Media Experiences Research Articles

The mediating role of concepts for collective reasoning about integrating play, teaching and digital media in preschool: A potential for enabled agency for early childhood teachers

An international contemporary challenge for early childhood teachers is to integrate digital media in preschool. Research indicates that teachers have concerns regarding the use of digital media in preschool, especially in relation to play. In this study, we explore how an early childhood education and care (ECEC) work team takes on this challenge when, in focus group conversations, discusses digital media in relation to a theoretical framework with principles and implications for understanding play and teaching in preschool. We adopt a sociocultural perspective when examining the mediating role of theoretical concepts for reasoning about the integration of digital media in ECEC. The findings illustrate how the concepts mediate an understanding of (i) play and teaching as responsive activities with a focus on the importance of sharing the same digital media references (ii) play and teaching activities as building on a mutual frame of reference, which is a challenge as children have different experiences of digital media than adults, (iii) play as including fluctuations between “as if” and “as is” and something that must include fantasy and an openness, with digital media contributing to or hindering such openness, and (iv) how teaching can take shape in mutual activities where mutual experiences of digital media can be used as a starting point for teaching. Implications for professional development efforts and teacher agency are discussed.

What is the problem? Representations of gender and violence towards politicians in UK parliamentary debates

Recent research demonstrates that there are important gendered dimensions in politicians’ experiences of violence. Less scholarship has examined the phenomenon’s political impacts, including how violence is represented as a policy problem by political actors themselves. This article applies feminist frame analysis to theories of gender and political violence to explore how UK members of Parliament frame their experiences of violence (including abuse, harassment and intimidation) in the eight House of Commons debates specifically on the topic between 2010 and 2021. Violence towards politicians, including an increasing focus on the experiences of women and social media abuse, has been politicised over time as a normative policy problem, being framed as an attack on the public good of democracy. This article develops theories of gender and political violence by demonstrating that the problem of gendered political violence can and should be conceptualised not only as a unique phenomenon but also as a policy problem.

Perceived Usability Evaluation of TikTok Shop Platform Using the System Usability Scale

The popularity of TikTok is getting higher because from the start TikTok is a platform that provides a new experience that combines the experience of social media as well as transacting online.TikTok allows businesses to market their products in as creative a form as possible, such as making videos and building a community with their market share. TikTok is an application that plays an important role in paid promotional media, which is of course directly related to digital marketing carried out by business people in the e-commerce sector. In this research, the author wants to know the usability of the TikTok Shop feature as an e-commerce feature that has recently become increasingly popular in society. The System Usability Scale (SUS) will be used to test whether the TikTok application, especially the TikTok Shop feature. The standard SUS version has 10 instruments. The accuracy value is then measured using acceptable rage, grade scale and adjective ratings System Usability Scale (SUS). Based on questionnaire data collected from 49 respondents, it was found that 10.6 percent of the respondents were male and 93.6 percent of the respondents were female. The accuracy value of 79.49 is included in the acceptability ranges acceptable category, meaning that the TikTok Shop platform can be accepted by users, getting a C grade scale means it is quite good and is included in the adjective ratings excellent category.

Search Fluency Mistaken for Understanding: Ease of Information Retrieval from the Internet Inflates Internal Knowledge Confidence

Internet search engines boast material features (e.g., Google’s knowledge panels, Featured Snippets) that increase the speed with which users find answers to search queries—while reducing their effort—to create a seamless media experience. Yet, the ability to instantaneously retrieve answers through seamless digital search may come at a metacognitive cost. This experiment examines the effect of digital search fluency on internal (in the “brain”) knowledge confidence. In a question-answering task, participants report higher ratings of internal knowledge confidence accompanying immediate access to Featured Snippets than those with delayed or no access to Featured Snippets. The effects of immediate information access on knowledge confidence not only occur for specific topics for which relevant information has been retrieved but also for topics irrelevant to the retrieved information. When people have immediate access to explanations through features that enhance access to information, external retrieval fluency may serve as a heuristic for internal knowledge confidence. Search engines that contribute to the immediate retrieval of external information may inadvertently strain Internet users’ ability to distinguish between mind and machine as the source of their knowledge.

