Navigating the Changing Currents of Social Media: Teaching Management Students How To Analyze and Understand University Social Media Policies

Management, Social Media, Organizational Policy, Law.

Most college students are highly underinformed as to whether their universities have a social media policy. Likewise, most college students do not realize that universities can discipline or even expel them for their personal social media use. In this session, we highlight a project that was designed to help management students recognize the potential pitfalls that their online behavior can have on their academic careers. This session also discusses common university social media policy language, how students can avoid problematic online behaviors, and what legal protections may or may not apply in university social media discipline cases.

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