This longitudinal, quantitative study contributes to the debate on technology-based professional development by examining the extent to which a learning (LinkedIn) intervention in a university setting affects an individual’s social media use for professional development, and the extent to which this relates to self-reported employability. In addition, we investigated how this relationship is moderated by an individual’s motivation to communicate through social media (LinkedIn). Based on social capital theory and the conservation of resources theory, we developed a set of hypotheses that were tested based on longitudinal data collected from university employees (N = 101) in middle- and high-level jobs. First, in line with our expectations, social media use for professional development was significantly higher after the learning intervention than before. Second, partially in line with our expectations, social media use for professional development was positively related with the employability dimension anticipation and optimization. Third, contrary to our expectations, motivation to communicate through social media (LinkedIn) did not have a moderating role in this relationship. We concluded that the learning intervention has the potential to foster social media use for professional development, and in turn, can contribute to individuals’ human capital in terms of their employability. Hence, the intervention that forms the core of this empirical research can be a sustainable and promising human resource management (HRM) practice that fits the human capital agenda.
De opkomst van social media is een fenomeen. Waardoor komt de groei? Hoe ga je er verantwoord en succesvol mee om? Van groot belang bij zulke vragen is inzicht in wat deze media zijn, ofwel wat is de essentie van social media? In dit white paper beschrijven we de zeven karakteristieken die wij gebruiken om die essentie te begrijpen en om organisaties te adviseren en te begeleiden in het maken van hun keuzes
This paper presents a Decision Support System (DSS) that helps companies with corporate reputation (CR) estimates of their respective brands by collecting provided feedbacks on their products and services and deriving state-of-the-art key performance indicators. A Sentiment Analysis Engine (SAE) is at the core of the proposed DSS that enables to monitor, estimate, and classify clients’ sentiments in terms of polarity, as expressed in public comments on social media (SM) company channels. The SAE is built on machine learning (ML) text classification models that are cross-source trained and validated with real data streams from a platform like Trustpilot that specializes in user reviews and tested on unseen comments gathered from a collection of public company pages and channels on a social networking platform like Facebook. Such crosssource opinion analysis remains a challenge and is highly relevant in the disciplines of research and engineering in which a sentiment classifier for an unlabeled destination domain is assisted by a tagged source task (Singh and Jaiswal, 2022). The best performance in terms of F1 score was obtained with a multinomial naive Bayes model: 0,87 for validation and 0,74 for testing.
The European creative visual industry is undergoing rapid technological development, demanding solid initiatives to maintain a competitive position in the marketplace. AVENUE, a pan-European network of Centres of Vocational Excellence, addresses this need through a collaboration of five independent significant ecosystems, each with a smart specialisation. AVENUE will conduct qualified industry-relevant research to assess, analyse, and conclude on the immediate need for professional training and educational development. The primary objective of AVENUE is to present opportunities for immediate professional and vocational training, while innovating teaching and learning methods in formal education, to empower students and professionals in content creation, entrepreneurship, and innovation, while supporting sustainability and healthy working environments. AVENUE will result in a systematised upgrade of workforce to address the demand for new skills arising from rapid technological development. Additionally, it will transform the formal education within the five participating VETs, making them able to transition from traditional artistic education to delivering skills, mindsets and technological competencies demanded by a commercial market. AVENUE facilitates mobility, networking and introduces a wide range of training formats that enable effective training within and across the five ecosystems. A significant portion of the online training is Open Access, allowing professionals from across Europe to upgrade their skills in various processes and disciplines. The result of AVENUE will be a deep-rooted partnership between five strong ecosystems, collaborating to elevate the European industry. More than 2000 professionals, employees, students, and young talents will benefit from relevant and immediate upgrading of competencies and skills, ensuring that the five European ecosystems remain at the forefront of innovation and competitiveness in the creative visual industry.
This project develops a European network for transdisciplinary innovation in artistic engagement as a catalyst for societal transformation, focusing on immersive art. It responds to the professionals in the field’s call for research into immersive art’s unique capacity to ‘move’ people through its multisensory, technosocial qualities towards collective change. The project brings together experts leading state-of-the-art research and practice in related fields with an aim to develop trajectories for artistic, methodological, and conceptual innovation for societal transformation. The nascent field of immersive art, including its potential impact on society, has been identified as a priority research area on all local-to-EU levels, but often suffers from the common (mis)perception as being technological spectacle prioritising entertainment values. Many practitioners create immersive art to enable novel forms of creative engagement to address societal issues and enact change, but have difficulty gaining recognition and support for this endeavour. A critical challenge is the lack of knowledge about how their predominantly sensuous and aesthetic experience actually lead to collective change, which remains unrecognised in the current systems of impact evaluation predicated on quantitative analysis. Recent psychological insights on awe as a profoundly transformative emotion signals a possibility to address this challenge, offering a new way to make sense of the transformational effect of directly interacting with such affective qualities of immersive art. In parallel, there is a renewed interest in the practice of cultural mediation, which brings together different stakeholders to facilitate negotiation towards collective change in diverse domains of civic life, often through creative engagements. Our project forms strategic grounds for transdisciplinary research at the intersection between these two developments. We bring together experts in immersive art, psychology, cultural mediation, digital humanities, and design across Europe to explore: How can awe-experiences be enacted in immersive art and be extended towards societal transformation?
In dit project wordt onderzoek gedaan naar de 21st century skills van de social media architect. Dat is een aansprekend nieuw beroep, dat cross-overs kent tussen onder meer communicatie en IT & Design. De beschrijvingen van de 21st century skills worden op beeldende wijze gekoppeld aan reële beroepshandelingen en beroepsproducten. Voor het voortgezet onderwijs is dit van belang om een concreet en actueel beeld te kunnen laten zien van een dergelijk nieuw beroep omdat hun leerlingen een keuze moeten maken voor vervolgonderwijs. Bovendien willen zij graag onderzoeken hoe zij hun leerlingen kunnen voorbereiden op dit nieuwe beroep. Voor bedrijven die nieuwe medewerkers willen aantrekken is het eveneens zaak om zicht te krijgen op de profielen en de bijbehorende 21st century skills. Ons onderwijssysteem kent geen gebaande paden of geijkte toeleveranciers voor nieuwe beroepen waardoor ze lastig het juiste personeel kunnen vinden. In dit project: ‘Beroepen in Transitie: het belang van het laten zien van cross-overs in de techniek’ worden de 21st century skills beschreven in de context waarin de social media architect opereert, en de verschillende rollen waarin hij/zij aan het werk kan zijn. Dit onderzoek beoogt een realistisch beroepsbeeld neer te zetten door de 21st century skills te koppelen aan actuele beroepshandelingen en -producten om potentieel geïnteresseerde scholieren, studenten en professionals daar zo goed mogelijk op voor te bereiden en een gefundeerde keuze te bevorderen. Daarmee kunnen we beter aan de groeiende vraag naar technische professionals voldoen, die daarvoor ook passende talenten hebben. Bovendien is dit project een voorbeeld van hoe bedrijven met het onderwijs samen kunnen komen tot een vernieuwing van functieprofielen en toekomstbestendig opleiden ten behoeve van de veranderende arbeidsmarkt. Het is tevens een voorbeeld voor andere beroepen, vandaar de parallelle aanvraag Zorg (ook De Haagse Hogeschool en Inholland).
