Boast, praise oneself, one’s personal characteristics, accomplishments, possessions, abilities, and other aspects with the intended goal of making oneself appear exalted or capable to others (Keton & Nancy, 2015 AU98: The in-text citation "Keton & Nancy, 2015" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. , as cited in Rüdiger & Dayter, 2020 , p. 17); compare oneself favorably against others; promote the self.
Published in Chapter:
Art of the Constructive Academic Social Brag to Improve Competition and Performance for Social-Shared Teaching and Learning
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6496-7.ch010
Abstract
If social media is about the social brag and the pose, academic social media has dedicated platforms that enable such shares: learning content sharing platforms (educational channels on social video sharing sites and social image sharing sites, learning object referatories, digital libraries, slideshow sharing sites), research sharing sites, publications and review metrics platforms, social learning sites (MOOCs, LMSes), and others. The academic social brag does not have to be negative or offending; it can be designed and harnessed to improve competition and performance among peer academics (in their social sharing), given the reliance on learner/user numbers to justify the original creation and sharing. This work explores academic social bragging across various academic social sharing platforms, dimensions for how these are judged (positively or negatively), and ways to turn academic social brags into something constructive for social-shared teaching and learning.