Since many of you are in the 333 respondents in this study — thanks again to all of you — I thought you might be interested in our first official paper from the research. Anatoliy Gruzd, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Drew Paulin, Sarah Gilbert, and Marc Esteve del Valle. Uses and Gratifications factors for social media use in teaching: Instructors’ perspectives New Media & Society 1461444816662933, first published on August 9, 2016 as doi:10.1177/1461444816662933 Now available via Online First. Abstract here: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/08/08/1461444816662933.abstract Full paper here: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/recent<http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/recent#content-block> /Caroline Caroline Haythornthwaite ** joining Syracuse iSchool in Aug 2016 ** chaythor@syr.edu<mailto:chaythor@syr.edu> https://haythorn.wordpress.com/