Social media insights from recent research

• The more time college students spend online, the worst they do in their first semester….but they end up with better social lives.
• Facebook activism doesn’t detract from offline activism: people who are politically active on Facebook are actually more politically active than average offline, too.
• Policies for online professionalism are most successful when they are developed through consensus-based discussion.

Those are a few of the insights that Mo Kochmal gleaned from his round-up of recent academic publications on social media. There are lots of interesting ideas in his blog post: read it here.