Facebook, quelle aventure... - Carnet de bord d’une enseignante-documentaliste. Facebook Tests Smaller Version of 'Trending Articles' in Newsfeed. Facebook is testing a smaller, less invasive version of the "Trending Articles" insert that began appearing in some users' Newsfeeds earlier this month.
Now, instead of displaying a vertical block of stories — between three and six, from the screenshots we saw before — users see just one headline, accompanied by a thumbnail, source, introductory text and the name(s) of the friend(s) who have already read it. To see more Trending Articles, users can click an arrow in the upper-right hand corner. The change will undoubtedly result in less engagement but it does economize space in the Newsfeed. Facebook Social Readers Are All Collapsing. What’s next, as Facebook use in UK universities continues to grow? How widely is Facebook used within higher education?
And does ‘liking’ a university’s Facebook page really signify engagement between the student and the institution? Brian Kelly looks at whether the social networking service should be viewed as a digital mailing list, or if it has a role to play as a platform for the development of new services. Facebook Usage for Russell Group UniversitiesIn order to gather evidence to support discussions on the relevance of use of Facebook in the higher education sector a survey of Facebook usage, determined by links for institutional pages, has been carried out for the 20 Russell Group universities.
This survey follows on from previous surveys carried in in January and September 2011 which will enable trends to be detected. Note that the full data from the following table is available as a Google Spreadsheet.