…””: The Contribution of Video to Professional Identity Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Anne-Mette Nortvig
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Video Technology ◽  
Professional Identity Development ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Empirical Material

This paper focuses on the development of professional identity by the use of video technology. On the basis of empirical material from a professional bachelor’s e-learning programme, it is argued that the use of video can contribute to reflection of professional identity through its opportunities for visual reification of the professional “Me”: while acting in profession-like settings, the students experience their professional actions from an inside “I”-perspective, but while watching themselves on the video recording of it later on, they can see, reflect and evaluate their professional “Me” from an outside perspective in the role of the professional other. 

scholarly journals Exploring Counselors’ Personal Guiding Theories: A Qualitative Study in Portraiture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Barth ◽  
Jane Rheineck ◽  
Carrie Merino
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Counselor Educators ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Counseling Relationship ◽  
Professional Counselors ◽  
Professional Identity Development

A personal guiding theory of counseling is an important component of professional identity development for counselors. We utilized the qualitative methodology of portraiture to explore how professional counselors understand their own personal guiding theories of counseling. Three research portraits are shared that demonstrate how participants use the counseling relationship as the means to incorporate their personal guiding theories into their work with clients. Implications for counselors and counselor educators and future research are presented.

scholarly journals Entering Academic Advising

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Michael McGill ◽  
Mark Paul Duslak ◽  
Andrew Puroway
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Academic Advising ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Professional Identity Development ◽  
Substantive Theory ◽  
Collaborative Analysis

Primary-role academic advisors come to the field from a wide variety of social, academic, and vocational backgrounds.  There are likely a wide variety of ways in which these advisors are socialized for the work of academic advising and in the larger community of practice of advising.  However, advisors’ professional identity development is under-studied, and this lack of understanding is an impediment to the emergence of advising as a profession. This article presents findings on professional socialization from a larger collaborative autoethnographic study of advisor professional identity. We present a collaborative analysis of our reflections on becoming primary-role advisors which includes nine interconnecting themes in an emerging substantive theory of advisor professional socialization. Though it is not generalizable, our model is a proposal on which future research can build.   

scholarly journals Vocational Identity Development and the Role of Human Resources Management. A Systematic Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elia Pizzolitto ◽  
Ida Verna
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Vocational Identity ◽  
Professional Identity Development ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
The Social

The development and strengthening of employees’ vocational identity are critical issues in organizations. The absence of professional selfawareness could negatively affect the emotional status of individuals. Moreover, such a condition can lead to a worsening of organizational performance. For this reason, studying the connections between human resources management and identity development is essential. Data and method. This exploratory study performs a systematic literature review starting from SCOPUS and EBSCO Host databases to understand how literature debates these connections. Results. The majority of extracted articles belong to the following fields: human resources management, psychology, and organizational studies. The connections between these three fields represent a clear theoretical framework for understanding how literature debates professional identity development in organizations. The theories considered in the extracted articles are numerous, but the social identity theory and the social categorization theory are the most cited by the authors. Four main themes emerge from the content analysis: motivation, satisfaction, and well-being of employees; the “crisis” status of human resource management; professional identity development in the workplace; the career adaptation of individuals. Conclusions. This study allows confirming how the development of professional identity is critical in organizations. Although the literature shows a considerable interest in vocational identity and human resources management, this study reflects on the possibility of producing further in-depth examinations concerning the connections between these topics. Further studies should explore vocational identity development through a renovated strategic role of human resources management, no more limited to a bureaucratic partner.

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