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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
Aug 10 2012
I’m an academic and desperately need an online presence, where do I start?
15 CommentsSalma Patel has been on a whistle-stop tour of academic social media channels. Here she shares her simple, practical tips for academics who want to start engaging with the wider world through social media. Question: I’m an academic and desperately … Continue reading
Posted by: August 10, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, Blogging, digital era, impact, public engagement, social media, twitter
Jul 5 2012
‘Good uni: Quality nightlife’. How harvesting tweets opens up a new world of valuable qualitative data
5 CommentsThe qualitative data that is freely available on social media platforms has huge potential. Drawing on his research into what Twitter can tell us about the popularity of universities, Geraint Johnes writes that Twitter and Facebook messages could be the … Continue reading
Posted by: July 5, 2012
Tagged with: digital era, impact, public engagement, social media, twitter
May 23 2012
If you don’t have social media, you are no one: How social media enriches conferences for some but risks isolating others
9 Comments13,000 tweets, 430 photos and over 2,000 video views later, Dr Lisa Harris and Nicole Beale have plenty of data to investigate how social networking can change the conversation at an academic conference. Here, they report that while social media … Continue reading
Posted by: May 23, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, digital era, impact, Knowledge transfer, social media, twitter
May 18 2012
Who gives a tweet? After 24 hours and 860 downloads, we think quite a few actually do
5 CommentsEarlier this year, the National Centre for Research Methods released a research paper to waves of interest from academics and researchers alike on Twitter. Kaisa Puustinen and Rosalind Edwards watched the number of downloads rise rapidly as the paper was … Continue reading
Posted by: May 18, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic publishing, digital era, impact, public engagement, social media, twitter
Apr 19 2012
The verdict: is blogging or tweeting about research papers worth it?
7 CommentsEager to find out what impact blogging and social media could have on the dissemination of her work, Melissa Terras took all of her academic research, including papers that have been available online for years, to the web and found … Continue reading
Posted by: April 19, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic writing, Blogging, citations, digital era, impact, open access, public engagement, social media, twitter
Apr 13 2012
Think tanks are neglecting cheap and easy social media, and failing to reach out to broader audiences for their work
4 CommentsPlatforms such as Twitter, which offer a timely and low-cost medium to disseminate ideas are disrupting conventional approaches to public communication, but are think tanks really taking advantage of these new modes of communications? Research suggests not, write Dr Michael Harris … Continue reading
Posted by: April 13, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, digital era, government, impact, social media, Think tanks, twitter
Mar 22 2012
Who gives a tweet? Evaluating microblog content gives us an insight into what makes a valuable academic tweet
1 CommentTaking first steps in the Twitterverse can be a nerve-wrecking experience with new users unsure what thoughts to tweet to the world. Here, Paul André, Michael Bernstein and Kurt Luther attempt to fill the void and give some insights into … Continue reading
Posted by: March 22, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, digital era, public engagement, social media, twitter
Feb 29 2012
Continuous publishing has changed my experience of developing ideas and I’m more attentive to my ‘provisional outputs’ than my handwritten notes: I can’t imagine working in any other way
Comments OffReporting back after some months engaging in continuous publishing, Mark Carrigan finds himself more productive and more attentive to his provisional outputs. Publishing not only his work, but his thoughts and methods, out in the open web has also served … Continue reading
Posted by: February 29, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic publishing, Blogging, digital era, impact, public engagement, twitter
Feb 24 2012
Five minutes with Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson: “Blogging is quite simply, one of the most important things that an academic should be doing right now”.
18 CommentsAhead of the launch of EUROPP – an academic blog investigating matters of European politics and policy – next week, Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson discuss social scientists’ obligation to spread their research to the wider world and how blogging … Continue reading
Posted by: February 24, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic publishing, Blogging, digital era, impact, Knowledge transfer, public engagement, social media, twitter
