{"616561":{"#nid":"616561","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A Professor Who Taught a Course on \u0027Adulting\u0027 Says Many People Have the Wrong Idea about Millennials and Social Media","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/rebekah-fitzsimmons\u0022\u003ERebekah Fitzsimmons\u003C\/a\u003E, Brittain Fellow in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ES\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Echool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E, was recently featured in a\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EBusiness Insider\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;article entitled \u0026ldquo;A Professor Who Taught a Course on \u0026#39;Adulting\u0026#39; Says Many People Have the Wrong Idea about Millennials and Social Media.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead an excerpt here:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYoung people are the biggest users of social media in the US.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut that doesn\u0026#39;t mean they\u0026#39;re on the same platforms as the rest of the US population. And in some cases, they don\u0026#39;t even know how to use the social media platforms older people might be more familiar with.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERebekah Fitzsimmons, and English professor at Georgia Tech, learned that the hard way in 2016\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/when-does-adulthood-begin-adulting-2019-1\u0022\u003Ewhen she taught a class\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;called \u0026quot;Adulting: Coming of Age in 21st Century America,\u0026quot; which looked at notions of adulthood throughout history.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile her course had students use historical texts and digital media to define what it meant to be an adult, Fitzsimmons hit a road block when she realized some of her students didn\u0026#39;t know the first thing about how to use Twitter.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/adulting-professor-social-media-twitter-2019-1\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u0026nbsp;School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/stories\/2018\/12\/facebook-instagram-addictive-painkillers\/www.iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-01-17 17:47:24","changed_gmt":"2019-01-17 17:47:24","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"LZRD sleeve","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/adulting-professor-social-media-twitter-2019-1","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616040":{"id":"616040","type":"image","title":"Rebekah Fitzsimmons","body":null,"created":"1546895151","gmt_created":"2019-01-07 21:05:51","changed":"1546895151","gmt_changed":"2019-01-07 21:05:51","alt":"Portrait photo of Rebekah Fitzsimmons","file":{"fid":"234491","name":"fitzsimmons.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fitzsimmons.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fitzsimmons.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":12389,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/fitzsimmons.jpg?itok=OVZCqQ-2"}}},"media_ids":["616040"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"180085","name":"Rebekah Fitzsimmons"},{"id":"107931","name":"business insider"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}