Student Affairs Women’s and Men’s Programs will host a discussion board about gender issues and the influence of social media from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today in the Campus Commons.

Assistant Dean of Student Development Services Cyndi Walsh said the goal for The Gender Social Network event is to promote dialogue and conversation about gender issues and how certain social networking sites, such as Facebook, affect those issues.

She said discussion tables with staff facilitators will be available as well as panels with media comments and quotes that students are encouraged to read or discuss.

The driving factors for the event were the conversations heard in Women’s and Men’s Programs after watching the movie “The Social Network,” she said.

Examples of topics for discussion include Facebook profile updates and the dynamics of the online relationship between men and women.

“We hope that they will have opportunities to talk with each other around topics of gender,” Walsh said. “And we hope that they will think critically about the facts or quotes that are being put forth in current media.”

The Gender Social Network

When: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today

Where: Campus Commons

The Gender Social Network sessions:

Status: It’s Complicated, 11&-11:30 a.m.

Are you “Facebook Official?” Does listing yourself as “engaged” get more responses than being accepted to graduate school, getting a job or getting promoted?

Profile Update, 11:30 a.m.&-noon

Once you graduate, will you update your profile to aspiring homemaker or career-driven professional?

iChat, uChat, Noon&-12:30 p.m.

But do men and women really understand each other?

#menindecline, 12:30&-1 p.m.

Women are enrolling, getting involved, and graduating from college at higher rates than men. Are men getting left behind?