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Social Media for Researchers
Professor Richard Hall@hallymk1rhall1@dmu.ac.uk
Julia Reeve@DMUwritingpadjreeve@dmu.ac.uk
Lucy Atkins@LucyJCA
Bonnie Stewart
Overview
• Linking social media and research management to researcher development
• Demonstrating the potential of social media for academic practice/scholarship in public
• Demonstrating the potential of social media for co-operative, academic practice/scholarship
• Some considerations
Pre-session questions
• Which social media tools do you use?
• What do you use them to achieve in your academic work?
• What would you like to cover in the session or in a follow-up discussion?
• What are the ramifications of your work being social?
• A1: Knowledge Base
• B3: Professional and career development
• C1: Professional conduct
• D2: Communication and dissemination
• Available: http://bit.ly/1zn9o3m
The Vitae Researcher Development Framework
Useful tools:A1 Knowledge Base• Access/chance/trust: Twitter • Verification/trust: Subject blogs• Verification/trust: Open libraries• Resources/groups: Mendeley• Resources/groups: ResearchGate• Searching: Tagging,
folksonomies• Collecting: Evernote; Tumblr
Useful tools:B3 Professional and career development
• Networking/reputation: Twitter• Networking/reputation: LinkedIn • CPD: Subject blogs• Publication: Open libraries• Publication: Academia.edu• CPD/publication: Mendeley• CPD/publication: ResearchGate• Reputation: ImpactStory
Useful tools:C1 Professional conduct
• Collaborative work • Privacy settings• Intellectual Property• Permissions, use, sharing and
re-use [e.g. Creative Commons]
• Open data [Manchester; .gov]
• DMU-specific rights
Useful tools:D2 Communication and dissemination
• File sharing: Dropbox, Google Drive, Zend
• Conferencing Skype • Social presentation: Prezi,
SlideShare, Storify• Multimedia: YouTube
• Plus those in B3, above.
• What is Twitter?
• Who uses it?
• How does it benefit your research?
Ned Potter’s: Twitter for researchers
Blogging• What is a blog?
• Who uses blogs?
• Different blogging platforms?
• How does blogging benefit your research?
patter
• What is Linkedin?
• Who uses it?
• How does Linkedin benefit your research?
ResearchGate
• What is ResearchGate?
• Who uses it?
• How does ResearchGate benefit your research?
Researchgate
Lucy Atkins• Networking
• Promotion of my own work
• Learning about the work of others
• Sharing my work
• Reflecting on my work
Lucy Atkins
• Increasing my visibility• Measuring impact
Lucy Atkins• #PhDChat - general PhD community.• @Acwri/#Acrwri - Discussion and support group for academic
writing.• @SUWTUK/#shutupandwrite - Online shut up and write group.
1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month, 10am BST.• @thesiswhisperer - Dr Inger Mewburn is the managing editor of
the Thesis Whisperer blog, a highly useful collection of blog posts about every conceivable PhD concern.
• @PhDForum - Discussion and support group for PhD students.• @PhD2Published - home of #Acwrimo (academic writing month
- every November)• @ThomsonPat - Professor at University of Nottingham, author of
patter blog, another brilliant PhD/academia guidance blog.
Case Studies• Lucy Atkins: PhD
notes/verbs; standard open tech; links to Twitter; process of PhD
• Tressie McMillan Cottom: own site as pivot; structure; public scholarship; most read; events; personal academic formation
Case Studies
• Transition through PhD: #phdchat; Guardian HE Network; therapeutic networks;
• Writing: seven reasons why academic blogging is valuable; the DMU Commons
To consider
• Intensity of reading/research versus intensity of networking [time]
• How risk averse do you *need* to be?• How open do you *need* to be?• What is the balance between soft and
hard publishing?• How do you use your networks to
challenge your own orthodoxy?
To consider• What permissions do you need to use
stuff?• What permissions do you want to give
your stuff?• Think about your identity across
disparate platforms• Think about being true, necessary and
kind• Think about your e-safety [personal
relationships, the institution/funder, the State]
Support
• DMU Commons http://our.dmu.ac.uk/
• CELT Hub http://celt.our.dmu.ac.uk/
• DMU Social Media Policy http://www.dmu.ac.uk/documents/dmu-staff/pod/people-management-handbook/emailinternetandsocialmediapolicy.pdf
Further reading
• Common Craft simple overview videos https://www.commoncraft.com/videolist#technology
• Research Information Network: Social media for researchers http://www.rin.ac.uk/node/1009
• Mark Reed Fast Track Impact resources http://www.fasttrackimpact.com/#!resources/bt6xl
Further reading
Slides 8-12 in this presentation are amended from “Social Media for Researchers” by Tanya Williamson and Louise Tripp at Lancaster University Library.
Social Media for Researchers by Professor Richard Hall, Julia Reeve and Lucy Atkins is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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