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January 4th, 2014

Creating, curating and circulating research: our top five posts on Social Media

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

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January 4th, 2014

Creating, curating and circulating research: our top five posts on Social Media

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Social media has proven itself to be a useful tool for the wider dissemination of research. Our list of the top five posts from the past year includes an A-Z guide of using social media in academia and also critically explores the politics around what gets shared and by whom.

jessieFrom Tweet to Blog Post to Peer-Reviewed Article: How to be a Scholar Now

Digital media is changing how scholars interact, collaborate, write and publish. Here, Jessie Daniels describes how to be a scholar now, when peer-reviewed articles can begin as Tweets and blog posts. In this new environment, scholars are able to create knowledge in ways that are more open, more fluid, and more easily read by wider audiences.

Andy-MiahTop 5 social media platforms for research development

Social media outlets are becoming essential for academia, not just for the promotion of research but for research development as well. Andy Miah provides an overview of his top picks for the social media newbie and argues that if used well, these platforms will allow academics to digest more content, more quickly. We must figure out how to use social media in a way that enriches academic working life, but in a way that also provides some added value.

Using Twitter for Curated Academic Content

 With 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 Bufferto help academics make the most of their valuable time in contributing and curating content.

beerSocial media’s politics of circulation have profound implications for how academic knowledge is discovered and produced.

As social media and other new forms of media emerge as influential ways to communicate academic knowledge, David Beer argues academics may need to pay more attention to the politics of circulation that increasingly define how academic knowledge is discovered and transmitted. If we don’t understand the politics of data circulations that define contemporary media cultures then we may also find that academic practice is reshaped without sufficient reflection and reaction.

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Social media presents a growing body of evidence that can inform social and economic policy

Social media offers exciting data resources for researchers. But if this body of complex data and its subsequent analysis are going to positively impact public policy and services, governments may have to take a leading role in managing access and determining boundaries.  Jason Leavey presents the findings of a new report investigating how feasible and useful evidence from social media could be at shaping public policy. 

 

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