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The Current and Future Use of Social Media Technologies (SMT) on Military Personnel and their Families

社交媒体技术 (SMT) 在军事人员及其家人中的当前和未来使用

基本信息

批准号：
ES/L000113/1
负责人：
David Denney
金额：
$ 30.27万
依托单位：
Royal Holloway University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL000113%2F1
关键词：
Current Future Use Social Media

项目摘要

The use of social media technologies (SMT) is one of the most important issues confronting the UK military in terms of maintaining operational security and managing morale amongst serving personnel and their families and friends. In the last decade, the UK military have been involved in a number of overseas campaigns (Afghanistan and Iraq) alongside more routine operations (e.g. Falklands and Cyprus) with implications for service personnel and their families in terms of coping with deployment rotation. The security implications regarding SMT range from the accidental to the calculating. With the advent of SMT, real-time geo-coded tweets from theatre are now a day to day reality facing military commanders as are regular Facebook postings by service families. So while MOD protocols and guidance exists including recognised and approved social media platforms (e.g. http://www.blogs.mod.uk/social-media-guidelines.html) senior military officers responsible for maintaining military welfare (e.g. Colonel Duncan Dewar of the Royal Marines and a member of our project advisory board) informed us that monitoring and possible intervention represents a major managerial challenge. Moreover, officially sanctioned online sites such as RN Com (https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/) co-exist with more public online platforms such as Facebook. Anticipating not only current usage but also like technological and behavioural innovation is a source of considerable anxiety for senior officers in the MOD (Colonel Dewar, per com, November 2012). This project draws together unique expertise in the fields of informatics, mathematical biology, human geography, geopolitics, sociology in order to address the quantity and actual content of this interactive process Previous research indicates that frequent electronic contact can have positive and negative consequences. Social media contact can increase the stress that soldiers are under having a negative impact on morale and group cohesion. Staying in touch can have purportedly 'stabilising' effects on military personnel, boosting morale. This research project adopts a three phase research model for researching and visualising social media communications, their online manifestations and their impact and influence on online and offline communities related to the UK military. After a thorough review of MOD and RM policies regarding SMT. This will be followed by a second more quantitative phase of research, during which we will undertake quantitative analysis of language usage and information flow on both officially sanctioned sites and more public sites such as Facebook and Twitter (we have been granted permission to access official military forums and to contact members directly and access the messaging chains). Language usage studies will include simple studies such as the usage and frequencies of different words, co-occurrences of words and phrases, and studies of other language features such as word endings. This quantitative stage will be complimented by qualitative and ethnographic research (stage three). For the purposes of this study we propose working within the Royal Marines communities based in Taunton (40 Commando) and Plymouth (42 Commando). This research will be undertaken using three distinct techniques; semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and user-generated 'diagrammings' or mappings. Colonel Duncan Dewar and his staff associated with Welfare Support at RN Portsmouth will facilitate introductions and access to these communities. This research will be initially undertaken through the deployment of semi-structured interviews with serving Royal Marines and their family members. The fourth phase of the research programme will allow for the active interaction of quantitatively-accrued data with the quantitative models developed in phase 1 and active development of policy-relevant findings.

社交媒体技术（SMT）的使用是英国军队在维护作战安全和管理现役人员及其家人和朋友的士气方面面临的最重要问题之一。在过去的十年里，英国军队已经参与了一些海外战役（阿富汗和伊拉克）以及更多的常规行动（如福克兰群岛和塞浦路斯），这对服务人员及其家属在应对部署轮换方面的影响。关于SMT的安全含义范围从意外到计算。随着SMT的出现，来自战区的实时地理编码推文现在成为军事指挥官日常面对的现实，就像服役家庭在Facebook上定期发布的帖子一样。因此，尽管存在国防部协议和指导，包括认可和批准的社交媒体平台（例如http://www.blogs.mod.uk/social-media-guidelines.html），但负责维护军事福利的高级军官（例如皇家海军陆战队的Duncan Dewar上校和我们项目顾问委员会的成员）告诉我们，监控和可能的干预是一项重大的管理挑战。此外，官方认可的网站如RN Com （https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/）与更多的公共网络平台如Facebook共存。不仅要预测当前的使用情况，还要像技术和行为创新一样，这是国防部高级官员相当焦虑的来源（Dewar上校，per com， 2012年11月）。该项目汇集了信息学、数学生物学、人文地理学、地缘政治、社会学等领域的独特专业知识，以解决这一互动过程的数量和实际内容。之前的研究表明，频繁的电子接触可能会产生积极和消极的后果。社交媒体接触会增加士兵承受的压力，对士气和团队凝聚力产生负面影响。据称，保持联系可以对军事人员产生“稳定”作用，提高士气。本研究项目采用三期研究模式，研究和可视化社交媒体传播及其在线表现，以及对与英国军方相关的线上和线下社区的影响和影响。在彻底审查了国防部和RM关于SMT的政策之后。接下来是第二个更定量的研究阶段，在此期间，我们将对官方认可的网站和更多的公共网站（如Facebook和Twitter）上的语言使用和信息流进行定量分析（我们已获准访问官方军事论坛，直接联系成员并访问消息链）。语言用法研究将包括简单的研究，如不同单词的使用和频率，单词和短语的共现，以及其他语言特征的研究，如词尾。这个定量阶段将得到定性和人种学研究（第三阶段）的补充。为了本研究的目的，我们建议在陶顿（40突击队）和普利茅斯（42突击队）的皇家海军陆战队社区工作。这项研究将使用三种不同的技术进行；半结构化访谈、焦点小组和用户生成的“图表”或映射。邓肯·杜瓦上校和他的工作人员与RN朴茨茅斯的福利支持有关，将促进介绍和进入这些社区。这项研究最初将通过对服役的皇家海军陆战队及其家庭成员进行半结构化访谈来进行。研究方案的第四阶段将允许在数量上积累的数据与在第一阶段拟订的数量模型积极相互作用，并积极拟订与政策有关的调查结果。