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SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ACADEMICS
Why researchers should love Twitter
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AlessandroMininno
Gummy Ind. Consultancy Art/Culture
ARE YOURESEARCHERS?
PHDs?PROFESSORS?
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Discover interesting materialOrganize and study that stuffWrite groundbreaking papers
Publish them (possibily)Socialize with peers
I don’t really know what academic people does.I assume that you4
And you get paid for this, wow!
NOW, WHAT ISSOCIAL MEDIA AND WHY SHOULD YOU
LIKE IT?
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“Social media essentially is a category of online media where people are talking,
participating, sharing, networking, and bookmarking
online.” - Mass Relevance
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Definitions are so boring!
http://heidicohen.com/social-media-definition/
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OF THE WORLD POPULATION USES SOCIAL MEDIA
http://www.adzag.co/tag/social-media-2012/
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A new social network is born every week.
SO, WHY SHOULD THIS BE IMPORTANT
FOR YOU?
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I DIDN’T KNOW.SO, I ASKED
TO SOME ACADEMICS.
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“In terms of academic research, social media are useless.
Academic research practices are too far from the new world.”
- Stefano Mirti
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“Social media are useful to highlight new research, papers, conferences. They surely aren’t
research tool.”- Simona Casarotto
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“With Twitter I can follow my sociology-heroes without
having to ask for friendship and I receive real-time
updates about papers and conferences” - Ivana Pais
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“With Twitter academic research becomes open,
worldwide. That’s the real challenge” - Ivana Pais
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“I use social network to be up to date. I follow some
sociology departments on Twitter (Harvard and
Columbia), single professors and publishing houses”
- Cecilia Manzo
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“Twitter is fundamental thanks to information quality (and fast
timing)” - Stefano Mirti
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Say something “academic” in 140 characters
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How can I squeeze my 2000 character abstract?
Harvard does.
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Howard, the duck?
21 MANY ACADEMICS USE TWITTER
22 MANY ACADEMICS USE TWITTER
https://twitter.com/#!/LSEImpactBlog/stem-academic-tweeters/members
23 MANY UNIVERSITIES USE IT
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KLOUT IS A MEASURE OF
ONLINE INFLUENCE. IT’S A GOOD
PROXY OF RELEVANCE.
Half of the presentation.
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INBUZZERS.ORG IS A UNIVERSITY PROJECT ABOUT
ONLINE INFLUENCE
ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA.
Blatant self-promotion.
“FB is too democratic and prone to demagogy, nonsense
polemics that can’t be moderated without being accused of censorship”
- Remo Ricchetti
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“I don’t use social networks, but interesting news fly very
fast on Facebook thanks to my network of friends”
- Erica Bernardi
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“I follow some websites via RSS and some other via
Facebook. For some topics, we tend to ignore Facebook (and
that’s right)” - Christian Omodeo
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“Facebook is much more powerful than Twitter (in
absolute terms), but it’s very weak for the quality of the
content in it.” - Stefano Mirti
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STANFORD USES FACEBOOK TO PROMOTE THE
FEATURES OF THE CAMPUS
University or real-estate?
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DESIGN ROYALE IS A ONLINE LEARNING PROJECT COMPLETELY BASED ON FACEBOOK.
http://www.virtualeco.org/2011/07/design-royale-il-social-learning-con-facebook-e-possibile/
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ANTONIO SCARPONI
TAUGHT STUDENTS HOW
TO BUILD A “FISH AND CROPS
MOBILE UNIT”
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“Many new online/software platforms let you do research
and organize your content. Increasingly, they add social
and networking features” - Francesco Saviozzi
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“Academia.edu is very useful to publish and read papers.
Should be used more widely.” - Cecilia Manzo
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Discover interesting materialOrganize and study that stuffWrite groundbreaking papers
Publish them (possibily)Socialize with peers
So, assuming that you need to48
What would you use?
Got questions?
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