Social Media for Reseachers #sotondiglit

NOTES: Given as part of the Digital Literacies conference at the University of Southampton, 14th June 2012. Event details here: http://www.diglit.soton.ac.uk/conference/programme/presentations/ This presentation outlines themes that I would like to explore as part of a workshop on the 4th July 2012. The idea of the workshop is to spend an afternoon recording interviews with researchers about their uses of social media, and to brainstorm a variety of themes, creating resources on a wiki for use throughout (and outside of) the University. Open to all interested parties. Workshop details, and free tickets, here: http://www.diglit.soton.ac.uk/events/social-media-for-researchers/

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First theme for consideration: the definition of social media. Its more than just using twitter and having a blog. Considering things like reach, decentralised nature, immediacy, permanence, etc.

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Second theme: exploring private and public spaces. i.e. Institutional level social media, personal social media, worldwide social media. Considering also differing options for disclosure.

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Theme 3: Personal brand management Little joke here: Ji Lee’s Google Me business cards. But also brand management for your research project, your department, your discipline, your institution, etc.

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Theme 4: The wheel of research Knowledge identification, creation, affirmation, dissemination. Social media can contribute at ALL points of the lifecycle of research. Its not just restricted to dissemination.

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Theme 5: Management of research. Using social bookmarking, citation, project management, etc.

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Theme 6: Conversations! Specialised support networks. Corridor/coffee break conversations. Managing different groups. Bringing past and present contacts/networks together. Maintaining connections, re-connecting. Crowdsourcing.

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Theme 7: Reusing research. Storage, archiving, sharing. How to recycle data, and resource discovery. Publishing negative data that someone else might use.

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Theme 8: Making connections between unanticipated things.

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Theme 9: New forms of publishing. Being involved in all forms of publishing. Including quick dissemination such as Paper.li, micro-blogging, blogging, aggregating, curating. Also publishing negative data for use by someone else. E.g. Figshare giving DOI to all data.

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Issues to consider: IP and copyright.

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Consideration: Social media can contribute to filtering information and managing time, rather than being the thing that causes these problems.

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The workshop on the 4th July, ‘Managing your online social media profile as a researcher’, is advertised on the Digital Literacies website, and I will add more information about it on my own blog (http://theculturalheritageweb.wordpress.com/) over the next couple of weeks. Please do join the event if you can come along.

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