Negotiating Visibility: Mediating Presence through Zoom Camera Choices in Post-Secondary Students during COVID-19

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

In the title of the article, there is no link to the abstract and section 1.6. It is advisable to choose another one. If you keep this title, everything else should converge more towards it.

In the abstract it is better to add: the problem that led to this research; the objectives of this research; the methodology used; the importance of the study.

Sections 1.4 and 1.5 are too poor. The expansion of these sections depends on the choice of title (whether you choose another one or keep the current one).

Is it better to explain why the 7-point Likert scale was chosen.

Section 1.6 'This study' is more suitable as an 'introduction' section, while sections 1.1 to 1.5 are more suitable as a 'theoretical framework' section.

It is necessary to include the limitations of this study.

In section 2: you should specify the type of methodology used: quantitative, mixed, qualitative, etc. What type of statistics (econometric models) were used.

The methodology can be divided into the following sections: Samples and data collection; Instrument; Procedures; Analyses.

For a wider audience, it would be advisable to explain the F-statistic and the p-value in line 313.

 

In the references, only 17 are from the year 2023, while the rest are from 2021 and earlier. More recent literature is recommended.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

We are sending along a revised manuscript titled:

  Decisions about camera on/off among university students during COVID-19 
and attitudes toward social media 

This manuscript has been rewritten to make it more readily accessible to scholars from different disciplines. Every section has been worked on.

If we have missed papers with directly relevant data, we will be pleased to add them in a further draft.

Sincerely,
Gerald C. Cupchik, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Please provide more details about the research gap, the time period of data collection, and the interpretation of data. Furthermore, explore the specific findings to demonstrate their novelty. 

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

We are sending along a revised manuscript titled:

  Decisions about camera on/off among university students during COVID-19 
and attitudes toward social media 

This manuscript has been rewritten to make it more readily accessible to scholars from different disciplines. Every section has been worked on.

If we have missed papers with directly relevant data, we will be pleased to add them in a further draft.

Sincerely,
Gerald C. Cupchik, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology

Reviewer 3 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Peer Review report- 2024-06-26

Manuscript details:

Journal: Societies

Manuscript ID: societies-3069896

Type of manuscript: Article

Title: Negotiating Visibility: Mediating presence through Zoom camera choices in post-secondary students during COVID-19

 

-        Comments for Authors

 

Dear Sir / Madam:

Thank you for this article, whose topic is current. The topic of the article is relevant to teaching-learning in higher education and, more specifically, to experience-based synchronous and asynchronous distance learning during and as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, its results and conclusions can be used for other studies that focus on various aspects of the online class with the aim of creating a comfortable multimodal space for the student and the teacher in the 'new' educational paradigm shift.

• Quality of Presentation: the article is written appropriately.

• Scientific soundness: the procedure is clearly stated to the reader and may allow future researchers to build on these results and continue with new investigations.

• Interest to readers: the study is of interest to pedagogues and researchers in the field of education and even new technologies that develop tools that improve distance teaching and Hyflex learning, which will allow optimizing the teaching process in an inclusive way for students.

• Originality/Novelty: the question is well defined.

• Significance: the conclusions are justified

Finally, I would like to express that the study carried out complies with the established ethical principles.

• English level: yes

Recommendations:

1-    Perhaps it would be appropriate to present in the material and method chapter about how you carry out the analysis (factor analysis).

2-    Line 11 and 17> 2 ‘finally’

3-    Line 116 and 121> ‘The present study’

Kind regards,

PR

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

We are sending along a revised manuscript titled:

  Decisions about camera on/off among university students during COVID-19 
and attitudes toward social media 

This manuscript has been rewritten to make it more readily accessible to scholars from different disciplines. Every section has been worked on.

If we have missed papers with directly relevant data, we will be pleased to add them in a further draft.

Sincerely,
Gerald C. Cupchik, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology

Reviewer 4 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The article covers an interesting topic, but several elements need to be refined. Section 1.4 should be refined by citing research on education rather than Pokemon GO, etc. The findings cited in this section are selective and not relevant to the topic of the article. Below are some articles that the authors can refer to:

Meng W, Yu L, Liu C, Pan N, Pang X and Zhu Y (2024) A systematic review of the effectiveness of online learning in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Front. Educ. 8:1334153. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1334153

Alfiriani, A., Rini, F., Darman, R. A., & Rindaningsih, I. (2023). A meta-analysis of online learning practices during the Covid 19 pandemic. Pedagogia : Jurnal Pendidikan, 13(1), 61 - 70. https://doi.org/10.21070/pedagogia.v13i1.1621

Xu T and Xue L (2023) Satisfaction with online education among students, teachers, and parents before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: Evidence from a meta-analysis. Front. Psychol. 14:1128034. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1128034

The methodological section should indicate what research questions and hypotheses were posed in the submitted study, on what theoretical and empirical premises they were based, and what rationale led the researchers to choose these questions and not others in the survey.  In addition, the discussion does not contain any references to other research results or works on a similar topic, it is only a summary of the authors' results, the results obtained should be explained by relating them to previous studies. In addition, the limitations of the described study should be described.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

We are sending along a revised manuscript titled:

  Decisions about camera on/off among university students during COVID-19 
and attitudes toward social media 

This manuscript has been rewritten to make it more readily accessible to scholars from different disciplines. Every section has been worked on.

If we have missed papers with directly relevant data, we will be pleased to add them in a further draft.

Sincerely,
Gerald C. Cupchik, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The requested revision was well done

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

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Reviewer 4 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The article has been revised as suggested in the previous review. I have no further comments on the submitted text.