The Toy Brick as a Communicative Device for Amplifying Children’s Voices in Research

The Toy Brick as a Communicative Device for Amplifying Children’s Voices in Research

The nature of social media use and ethnic minorities’ acculturation

Social media plays an increasing role in immigrants’ and sojourners’ cultural adaptation process. Understanding how the nature of social media use is associated with immigrants’ psychological as well as sociocultural adjustment is critical to maximizing its potential for acculturation. Interviews with 34 secondary school ethnic minority students in Hong Kong revealed that these students engaged in different types of social media experiences. Different social media experiences afforded different potentials for acculturation. But social media also had negative aspects, carrying over and amplifying some power relationships and struggles in society. The realization of the potentials of social media for acculturation was embedded in the dialectical interactions between the positive and negative aspects of social media experience. The nature of social media use was also situated in specific acculturation situations. The findings suggest a more critical and dynamic approach to understanding the complex relationships of social media use with acculturation and the cyclical interaction between the two.

Crafting Attention in Immersive and Interactive Practices

This creation is part of the ongoing project “Positioning the Audience in Cinematic Virtual Reality”, supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. The project engages with the attentional and corporeal resonance between spectators and visual experiences in participatory and immersive practices. In the continuing first phase of the project, we are designing and producing a VR creation that will then enable us to conduct audience research to focus on the attention practices of the viewers in the second phase. Hence, as a critical research-creation project it has two complementary and symmetrical foci that employ both theory and practice, and that are intertwined with one another. In tandem with making an interactive and photorealistic (cinematic) VR film where spectator crafts the very narrative unfolding by voluntary and involuntary attentional participation in a given scene, we are also developing a conceptual framework on how immersive and interactive technologies are conditioned by the freedom given to the spectator. As interdisciplinary project it brings together researchers from film studies, new media studies and psychology to develop a holistic understanding on the attention of spectator in moving image technologies. In making, instead of using game-based interactivity technologies enabled by the controllers, the VR film uses gaze detection techniques and the attentional economy of the spectator as active defining element of the narrative unfolding. Combining both the bottom-up and the top-down attentional procedures it allows spectators to craft a circular experience and aims to problematize the craft of the spectator. In theory it aims to develop an historical and critical understanding of visual practices where spectator is the active producer of the optical experience in certain media ecology including technologies from proto-cinematic devices to the post-cinematic media constellation comprising video games, Virtual Reality etc. Therefore we aim to problematize and rend sensible the craft and the autonomy of the viewer by combining conventional academic research practices with artistic experimentation. The creation undertaken in the first phase of the research is aimed to result in multiple alternative designs, which will form the basis of our presentation at IFM2023.

KAREN’S DINER JAKARTA MARKETING: UNIQUE SERVICE EXPERIENCE BECAME AUTOPILOT MARKETING

In Hospitality industry, courtesy became the most important part doing a service to the guest. Karen’s Diner brings a new concept of hospitality which is different than the usual service. Using type unfriendly waiter/waitress when doing a service, became a kind of attraction for the guest that make them want to try the sensation the rough service. From hospitality point of view, this kind of service wasn’t proper for the guest. Especially in Indonesia well known for warm hospitality. But many people upload their experience in social media make them proud have tried Karen’s Diner. This research uses the qualitative descriptive and used data collection techniques such as literature studies, documentation through social media Tik Tok and internet source. Many customer feels proud and happy for trying Karen’s Diner because of Karen’s Diner existences on social media. They makes many posting on social media and goes viral. After many customer curious and try their service, some of the customers feels unpleasant because the service and post their experience in social media. So many pro’s and con’s on social media makes Karen’s Diner more famous. The source of the research object was limited from the papers, only can find on online source. The authors suggests to makes more research about Karen’s Diner to make it more valid. There’s no previous research about Karen’s Diner especially in marketing.

Campus Medius: Digitales Kartografieren in den Kulturund Medienwissenschaften/Digital Mapping in Cultural and Media Studies by Simon Ganahl

