This interesting article in the Guardian Higher Ed reports on empirical data which supports something I’ve believed for quite some time: communications offices are, at least in some respects, ill suited to using social media for student recruitment. Their role as an official channel… Read More ›
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Can academics manage without Twitter?
Following David Hill’s post about joining Twitter, I’ve been thinking again about joining Twitter. A few months I posted about Twitter. In that post I spoke about my concerns of constant connection and the work it seemed to require, amongst other things. I’m not… Read More ›
CfP: Social Media in Social Research
The Social Research Association is holding the third Social Media in Social Research Conference on Monday June 24 in central London. Following the success of the first two events, we would like to receive papers and presentations on this subject… Read More ›
The Definitive Guide to Academic Social Media
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“Why do you find Twitter useful as an academic?” (part 2)
The original version of this post got an interesting comment yesterday. We hope the author won’t mind us reposting the comment as a new post. It was a quick content analysis of the answers in the original post. So… why do you… Read More ›
“Why do you find Twitter useful as an academic?”
This was the question I asked earlier this morning on Twitter. I was preparing a workshop on twitter for academics and was a little nervous about my content. The basic point of the workshop was to convince participants about the value of… Read More ›
“Why do you find blogging useful as a researcher?”
I asked this question on Twitter in preparation for a blogging for researchers workshop I was running at the University of Warwick. I’ve included some of the answers I received below. I’ve also collated a collection of resources here. Part of the… Read More ›
The Vaue of Multi-Author Blogging for Communicating Research
The word ‘blogging’ often has negative connotations. Yet blogging can be understood both as an output and as a platform. Many negative views about blogging are connected to a certain idea of what it is: a single author, using it as a forum to… Read More ›
What is ‘academic blogging’?
This question has been on my mind a lot this week. Largely because it occurred to me that I have yet to encounter a non-trivial answer to it. Sure, it’s easy to say academic blogging is blogging by academics. But what does this really tell… Read More ›
Facebook Graph Search: @PaulBernalUK explains what this is all about…
The first thing to ask whenever Facebook (or indeed any other business) releases a new product or service is what’s in it for them. In the case of Facebook’s new ‘Graph Search’, as in most things Facebook, the answer’s pretty… Read More ›
Academic blogging – both/and rather than either/or
How do you feel about academic blogging? If you are reading this then, chances are, you feel reasonably well inclined towards it. However if you are an academic blogger then you will undoubtedly be aware that many people are not so well… Read More ›
Digital Sociologist #2: Les Back from @SociologyGold
In this podcast Mark Carrigan talks to Les Back from Goldsmiths about his Academic Diary project. So what is the Academic Diary? How did the idea for the project come about? What did the process of crafting it entail? Was the experience… Read More ›
Academia 2.0
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Looking for a new year’s resolution? @PaulbernalUK offers a suggestion some readers may find unthinkable
If you’re looking for a New Year’s Resolution – have you considered leaving Facebook? There are many reasons to do so, and getting more compelling all the time – all it takes is a little resolution. 1) Privacy Everyone should… Read More ›
“What on earth will I tweet about?”: Feeling Comfortable with Social Media
“What on earth will I tweet about?” from Mark Carrigan
The Tweets and the Streets: an interview with Paolo Gerbaudo
In this interview Mark Carrigan talks to Paolo Gerbaudo about his new book Tweets and the Streets. In a fascinating study based on ethnographic fieldwork during the Egyptian revolution, the author deftly charts a course which avoids the extremes that polarise the… Read More ›
“Ultimately, if I’m honest, I do it because it’s fun”
In this short podcast recorded at a Digital Change GPP discussion event earlier this year, Eleonora Belfiore discusses her experience of using social media as an academic.
Some podcasting resources
The BSA PG Forum podcasting handbook An introduction to academic podcasting Audacity – free audio editor Call recorder for Skype (probably free ones out there but this is great) Tool to convert to or from MP3 The Sociological Imagination podcast section (e-mail here to… Read More ›
Nine resources for academics getting started with Twitter
Register for Twitter and find researchers to follow Engage with your network on Twitter “Why do you find Twitter useful as an academic?” The LSE’s list of academic twitter users Support, engagement, visibility and personalised news: Twitter has a lot to… Read More ›
Advice on introducing Twitter to academics
Twitter has a definite image problem. It first penetrated the public consciousness in a way which has left it defined by celebrities and, particularly for academics, this is unattractive. If you want to persuade academics to use it, it’s important… Read More ›
Using social media for impact and public engagement – a case study of @projectmyplace
In this podcast Mark Carrigan talks to Martin Price of the MYPLACE project (it was originally recorded for the Digital Change GPP). MYPLACE brings together 16 universities across 14 European countries, as well 14 other public institutions. It’s a massive and fascinating project, looking at… Read More ›
Academia 2.0
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