A really interesting Google Hangout discussion. I’ll be taking part in a follow up later this month:
Tag Archive for ‘social media’
Trolling, public engagement and the sociology of knowledge
In recent months, I’ve become preoccupied by how we make sense of the experiences of academics being harassed or trolled when using social media. My initial interest in this was in my capacity as a trainer and consultant. One of… Read More ›
Making an Impact with Social Media, July 5th in Manchester
Social media offers for exciting opportunities for generating impact and communicating research beyond the academy. However, 500 million tweets and 3 million blog posts that are generated in a single day, as well as over a billion websites, pose an obvious challenge: how… Read More ›
Public Engagement and Social Media
There’s a really important piece in the LSE Impact Blog by Philip Moriarty describing his experiences using social media for public engagement. In many ways he has been the embodiment of the engaged academic, driven by a sense of responsibility… Read More ›
Making an Impact with Social Media, July 5th in Manchester
Many researchers are excited about the potential social media offers for making an impact with their work. However 500 million tweets per day, 3 million blog posts per day and over a billion websites poses an obvious challenge: how can… Read More ›
To understand social media for academics, we have to kill the idea of social media for academics
In the 30+ talks I have done about social media in the last year, I have discussed many things. But the one theme that has been most prominent is the extrinsic, rather than intrinsic, complexity of the subject matter. There… Read More ›
The Technology of Intellectual Work
In 1988 Pierre Bourdieu chaired a commission reviewing the curriculum at the behest of the minister of national education. The scope of the review was broad, encompassing a revision of subjects taught in order to strengthen the coherence and unity… Read More ›
Social media didn’t create the ambition to rethink scholarly communication, it gave us the tools to do it effectively
When we talk about the possibilities which social media offer for rethinking scholarly communication, it’s easy to slip into the trap of thinking this ambition is a new one. We counterpoise the ‘new’ and the ‘old’, the innovative and the traditional, the digital… Read More ›
Social media and populism
This excellent essay by Jan-Werner Müller in the London Review of Books raises an important issue about the forms of political mobilisation facilitated by social media: Trump has called himself the Hemingway of the 140 characters. He has ‘the best… Read More ›
Social media for academics and the increasing toxicity of the online ecology
In the last few months, I’ve begun to seriously plan a much more sophisticated follow-up to Social Media for Academics, investigating the implications of social media for academic labour. A crucial aspect of this, which seems likely to become much more… Read More ›
Social Media For Academics: Things To Try
Social Media For Academics: Things To Try
Social Media and Public Sociology
It can seem obvious that there’s some relationship between social media and public sociology. After all, these are platforms which offer free, instantaneous and immediate access to audiences ranging from the tens of millions to the billions. However unpacking the relationship… Read More ›
Social Media and Open Research: What Does ‘Open’ Mean?
In the not too distant past, the use of social media in higher education was seen as a curiosity at best. Perhaps something to be explained or inquired into but certainly not something deemed relevant to scholarship. Yet it’s now increasingly… Read More ›
Academia.edu: How to reproduce inequality in several easy steps
A study waiting to be done. Somebody? Here is the trigger: So: how is academia.edu reproducing and reinforcing inequality? By spatially positioning the male academic above; By choosing an older male academic and a younger female; By listing the male as… Read More ›
Social Media and Open Research: What Does ‘Open’ Mean?
In the not too distant past, the use of social media in higher education was seen as a curiosity at best. Perhaps something to be explained or inquired into but certainly not something deemed relevant to scholarship. Yet it’s now increasingly… Read More ›
The Pseudo-Catharsis of Social Media
From Rethinking Social Exclusion, by Simon Winlow and Steve Hall, pg 73: Political protests these days are taken not as an indication that something is going wrong and that a significant number of the population are dissatisfied with the nation’s… Read More ›
An Open Access Series of Books on Why We Post
I’ve just started working my way through this series of books produced by UCL’s massive Why We Post project. The past work of the project team is fantastic and I’m hopeful this will prove to be an important series of… Read More ›
Social Media and Academic Labour
It is increasingly hard to move without encountering the idea that social media is something of value for academics. The reasons offered are probably quite familiar by now. It helps ensure your research is visible, both inside and outside the… Read More ›
The idiocy of corporations on Twitter
A lovely feature by John Oliver about the idiocy of corporations on Twitter: For a deeper analysis of corporations on Twitter, see this great essay on weird corporate twitter: We all know that a corporation’s Twitter account is managed by a social-media worker (despite… Read More ›
What happens in an internet minute?
HT @simonlindgren
The size of social networks and the size of nation states
A really interesting way of looking at this:
Using @IFTTT and Twitter to curate material for research projects
Two new projects I’m in the early stages of working on both necessitate engagement with phenomena that are developing rapidly. This poses an obvious question: how to identify relevant material and then archive it in a useful way? I’ve written… Read More ›
Call for blog posts: the lived experience of interdisciplinarity in social research
Following on from our succesful workshop at Social Media & Society 2016, the Digital Social Science Forum is seeking blog posts describing and reflecting on the lived experience of interdisciplinarity in social research. The workshop itself sought to explore conceptual… Read More ›
A brilliant job for those interested in social media and higher education
The LSE Impact Blog is recruiting for a new editor: The LSE Impact Blog is an award-winning, highly popular blog aimed at academics, researchers, and HE professionals. It publishes regular blog posts on scholarly publishing, research methods, and maximizing the… Read More ›
Social media and academic labour
In recent years, we’ve begun to see social media move from the periphery to the mainstream of academic practice. But what does this mean for academic labour? While much of the discussion concerns the possibilities for scholarly communication, what about… Read More ›
Making the Most of Social Media
Social media has changed a lot since I began my PhD. But what’s notable about this is that I didn’t start my PhD particularly long ago. When I began in 2008, my blogging was a personal hobby which I couldn’t… Read More ›
Using social media to map scholarly literatures
At a time when there are more than 28,100 active scholarly peer-reviewed journals publishing around 1.8-1.9 million articles per year, finding ways to navigate scholarly literatures are more important than ever. This is one of the most exciting ways in which social… Read More ›
Sustaining your focus throughout the working day
An extract from Social Media for Academics In recent years we’ve seen the notion of ‘internet addiction’ enter the popular consciousness. As a self-description it’s sometimes invoked facetiously, sometimes desperately and occasionally in a way which combines the two. It… Read More ›
The value of university managed online spaces
A superb article by Sierra Williams, editor of the LSE Impact Blog, building on a talk she did at an event in Sheffield last week:
Academic life and the marketplace of ideas
This is an extract from Social Media for Academics by Mark Carrigan The ‘marketplace of ideas’ is a term I found irritatingly trite when I first heard it. I’ve since come to think it captures something important, namely the environment in… Read More ›