Reviewed by: Campus Medius: Digitales Kartografieren in den Kulturund Medienwissenschaften/Digital Mapping in Cultural and Media Studies by Simon Ganahl Christian Zolles Simon Ganahl, Campus Medius: Digitales Kartografieren in den Kulturund Medienwissenschaften/Digital Mapping in Cultural and Media Studies. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022. 360 pp. The last decade witnessed the rise of Digital Humanities, a transdisciplinary research practice that seeks to apply new digital tools, techniques, and modes of scholarship to classic fields of research in the humanities. Funded projects have increasingly aimed at generating large and processable databases (e.g., linguistic corpora) and at making available and improving online editions and annotations of books or archival documents. Researchers in the DH were confronted with the importance and difficulty of, on the one hand, tying their investigations in with the multi-medial web culture and, on the other hand, ensuring the long-term storage and accessibility of scans and encoded data. Their goal was to remain independent of temporary (software) fashions. This was the impetus to the foundation of scientific alliances, such as the Austrian "Kompetenznetzwerk Digitale Edition" (KONDE, www.digitale-edition.at), in order to strengthen the exchange between projects of similar digital interests. While the opportunity presented by this development to bring about some urgent structural changes in the academic landscape was, unfortunately, missed and many technical parameters are still open (such as a stable interconnectivity between back end [server] and the front end [web browser] or the data processibility between various projects), nevertheless the awareness of living in a digital age entered into the main academic discourses and, contrary to some doom-laden scenarios, there are indeed important research gains arising from the digital turn that should not be ignored. The digital mapping project Campus Medius, initiated, curated, and edited by Simon Ganahl, should perhaps be approached in this sense: that during these ten years, it remained on the periphery of DH's institutionalization process and tried independently to make the most of the new digital opportunities—and succeeded in doing so throughout. A key factor in the project's exemplary intersection of concept and technical implementation is its strong theoretical background, which avoids current gestures toward the somewhat neglectful abandonment of influential theoretical strands that has taken place in recent decades. In contrast, Ganahl tried to make some of these theories productive with the help of innovative hypertext and visual strategies. [End Page 144] Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of "chronotope," the Foucauldian-Deleuzian concept of "dispositif," and Bruno Latour's Actor-network theory are all used specifically to shape the way in which a rich selection of historical sources is presented in Campus Medius, according to the logic of information processing and with methods drawn from digital cartography. By pursuing "The database is the theory" (36) as a motto, the project demonstrates the importance of elementary information management work to properly trace the relational patterns of perceptions of space, time, and value. The book takes a time-space of twenty-four hours in Vienna in May 1933, marked by the "Turks Deliverance Celebration" organized by the Austrofascist regime in power as an "empirical laboratory." Campus Medius tried to catch and reflect the "medial atmosphere" and narrativity of this very "chronotope" by concentrating on fifteen selected events and following a multi-perspective narrative technique. One quickly recognizes that media experience is at the heart of the project (44–52), with "reading" being only one practice among others, following Ganahl's thesis that "having a media experience in modern society essentially means using reason in sovereign signs, capturing life in examining gazes, or speaking up in governed transmission" (28–29). In the topological sections of the project, it not only reflects upon the networks of sovereign signs, gazes, and voices, which were manifested in the 1933 mass events, but ultimately also offers a media-archaeological perspective on different strands of power and knowledge spanning from the seventeenth century up to the present day. In this way, well-known places such as the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace, the Burgtheater, or the Karl Marx-Hof, as well as media institutions like the national broadcasting company RAVAG, the cinema UFA Ton Kino, or the newspaper Neue Freie Presse are analyzed...

Habitually Scrolling: An Examination Into How Sport Consumers Use Social Media

Uses and gratifications theory has often been used in (sport) communication studies to examine social media usage. Yet, criticisms of uses and gratifications theory (e.g., it overstates purposefulness) and competing research suggesting media use is more habitual and unconscious in nature have often been overlooked. Thus, through semistructured interviews, this research explored how social media is used, identifying five themes: passively, distinctly, periodically, habitually, and universally. Theoretically, this research contributes by highlighting the passive, habitual, and unconscious nature of some sport social media behavior, thereby challenging our current assumptions that sport social media usage is always active, purposeful, and goal directed. It also considers the uniqueness (or lack thereof) of sport content within the social media experience. Managerially, this research helps sport organizations understand how consumers use social media to inform marketing and communication strategies.

Transcendent Brand Activism Advertising: Explicating the Roles of Color and Message Framing in Advertising Effectiveness

Brands have been increasingly speaking up on sociopolitical issues (so-called brand activism advertising) to showcase their nonneutrality and drive meaningful societal changes. Yet little is known about how brands can strategize brand activism advertising to effectively engage consumers and benefit companies. Drawing upon the frameworks of transcendent media experiences, color, and message framing theory, this research examines the interplay between a visual element (i.e., image color: black-and-white [BW] versus color) and a verbal element (i.e., message framing: promotion framed versus prevention framed) in the effectiveness of brand activism advertising. Across two experiments, we found that brand activism ads that use BW (versus color) images, when paired with promotion-framed (versus prevention-framed) messages, led to more favorable attitudes toward the ads and elicited higher purchase intentions. We argue that brand activism ads trigger consumers’ transcendent experiences to a varying degree and identify consumers’ perceived inspiration upon viewing the ads as an underlying psychological mechanism. These findings advance current literature by examining brand activism advertising from the perspective of transcendent experiences and explicating the key factors and mechanism that affect consumer experiences and advertising effectiveness.

Media Massa dan Proses Konstruksi Realitas dalam Kajian Teori Sistem dan Differensiasi

The mass media itself is referred to as "media" because of its nature as a medium / intermediary. For the discipline of Communication Science, the media (as a medium) is one of the factors forming the communication process. Whereas mass media, in general knowledge is more defined in institutions / organizations / media companies that produce information in the form of commodities traded, called mass media because the process seeks to direct the results of its production to the widest possible audience. Reality construction is the process by which mass media create information products before they are accepted by the public. Construction of reality is more defined as an effort to compile the reality of one or a number of events that were originally fragmented (random) to be systematic to form a meaningful story or discourse. This article attempts to read the process of constructing reality with the perspective of System Theory and Differentiation from Niklas Luhmann. Luhmann sees through these two perspectives that people get reality from the mass media as the second form of reality that occurs, because the first reality obtained by the mass media experiences the construction of reality when it enters the mass media area. The basis for the construction of reality in the mass media is the existence of self-references and other references present in the mass media system. The mass media system distinguishes self-references and other references in themselves in the form of the construction of reality or the results of information distributed to the public.

Uncovering Hidden Media Framings in Generic Communication Competence Assessments: Is the Face-To-Face Context the Default Framing?

ABSTRACT Dispositional communication competencies can be assessed in (a) a generic form that does not include any reference to a particular medium of interaction or in (b) a communication medium-specific version. To date, little is known about the specific media that individuals use as a reference and the weights they assign to them when responding to generic communication items – an important research gap because the use of diverse communication media has risen considerably during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on media theories, two hypotheses were derived: Generic ratings contain a “hidden” face-to-face (FtF) communication framing that is dominant in the cognitive processing (media naturalness perspective) versus media are equally weighted in the mental aggregate of respondents (adaptation perspective). According to a preregistered study plan, generic and medium-specific communication items were assessed to investigate these hypotheses (referencing FtF, videoconferencing, chat, and e-mail interaction contexts). Training (n = 200) and test (n = 389) datasets were analyzed using latent variable modeling. Results indicated that generic ratings have a strong hidden FtF framing. These hidden framings impact the predictive power of the competencies to explain communication criteria (i.e. communication satisfaction). Exploratory analyses indicated that individual differences in media experience may affect the framings.

The Shape of Inspiration: Exploring the Emotional Arcs and Self-Transcendent Elicitors Within Inspirational Movies

ABSTRACT Emotions have long been regarded as a central component of the entertainment media experience. The present study combines computational analysis and quantitative content analysis to analyze the emotional arcs of inspirational media content and associated elicitors of self-transcendent emotions in order to develop a more comprehensive understanding of inspirational media. Results demonstrate that inspirational movies can be characterized by a positive shift in sentiment at the end of the narrative and multiple shifts between relatively negative and relatively positive sentiment throughout the story. Furthermore, the “peaks” and “valleys” in the emotional arcs are associated with the presence of differing inspirational elicitors, and the presence of certain elicitors (such as kindness/moral goodness) within a scene predicted positive shifts in the emotional arcs in the scenes following the elicitor.

Investigating digitally mediated temporal experience: From empiricism to ethics

Much recent scholarship in the field of media phenomenology has investigated the role of temporality in shaping our experience of digital media in everyday life, as well as the ethical and political ramifications that flow from it. Consistent with the central phenomenological tenet of locating the present as ontologically prior to any past origin, the idea is that in order to properly understand the texture of day-to-day digital navigation our focus should not be on discrete media texts or objects, but on the way they are experienced first and foremost as presents into which we find ourselves repeatedly thrown. The aim of this article is to establish an empirical framework for scrutinizing the ethical dimensions of digitally mediated temporal experience. The traces of this experience are not paths from a past or causal origin, but traces of mobility experienced as always-already presentness.

A New Podcast for Reducing Stigma Against People Living With Complex Mental Health Issues: Co-design Study.

Mental illness stigma refers to damaging stereotypes and emotional responses around the experience of mental health issues. Media-based interventions have the potential to reduce the public's stigmatizing attitudes by improving mental health literacy, emotional appeal, and the intimacy of address. As audio-based media facilitating storytelling, podcasts show potential for reducing stigma; however, it is unclear what features could make a podcast effective or engaging. The Co-Design and Anti-Stigma Podcast Research (CASPR) study aimed to collaborate with key target audience members to inform the development of a new podcast. This podcast primarily aims to reduce listeners' stigmatizing attitudes toward people living with complex mental health issues. This study was adapted from Experience-Based Co-Design methodology. The first part, information gathering, involved a web-based mixed methods survey with 629 Australian podcast listeners to explore their interest and concerns around podcasts. Then, a series of focus groups were held with a purposive sample of 25 participants to explore the potential benefits and challenges of the podcast format. Focus group participants included people with lived experience of complex mental health issues, media and communications professionals, health care professionals, and people interested in workplace mental health. The second part, co-design, constituted 3 meetings of a co-design committee with 10 participants drawn from the focus groups to design the podcast using brainstorming and decision-making activities. Most survey respondents (537/629, 85.3%) indicated a willingness to listen to a podcast about experiences of mental illness stigma; participants indicated preference for semistructured episodes and a mixture of light and serious content. Focus group participants identified potential challenges with appealing to listeners, making the content emotionally resonant and engaging, and translation to listeners' attitude change. The co-design committee collaborated to achieve consensus on the focus of individual episodes: domains where stigma and discrimination are common, such as workplaces and health care settings; the structure of individual episodes: storyboards that centralize guests with lived experience, featuring explicit discussions around stigma and discrimination; and overarching content principles, including a sincere, empathetic, and hopeful tone; using plain language; having clear calls to action; and providing listener resources. The co-design process informed a podcast design that features lived experience narratives with an explicit focus on stigma and discrimination, highlighting the realities of stigma while acknowledging progress in the space and how listeners can contribute toward social change. This study allowed for an in-depth discussion around the strengths and limitations of such a podcast according to different target audience members. The co-design committee designed key elements of a podcast that has the potential to minimize the limitations of the format while embracing the benefits of podcast-based storytelling. Once produced, the podcast will be evaluated for its impact on attitude change.

Adolescent Experiences With Social Media and Suicidality.

Examine social media experiences of the suicidal adolescent presenting to the emergency department with an acute mental health crisis. We used qualitative interviews to obtain in-depth understanding of both negative and positive impacts of social media use on acute adolescent suicidal behavior. A bilingual transcriptionist transcribed audio recordings. Three investigators independently reviewed transcripts to identify themes and develop initial coding scheme through "open coding." Using grounded theory, data collection proceeded along with cultivation of themes until thematic saturation was achieved. Thematic saturation was determined when no new themes were generated from the data. Data were coded in Dedoose software to facilitate reporting of themes and quotes. Techniques to ensure trustworthiness included iterative data collection, use of a coding framework, and multiple coders. Seventeen interviews were conducted from May to October 2020. Median participant age was 15 years. Twenty-four percent were of Hispanic ethnicity and 82% identified as cisgender. Major themes include distraction from negative emotions; facilitated communication resulting in improved social connectedness; metric of connectedness; comparison of self to others; and desensitization and normalization to suicidal acts. Minor theme of increased time on social media is also discussed. These themes echoed components of current suicide theory. Acutely suicidal adolescents report social media experiences that reflect themes of social alienation and learned capacity for suicidal acts. Themes echo components of current suicide theory.Our participants also reported positive uses of social media. These protective experiences should be leveraged to inform strategies to interrupt behaviors leading to acute suicidality.

Nursing undergraduates' media competence in the context of health communication and its relationship to professionalism.

