{"id":176,"date":"2016-01-03T13:58:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T20:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/?p=176"},"modified":"2016-01-03T13:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T20:58:39","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/2016\/01\/03\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year and welcome to Psyc 325: The Psychology of Self in Social Media!<\/p>\n<p>This website\u00a0functions as a living\u00a0course syllabus, and will be continually updated throughout the term. Before class on Tuesday, start\u00a0on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/\">Essentials <\/a>page and work your way through the site to learn about the course.\u00a0Post a comment below\u00a0if you have questions or concerns (or <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/essentials\/teaching-team\/\">email me<\/a> if they&#8217;re private). We&#8217;ll soon have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/materials-readings\/to-communicate-and-engage\/\">other ways<\/a> to communicate too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/essentials\/class-meetings\/\">Class begins <\/a>on Tuesday January 5\u00a0at 11am. We will spend the full class period in dialogue. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/policies-expectations\/what-we-expect-from-you\/\">come prepared<\/a>. Consult the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/schedule\/\">Schedule <\/a>for some guiding thoughts and readings. If you are unable to make it to this first class (or any class), you are responsible for catching up as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice that the Schedule\u00a0does not\u00a0include a complete reading list. That&#8217;s because we&#8217;ll be building the bulk of it\u00a0after our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/goals-assessments\/journal-article-evaluation\/\">first assignment<\/a>\u00a0(due Jan 19), once you have provided your feedback on which articles you think are worthwhile for the class to read. <em>Have some in mind already?\u00a0Add them to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1PTtM58CQo4ImGHoUx_J6hm8EHHPwHz82WR92o_Pi0xI\/edit#\" target=\"_blank\">this GoogleDoc list<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although I hope you&#8217;re up for this exploration of The Psychology of Self in Social Media, this course design (like any course design) will not appeal to everyone. If you&#8217;re certain you&#8217;ll be dropping this course, please do so soon. There are some people hoping to join us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year and welcome to Psyc 325: The Psychology of Self in Social Media! This website\u00a0functions as a living\u00a0course syllabus, and will be continually updated throughout the term. Before class on Tuesday, start\u00a0on the\u00a0Essentials page and work your way through the site to learn about the course.\u00a0Post a comment below\u00a0if you have questions or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/2016\/01\/03\/welcome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8079],"tags":[252,1300974],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logistics","tag-orientation","tag-prepare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psychsocialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}