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Journal article
Social work and social media: a national replication study of use, attitudes, and knowledge among US Students
Social work education, Vol.online ahead of print
03/05/2025
Web of Science ID: WOS:001434954000001
Abstract
The extensive adoption of social media (ie digital information and communications technology; artificial intelligence; machine learning; large language models) has implications for the social work profession's standards and educational policy. The purposes of this study were to describe US social work students' use, attitudes, and knowledge regarding social media and to compare these findings with a Fall 2019 national study. In Spring 2023, the authors sampled 160 universities with social work programs for the purpose of distributing a 56-item Qualtrics survey. Findings included: The concern over others' social media use versus self-use remains inverted; decreased agreement that data protection is important despite endorsing it as a civil/human rights issue; decreased endorsement of law enforcement's use of social media to assist in the apprehension of persons accused of committing a crime; decreased knowledge of racial bias in facial recognition technology; decreased confidence in the ability to identify disinformation; decreased endorsement that disinformation is a problem on social media; decreased knowledge that social media impact democratic processes; decreased knowledge of Net Neutrality; and, continued endorsement that social media belongs in the social work curriculum. The authors made recommendations for professional standards and educational policy, and government regulatory policy.
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- Title
- Social work and social media
- Publication Details
- Social work education, Vol.online ahead of print
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 24
- Copyright
- © 2025 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- WOS:001434954000001; 99381299079206600
- Academic Unit
- Social Work; Usha Kundu, MD College of Health
- Language
- English