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Category Archives: Social Media
May 17 2013
Academia.edu releases embedded data-sets and code
2 CommentsImproved research sharing practices will undoubtedly help to boost the visibility of research. Richard Price, CEO of Academia.edu, explains how their social media platform is looking to incentivise data sharing by providing an outlet for researchers to share their data … Continue reading
Posted by: May 17, 2013
Tagged with: academia.edu
Mar 4 2013
Collaborating on a Conference Panel with Google Drive
4 CommentsEditing documents using centralised online cloud storage is an increasingly popular workflow adjustment, making documents more easily accessible and more transparently adaptable. There is great potential for academics and researchers to explore the variety of free services available. Kim Mann shares her … Continue reading
Posted by: March 4, 2013
Tagged with: Google Drive
Jan 31 2013
Using Google Hangouts for Higher Education blogs and workshops
2 CommentsMuch has been written about the ways that Twitter and Facebook can be used by academics and research groups as part of strategies to disseminate their work and increase their online visibility, but what else is out there? Google+ and its … Continue reading
Posted by: January 31, 2013
Tagged with: Google+
Jan 28 2013
The boundaries of academic blogging
7 CommentsAlex Marsh thinks of himself as a blogger who is an academic, rather than an “academic blogger”. He finds that though there is significant overlap, these two identities are not entirely congruent. An academic blogger may feel constrained to topics only related … Continue reading
Posted by: January 28, 2013
Tagged with: Blogging
Jan 21 2013
Dr Jekyll writes – binge writing as a pathological academic condition
3 CommentsThe practice of academic writing has a tendency to be viewed as a pathological condition – with certain behaviour, like writing for extended periods of time, listed as particularly harmful. But Pat Thomson doesn’t think this prescriptive approach gives enough credit to … Continue reading
Posted by: January 21, 2013
Tagged with: Blogging
Jan 18 2013
Using Twitter for Curated Academic Content
9 CommentsWith all the demands of academia, becoming an active curator on Twitter may sound appealing but just too onerous a task. To help ease such anxiety, Allan Johnson shares his own Twitter workflow and suggests several tools and apps, such as Pocket and Buffer, to help academics make … Continue reading
Posted by: January 18, 2013
Tagged with: twitter
Nov 17 2012
LSE Review of Books podcast series nominated for European Podcast Award
Comments OffThe LSE Review of Books podcast series has been nominated for a European Podcast Award, organised by the European Initiative Podcast Awards with the support of OLYMPUS. Cheryl Brumley, Managing Digital Editor for LSE PPG Blogs, discusses the origins of the Review’s podcast project and its potential … Continue reading
Posted by: November 17, 2012
Tagged with: audience, audio, Blogs, engagement, online, Podcasting, podcasts, social media
Nov 14 2012
Reflections on purpose
Comments OffNew media ‘big up’ academics, create noise around them and make research seem to matter; all beneficial when counting the days to the REF. However, Conor Gearty writes that the old fashioned work that created the ‘expert’ in the first place is … Continue reading
Posted by: November 14, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic work, impact
Oct 16 2012
Tweeting out loud: ethics, knowledge and social media in academe
15 CommentsTraditional and digital methods of dissemination clashed recently when a storm over live-tweeting academic conferences blew up in the US. Melonie Fullick looks at the accusation that academics can ‘use’ other people’s work to build up their online brand to benefit … Continue reading
Posted by: October 16, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, impact, social media
Oct 11 2012
Knowledge mobilisation is a social process: Social media can support individuals and organisations in research dissemination
4 CommentsAlready an active user of social media, David Phipps has recently been thinking about its potential as an academic tool. He concludes that knowledge mobilisation is continuing to evolve and that social media could grow into a powerful tool for … Continue reading
Posted by: October 11, 2012
Tagged with: digital era, impact, Knowledge transfer, social media
