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

“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?

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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

“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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