Building and maintaining your digital research profile

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Building and maintaining your digital research profile

Terese Bird, Educational Designer and SCORE Research Fellow, Leicester Medical SchoolSchool of Education Summer School, 27 June 2015

What shall we talk about and do today?• Introduction

• Map ourselves

• Research cycle/profile

• Social tools– What they do– Real life examples– Ethics

• Change, add, or begin one thing

Photo by Emma Taylor on Flickr

University of Leicester advice

Charities making use of images & video

Draw your online profile

5 min

Academic Digital Profile: Cristina Costa on Flickr

A researcher’s digital profile – what I say and what I show about myself & my work• What I say about myself – website, blog

• My work – – Papers: Academia.edu, ResearchGate– Presentations & Posters: Slideshare– Video: YouTube, Vimeo– Photos & images: Flickr, Instagram, Pinterest

• My reflections – blog

• My search & curation – Scoop.it, Twitter

• Facebook & Twitter notify about all of the above

University staff 2014 : various nations, various career stagesN=711

(Lupton, 2014)

The academic research cycle

(Cann et al., 2011, p. 15)

Historical research tasksON THE INTERNET

• Community• Digital materials• Discover• Disseminate

Sengaw.wordpress.com

(Swatman, n.d.)

• The study initially aimed to explore pre-service teachers’ perceptions and use of social media on their school placements by setting up groups on Facebook and Twitter. However, several problems occurred in relation to the recruitment of participants. It became increasingly clear that there was significance in the positionality of the researcher as an “outsider” to the research context and the potential role for gatekeepers in understanding remote research sites.

Reilly (2013): YouTube, sousveillance and the ‘anti-Tesco’ riot in Stokes Croft

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpPM2NXLK-c

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Overview of study:• N=1018 comments left under four most commented-upon

videos showing eyewitness perspectives on policing of disturbances

• Study examines whether commentators perceived this footage as a form of hierarchical sousveillance (inverse surveillance)

• Little rational debate about the broader issues e.g. legitimacy of No Tesco campaign and media narratives often reproduced by commenters

• Only a very small number of users perceived this footage as hierarchical sousveillance

Reilly (2014) Ethical stance for the study of the ‘Battle of Stokes Croft’

• There did not appear to be a public benefit in exposing these unaware participants to potential harm through the use of their ‘semi-published’ comments as published artefacts

• Maximum level of disguise possible provided to participants via the removal of usernames and direct quotes from academic publications.

• “This doesn’t mean that the default position should be to please participants through the redaction of potentially harmful content from datasets. [……] This paper has shown the importance of empowering researchers to make informed ethical decisions that protect the right to privacy for unaware participants when it is appropriate to do so” Reilly, 2014:13)

Caveats: burnout, private/professional mix

• Social media use by researchers:

“The justification for it is bigger than it ever was, but the problems are bigger than they ever were.”

- Social media in research early adopter

Facebook page

Facebook group

Blogs – open research notebook

Blog for research and teaching

http://pauljreillydot.com

http://pauljreillydot.com

Twitter – short messages call attention to other platforms

Storify: curate tweets from conferences

• https://storify.com/PaulJReilly/media-for-social-change-unconference-birmingham-ci

Professional social networking sites:

Linkedin Academia.edu

Scoop.it: Research, Curate, and Draw readers to your project website

YouTube – power of video

Vimeo – YouTube alternative

Flickr & Pinterest– visual research

Pinterest – bookmarking (visual)

SoundCloud & AudioBoo - audio

Slideshare – elevate your presentations

Google Docs – project collaboration

Kwiksurveys & SurveyMonkey

Tip to make a change, add, or begin:Try one or two for 10 minutes a day

Task Tool

Show yourself as a presenter YouTube, Vimeo, AudioBoo, SoundCloud, Slideshare

Show yourself as a writer Blog

Share your findings All (match the format!)

Keep up on hot news in your field

Twitter, Facebook, Scoop.it

Collaborate with other researchers

Google Docs, Google Hangouts, Twitter, Facebook

Organise Storify, Pinterest, Scoop.it

Your online CV LinkedIn, Academia.edu

References• AberfieldCommunications (2013) Charities in Social Media: The Power of Images, Leeds, [online] Available from:

http://www.aberfield.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Charities-in-Social-Media-The-Power-of-Images1.pdf (Accessed 25 June 2015).

• Barnes, N., Lescault, A. and Augusto, K. (2014) ‘2015 Fortune 500 and Social Media - UMass Dartmouth’, UMass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research, [online] Available from: http://www.umassd.edu/cmr/socialmediaresearch/2015fortune500andsocialmedia/ (Accessed 25 June 2015).

• Cann, A. J., Dimitriou, K. and Hooley, T. (2011) Social media: A guide for researchers | Research Information Network, [online] Available from: http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers (Accessed 6 September 2013).

• Costa, C. (2009) ‘My digital academic profile’, Flickr.

• Kontopoulou, K. and Fox, A. (2015) ‘Designing a consequentially based study into the online support of pre-service teachers in the UK’, Educational Research and Evaluation, Routledge, 21(2), pp. 122–138, [online] Available from: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13803611.2015.1024422?journalCode=nere20& (Accessed 26 June 2015).

• Lenhart, A. (2015) Teens, Social Media and Technology Overview 2015, [online] Available from: http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2015/04/PI_TeensandTech_Update2015_0409151.pdf.

• Lupton, D. (2014) ‘Feeling Better Connected’: Academics’ Use of Social Media, [online] Available from: http://www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/faculties/arts-design/attachments2/pdf/n-and-mrc/Feeling-Better-Connected-report-final.pdf (Accessed 27 June 2015).

• Ofcom (2014) Adults’ Media Use and Attitudes Report 2014 | Ofcom, [online] Available from: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/other/research-publications/adults/adults-media-lit-14/ (Accessed 25 June 2015).

• Russell, V. (2014) ‘Using Twitter for Research Projects — University of Leicester’, University of Leicester website, [online] Available from: http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/cap/marcomms/communications/social/handbook/twitter/using-twitter-for-research-projects (Accessed 25 June 2015).

• Swatman, P. (n.d.) Microsoft PowerPoint - Swatman Ethics & Social Media Research.pptx - Swatman-Ethics-and-Social-Media-Research.pdf, [online] Available from: http://www.deakin.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/269701/Swatman-Ethics-and-Social-Media-Research.pdf (Accessed 22 June 2015).