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Social Media: WIIFM(Researchers)

Paul SpencerResearcherDevelopmentManager

@paulspencer42http://thedigitaldoctorate.com @uwegradschool

http://thedigitaldoctorate.com/http://thedigitaldoctorate.com/http://thedigitaldoctorate.com/http://thedigitaldoctorate.com/

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 What do we mean by social

media?

The important

thing is not thetools; more thatsocial media is

about peoplesharing things

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 “We don’t have a choice on whetherwe do social media, the question is

how well we do it”. – Erik Qualman 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Qualmanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Qualman

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Digital literacy survey (JISC + Vitae)

n=1301

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 Age gap?

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Hopes and Fears

Information overload

Digital IdentityIntellectual Property

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 We need filters

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Microblogging

Discovery and following topics - # (hashtags)

Find and follow colleagues - @paulspencer42

Re-tweeting (forwarding) useful stuff from your network

Continuing conversations with connections

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Probably the most useful thingabout twitter…

The people you follow arefiltering information for you!

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Finding time

Mostly it’s about

incorporating intodaily routine likechecking the newsand substituting forother activities

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Shallow work?

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Digital Identity – who am I?

Daddy?

Bass Player?

Cheesy DJ?

Microbiologist?

Researcher Developer!

We all have many sides to us…

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If I searched for you on the internet

"I'm Feeling Lucky" Business Card by Jason Theodore on Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jted/https://flic.kr/p/7wPLUYhttps://flic.kr/p/7wPLUYhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/jted/

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Compartmentalise?

Private self versus Professional?

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Intellectual Property

“The Bandit” by Vinylville available at Flickr  (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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The research cycle

Identification of

knowledge

Creation of

knowledge

Quality

assurance of

knowledge

Dissemination

of knowledge

e.g. undertaking

literature reviews

using peer reviewed

sources

by professional

researchers

usually behind

closed doors

e.g. publication,

presentation

at conference

e.g. peer review,

filtering the

best for publication

Collaboration

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1. Writing a paper

2. Developing a joint presentation

3.  Grant proposals

4.  Online meetings

5.  Sharing papers with your group

6.  Finding others in your field

7.  Disseminating your work

 Academic applications

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 Why do I blog?

• I write for me• Reflect on workshops I

have run

• By-product is it useful for

others• It has become my ownrepository

• Happy to share!

The Digital Doctorate blog 

http://www.thedigitaldoctorate.com/http://www.thedigitaldoctorate.com/

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Social Media – A Guide for Researchers 

 Vitae/Open University Handbook of Social Media 

 Vitae Digital Literacies survey report (2012) 

The Ed Techie – Martin Weller blog on digital scholarship/open ed 

Mark Carrigan – Social Media for Academics (2016) 

The Thesis Whisperer blog 

Patter – Prof. Pat Thomson’s blog 

Further resources

http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchershttps://www.vitae.ac.uk/vitae-publications/reports/innovate-open-university-social-media-handbook-vitae-2012.pdf/view?searchterm=social+mediahttp://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/48785366/Vitae%20DLhttp://blog.edtechie.net/https://markcarrigan.net/http://thesiswhisperer.com/http://patthomson.wordpress.com/http://patthomson.wordpress.com/http://thesiswhisperer.com/https://markcarrigan.net/http://blog.edtechie.net/http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/48785366/Vitae%20DLhttps://www.vitae.ac.uk/vitae-publications/reports/innovate-open-university-social-media-handbook-vitae-2012.pdf/view?searchterm=social+mediahttp://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers