Social media for PhD researchers

Social media for PhD researchers

Dr Jenna Condie @jennacondie#SSAPChat

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Social media…

“a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations

of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of User Generated Content”

(Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010, p. 61)

Are you using social media to share your PhD research? If yes, how? If no, why not?

I started using social media during my PhD...

…and kept twittering on! Why?

Opening doorsNew opportunitiesFind my voicePersonal ‘brand’ Keep track Share researchDo researchTeaching practices EmployabilityAn invaluable network…

#help…

My twitter network help me do my job…

What they said

Finding, connecting, sharing

For promoting your own research?

Engaging with many audiences

Future trends…look towards the PhD community!

Tweet your PhD in 140 characters

• Include #SSAPChat • and #TweetYourPhD• - 22 = 118 characters• #sorrynotsorry• But you can include links or images!

Be the SSAP ‘Twitterati’!

1. Follow @SSAPChat http://twitter.com/ssapchat

2. Tweet and include #SSAPChat

3. Share colleagues’ work with your networks please retweet!

We all have something to say

and something to share

Share your presentations

Aggregate and expand through blogging

Monitor and measure

“If (social media interaction is often) then (Open access + social media = increased downloads)”

Melissa Terras (2012)

Social media, research citations and impact

Sharing your content on LinkedIn to develop your professional identities

Sharing your research on academic networking sites

Go where your audiences are

One last thing…

• Google the person next to you –Can you find them? –Are they contactable? –Do they present themselves well?

• When you get home, Google yourself! • My citations on Google Scholar

Resources • #PhDChat #ECRChat #NSMNSS • Engaging Research: Digital Practices of Engaged Researchers (Open University video)• Minocha, S., & Petre, M. (2012)

Handbook of social media for researchers and supervisors Digital technologies for research dialogues, Vitae Innovate and The Open University

• Woodfield, K. (2014) Social media in social research: blogs on blurring the boundaries, e-book

• LSE Twitter Guide • New Social Media, New Social Science – blog & twitter• ESRC How to build a presence on Twitter • A to Z of social media for academics (Prof Andy Miah) • Playing with Altmetrics (Research Whisperer) • Altmetrics Guide (UWS) • Altmetrics Guide (QUT) • Altmetric Bookmarklet• Eysenbach (2011) Can Tweets Predict Citations?

GRS Workshop @ Parramatta campus 20th AugSocial media, doctoral studies, and the wider community

Social media for PhD researchers

Dr Jenna Condie @jennacondie#SSAPChat

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