{"id":11212,"date":"2024-06-02T19:31:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T02:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2024-06-02T19:31:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T02:31:42","slug":"snapchat-streaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2024\/06\/02\/snapchat-streaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat Streaks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This is my first year teaching in a Junior High grade (Grade 8 Core French) and it\u2019s been an illuminating\u00a0experience to say the least. One thing I had not previously experienced was the pervasive effects of Snapchat on the interactions and culture of teenagers. Perhaps one of the most fascinating and troubling\u00a0ideas for me in the context of mobile culture was the idea of the Snapstreak. Simply put, you maintain a Snapstreak with an online contact by interacting with them every day. The length and maintenance of this streak is highly symbolic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vrscout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/snapchat-augmented-reality.jpg?fit=1024%2C658&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:839px;height:200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Research by van Essen et. al (2023) highlights the importance of understanding the social and psychological implications of Snapchat streaks for early adolescents. The effect size is relatively small, but there is a relationship between Snapchat streaks and problematic smartphone use. This indicates that Snapchat streaks may be a normal communication behavior for adolescents rather than a significant risk factor for negative outcomes. However, they also highlight how Snapstreaks encourage compulsive use of social media, are seldom rich in meaning or context, and often cause real-world issues between friends or the perception of closeness where there may be none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Students will directly disobey instructions to put away phones to continue a Snapstreak; they compulsively take meaningless pictures of the floor and send them to dozens of people while talking to their friends, to make sure the streak continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I am chaperoning an overnight class trip to a beautiful camp in the woods on Monday and Tuesday of this week. I chatted with my students about things they were nervous and excited about, and things they would be happy to have a break from. A staggering number said their number one source of anxiety was that their Snapstreak would be broken when they leave their phone at home; some considered foregoing the trip to make sure they could maintain this streak, rather than risk the social repercussions of the perception that they had let online relationships or loyalty lapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">So, what does this say about Mobile Culture? Is this just another way of interacting online and creating a mobile culture? Or is it a crude tool to force sustained engagement with a platform? I look forward to exploring it more, and hearing the feedback of others. I don\u2019t use Snapchat, so I\u2019m sure there are nuances that I\u2019m not aware of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I know how twitchy I get when I get close to missing my Duolingo lesson for the day&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">van Essen, C. M., &amp; Van Ouytsel, J. (2023). Snapchat streaks\u2014How are these forms of gamified interactions associated with problematic smartphone use and fear of missing out among early adolescents? <em>Telematics and Informatics Reports<\/em>, <em>11<\/em>, 100087.<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.teler.2023.100087\"> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.teler.2023.100087<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first year teaching in a Junior High grade (Grade 8 Core French) and it\u2019s been an illuminating\u00a0experience to say the least. One&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2024\/06\/02\/snapchat-streaks\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snapchat Streaks<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":101705,"featured_media":1227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-11212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobileculture","tag-education","tag-mobile-culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212\/revisions\/11213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}