REIsearch Initiative on Digital Skills "How Nerdy is Europe?"
The network of experts and media for evidence-based policy making launched its third campaign to assess and promote the digital skills of the Europeans
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Results of the Media Campaign on Digital Skills "How Nerdy is Europe?"
In September 2018 REIsearch launched a citizen engagement and media campaign on the skills for a digital Europe. The campaign was timed to create a synergy with the release of the third beta version of REIsearch sporting new features as the “Ask the Reasearcher” a new function automatically routing users questions on digital matters to the most appropriate experts. Coherently with previous editions, the aim was to stimulate public awareness on the skills needed both by workers and citizens as well as develop a debate between policymakers, scientists and citizens and better understand the evidence, the constraints and the opinions of citizens across Europe.
On October 14, the campaign went public, with dedicated articles published both on the paper and online editions of Atomium media partners, including Der Standard, El País, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Público, Il Sole24ore, Les Echos and Euroscientist.
Elsevier and the European Commission’s DG Connect facilitated the engagement of researchers through their social media channels. Based on readership, the potential public reached by the campaign was equal to over 5,7 million Europeans.
Media partners were asked to run at least three stories: one at the kick-off of the campaign presenting the game and with a supporting story on digital competences of young europeans and one within three weeks from that with the data gathered through the platform.
The campaign ran for 3 weeks and 20 articles were published around four main topics: (i) social and new media (ii) big data and AI (iii) IoT and (vi) cybersecurity and privacy.
The online articles contained a link to a gamified questionnaire, the iNerd game, accessible online in a responsive format automatically adapting to mobile devices.
The social media campaign was also run in parallel with the article publications. The social media campaign reached approximately 1 Million people across all media channels as detailed further on. The data above, as figures below, date from the end of October 2018 and are evolving as the campaign remains active beyond the completion of the present project. This has translated into:
- more than 66.000 users visiting the REIsearch site and taking part to the media campaign, exceeding the 20.000 target set in the initial proposal by 230%
- The gamified survey was accessed by 26.000 people and fully completed by 45% (12.000) marking a 243% hike compared to the 2017 answer rate of the questionnaires on NGI technologies
- 13.500 views of expert videos (531% above target)
- 17% of users returning to the platform at least once (almost 20% above target)
- 26% of users trying different functions beside the gamified survey (5% above target)
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Selected articles on: Social and New Media
Fear of missing out and problematic social media use as mediators between emotional support from social media and phubbing behavior
Social media and the modern scientist: a research primer on social media-based research, dissemination, and sharing
Social Media Use and Perceived Social Isolation Among Young Adults in the U.S.
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Social Media and Its Role in Marketing
LinkedLegal: Investigating social media as evidence in courtrooms
Social achievement goals and social media
Cyberbullying victimization at work: Social media identity bubble approach
Social media use improves executive functions in middle-aged and older adults: A structural equation modeling analysis
Unpacking the black box: How to promote citizen engagement through government social media during the COVID-19 crisis
Spatial biases in crowdsourced data: Social media content attention concentrates on populous areas in disasters
Social Media: A Critical Introduction
Social media usage, social support, intergenerational relationships, and depressive symptoms among older adults
Attachment style moderates the relationship between social media use and user mental health and wellbeing
Role stressors, job satisfaction, and employee creativity: The cross-level moderating role of social media use within teams
Social media overload, exhaustion, and use discontinuance: Examining the effects of information overload, system feature overload, and social overload
Advances in Social Media Research: Past, Present and Future
Social media capital: Conceptualizing the nature, acquisition, and expenditure of social media-based organizational resources
Social Media its Impact with Positive and Negative Aspects
Social media use and consumer shopping preferences
Consumer response towards social media advertising: Effect of media interactivity, its conditions and the underlying mechanism
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Engagement with Social Media and Social Media Advertising: The Differentiating Role of Platform Type
A Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms
Users’ ethical perceptions of social media research: Conceptualisation and measurement
Social media, news media and the stock market
Social media and fake news in the 2016 election
Social media and HIV: A systematic review of uses of social media in HIV communication
Hot topics in social media and reproductive health
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The future of social media in marketing
Komunikasi dan Media Sosial (Communications and Social Media)
Children and adolescents and digital media
How is extraversion related to social media use? A literature review
Social media use following exposure to an acute stressor facilitates recovery from the stress response
Measuring emotional contagion in social media
Social Media Fingerprints of Unemployment
The Political Significance of Social Media Activity and Social Networks
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