To investigate the association between professionalism and social media competence among Chinese mainland nursing undergraduates. This study employed a cross-sectional descriptive correlation design. From June to July 2021, 797 nursing students from four nursing colleges in Jiangsu Province, China, were chosen using stratified cluster sampling. The questionnaire included the Chinese version of the Nursing Professionalism Scale and the Social Media Competency Scale. The association between professionalism and social media competency was examined using Pearson's correlation analysis. The professionalism of nursing undergraduates (average scores:70.44 ± 8.82) was at a medium level. Social media self-efficacy, performance expectancy, facilitating conditions and social influence (3.76 ± 0.75, 3.87 ± 0.60, 3.53 ± 0.69, 3.41 ± 0.76) were at a medium-high level, while social media experience and effort expectancy (3.03 ± 0.72, 2.60 ± 0.59) were at medium and low levels. Among nursing undergraduates, professionalism was related to social media competence, among which, professionalism was positively correlated with social media self-efficacy (r = 0.40, p < 0.01), social media experience (r = 0.50, p < 0.01), performance expectancy (r = 0.34, p < 0.01), facilitating conditions (r = 0.41, p < 0.01), but negatively correlated with effort expectancy (r = -0.10, p < 0.01). The professionalism of nursing undergraduates is related to social media. The scores of social media self-efficacy, social media experience, performance expectancy and facilitating conditions of nursing students with high professionalism were higher than those of nursing students with low professionalism. This study suggests that developing a course on health communication on social media can help nursing students improve their professionalism. Participants completed a survey via the online survey platform Wenjuangxing.

UK midwives' perceptions and experiences of using Facebook to provide perinatal support: Results of an exploratory online survey.

Seeking support from Facebook groups during pregnancy is now widespread and social media has been widely used by the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) maternity services to communicate with service users during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this, little is currently known about midwives' attitudes towards, and experiences of social media in practice. Research is needed to understand barriers and solutions to meeting mothers' expectations of online support and to improve services. This study explored midwife involvement in Facebook groups, exploring experiences and perceptions of its use to communicate with and support mothers. An online survey consisting of open and closed questions was completed by 719 midwives and student during August- September 2020. Quantitative questionnaire data was analysed descriptively using SPSS v26. Qualitative data gathered from free text responses was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Few participants were involved in providing Facebook support, and most of these were unpaid. There was a consensus on a range of benefits for mothers, but widespread concern that engaging with mothers online was a personal and professional risk, underpinned by a lack of support. Experience of being involved in midwife moderation increased belief in its benefits and reduced fear of engaging online, despite a lack of renumeration and resources. Midwives and students felt they were discouraged from offering Facebook support and sought further training, guidance and support. Although limited, experiences of providing Facebook group support are positive. Perceptions of risk and a lack of support are significant barriers to midwives' involvement in using Facebook groups to support mothers. Midwives seek support and training to safely and effectively engage with mothers using Facebook. Engaging with mothers via social media is embedded in UK national policy and NHS digital strategy, and progress is needed to fulfil these, to improve services and meet mothers' expectations. Midwives' experiences suggest extending opportunities to provide Facebook support would benefit midwives, services and families. Consultation to revise local policy to support midwives and students in line with strategic goals is recommended.

Use of Social Media for Patient Education in Dermatology: Narrative Review.

Social media has rapidly become one of the main avenues for news and communication among those with access to technology. Nearly 60% or 4.7 billion people worldwide use social media. Different social media networks provide users with a barrage of posts, opinions, and transformations. With this noticeable uptick in physician and patient education usage of social media, exploration of the impacts of social media on patient education in dermatology is crucial. The goal of this narrative review was to evaluate existing peer-reviewed literature examining the use of social media for patient education in dermatology and to establish trends and implications. Additional attention was given to different social media sites, and potential differences in modalities of posts such as short-form videos on TikTok and Instagram Reels, long-form videos on YouTube, and infographics on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. PubMed, Access DermatologyDxRx, and Scopus searches of peer-reviewed publications were performed to discover articles with social media and patient education keywords in combination with other health care-relevant or dermatology-relevant keywords. Subsequently, the screening of these studies was performed by the author who has experience with education and research experience in health care, dermatology, social media, and telehealth. Ultimately, the selected articles were summarized through qualitative analysis of key points and presented for further discussion. Through this narrative review, the researcher was able to identify several publications focusing on dermatology and social media. Some common subject areas included the use of social media for the promotion of private dermatology practices, residency programs, and research journals. So long as providers, such as dermatologists, take ethical considerations into account, these platforms can provide patients with curated educational content. In addition, several publications emphasized the use of social media as a form of patient education on dermatologic conditions but also as a source of misinformation. This narrative review illuminated the use of social media as a form of patient education for dermatology, with its applications addressed across many demographics and situations. As social media platforms continue to update their algorithms, content filters, and posts, social media may become a reputable form of patient education in dermatology. Future studies and innovations should continue to explore innovations in this space, the efficacy of different modalities of posts, and longitudinal differences in patient outcomes and health literacy.