Pinterest and Self Presentation

Abstract

This activity utilizes Pinterest not only in an icebreaker activity for helping students build connections (particularly in online courses where the opportunity to interact with classmates is limited), but also to teach about subject specific concepts in an Individual in Society course. Students create their own Pinterest board and participate in an...

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems, Social Psychology

Resource Type(s):

Assessment, Assignment, Class Activity

Class Level(s):

College 100, College 200, College 300, College 400, High School

Class Size(s):

Any

Usage Notes

While Pinterest and other social media platforms have been used as a course resource for supplemental information (Ganjoo et al 2021, Nguyen et al 2021, Pearce and Learmonth 2013), a tool for teaching organization (Buffington 2013), and a place to  create an online community of inquiry (Fornara and Lomicka 2019), these platforms have rarely been...

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. Goal 1: Implement self-presentation, role taking and the looking glass self through the use of computer mediated communication while also creating connections with classmates.
2. Goal 2: Recognize, understand, interpret and analyze the use of role taking, self-presentation, the I, the Me, the Looking Glass Self, Computer mediated communication, the digital self and the hierarchy of identities in their interactions with others.

Goal Assessment(s):

1. Assessment 1: Students engage in self-presentation through the selection of pins to post on their Pinterest board. Because they are asked to select pins that represent themselves and their interests, without the ability to use text to explain, and because they are instructed to engage in guessing what the pins of others mean, they must make use of role...
2. Assessment 2: Students apply the concepts of the I, the Me, Role Taking and the Looking Glass Self to the Pinterest activity they engaged in by explaining their thought process during the selection and posting of pins while considering how they would be received by their classmates. They also demonstrate an understanding of the presentation of self, the...