an introduction to social media and research
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a presentation to the DMU Business and Law Faculty Research Student away day, on May 23 2011.TRANSCRIPT
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Social media and research management; or
the potential of social networking sites for data collection; or
the potential of social technologies for sharing
Dr Richard Hall
[email protected] // @hallymk1
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What do you understand by social media?
Which technologies do you use in your research? What for? Are they social?
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• Carpenter et al. (2010). Researchers of Tomorrow: Annual Report: 2009‐2010.
• Kroll and Forsman (2010). A Slice of Research Life: Information Support for Research in the United States
• Procter et al. (2010). If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0. Research Information Network, London.
• James et al. (2009). The lives and technologies of early career researchers
• Harley et al. (2010). Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines. UC Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education.
[with thanks to @mweller]
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Headlines
Frequent or intensive use is rare
Researchers as ‘risk averse’ and ‘behind the curve in using digital technology’
Culture against using social media for soft or hard publishing
BUT almost all researchers have created a strong network of friends and colleagues
Social media supports spontaneity and serendipity
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Social as resilient practice: modular engagement; diverse networks; tied to feedback loops
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Tools and stuff: http://www.rin.ac.uk/node/1009
and there is always wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media#Examples
I like really simple overviews of tools and stuff: http://www.commoncraft.com/videos#technology
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Case 1: JJ and 2012 – testing ideas and building networks
Blogging on Posterous for critique and comment and testing ideas: http://jennifermjones.posterous.com/
Amplifying networks using Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jennifermjones
Flickr as an image bank: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenniferjones
Bookmarking/sharing via Delicious: http://www.delicious.com/caffeinebomb
Aggregation using WordPress: http://jennifermjones.net/
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Visualising data taken from the social web: http://bit.ly/mbXVZ2
Visualising data from publications: http://bit.ly/kxlhPH
Open data: http://bit.ly/gbzB3z
Case 2: data-driven research
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Critiques on public policy: http://policyex.dmu.ac.uk/
Hashtags in Twitter: managing trends: http://hashtags.org/humanrights
Communities of Practice:
Galaxy Zoo http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
RunCoCo: http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/
Case 3: collaborative research
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It’s your research.
What issues do you foresee?
Where might you start?
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Does size matter?
You are connected at a range of scales.
How will you utilise that for research management, data collection and networking?
How will you think about reliability, validity, trust and ethics?
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Ravensbourne, 2008Inclusive networks. Hall, 2009; after Ravensbourne, 2008
Via @mweller
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Via @pdp6
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