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February 2011

Social Media:A guide for researchers

This guide has been produced by Alan Cann of the Department of Biology at the University of Leicester,

Acknowledgements

A guide for researchers

Contents


and mainly used to

guide discusses the use of social media for research and academic purposes, rather than the many other

research, and open


used,

Blogging:

Microblogging:

Social networking:

Aggregators:

Conferencing:

Wikis:

Social bookmarking:

Social bibliography:

Social news:

Social documents:

Project management:

Photographs:

Video:

Live streaming:

Virtual worlds:

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Alun Salt (Archaeoastromomist)

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Alexander Davenport (Research Assistant, Hemato-‐oncology)

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Consuming social media

interest and engage students and has helped them become student researchers in

Terry Wassall (Principal Teaching Fellow, Sociology)

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that the encroachment of technology into every aspect of

have led to the charge that social media are trivial in nature and suitable only for entertainment rather than

research, and this leads some to argue that it is therefore

blur the

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Figure 1: The academic research cycle

by professional researchers usually behind closed doors

knowledge

knowledge

at conference

of interest can

Alun Salt (Archaeoastronomist)

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constraints

The reasons that made me start using social media are because it

Alun Salt (Archaeoastronomist)

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For some


ethical approval

Quality assurance and assessment of scholarly research: A guide for researchers, academic administrators and librarians (2010) and Peer review: A guide for researchers (2010)

Ruth Fillery-‐Travis (PhD, Archaeology)

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researcher needs to be able not only to do the research but needs to be able to communicate,


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Ruth Fillery-‐Travis (PhD, Archaeology)

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There have been a number

postby

Nature Network

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LinkedIn

tools,

your


Folksonomiesand

delicious ous features have been added to the user interface in recent years, it remains one of the simpler and

diigo

Alun Salt (Archeoastronomist)

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CiteULike

social

Zotero

store, organise and retrieve references and notes about literature you have read or

literature as


Blogginggroup

easy

Blogger

are listed

alunsalt.com

Finds and Features

archaeology

Ruth Filery-‐Travis (PhD Student, Archaeology)

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discovery and

Figure 2: Managing what you read

Filter

Ignore Read

it is not useful


combine tools

you probably need to build

Chris Jobling (Lecturer, Engineering)

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Figure 3: How networks increase in complexity


Terry Wassall (Principal Teaching Fellow, Sociology)

‘ ‘Figure 4: The structure of social networks

community engages

Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder.

The Wisdom of Crowds.


The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.

Nature

Nature

for PLoS Comput Biol,

Academy of Sciences USA.

If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0.

Journal of Clinical Oncology

The Wisdom of Crowds.


Audio and video tools

(Lecturer, Organic Chemistry)(Research Assistant, Hemato-‐oncology)

Chris Jobling (Lecturer, Engineering)(Lecturer, Ancient History)

(Archaeoastronomist)Ruth Filery Travis (PhD, Archaeology)

(Principal Teaching Fellow, Sociology)

Aggregators

Blogging

Browser

Content

Crowd sourcing

Likes


Metadata

Social documents

Social media

Social networking

Social news

Tagging

Virtual worlds

Vlog

or you can


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