Social Media for Researchers Potential purposes of using social media in academic research: Promoting your activity Learning Networking with likeminded people Forming collaborative partnerships Public engagement Creating impact Building your reputation (personal, group, institutional or all) Social research Coordinating international research activity Job hunting

1) Social Media for Research - Aiding and Disseminating Research

Funding opportunities/aggregators

Recruiting research participants

Crowdsourcing

Collaboration and co-production

Promotion of outputs (including research impact)

Ethics

Risks (ensuring responsibility, rigor and respect; intellectually/commercially-sensitive research)

2) Social Media for Researchers - Networking and Identity

Career development - profile raising

Peer support with research environment challenges (isolation, fixed-term contracts, #ECRchat/#PhDchat)

Risks (managing your online identity, avoiding faux-pas) 3) Tools Available to Boost Academic Profile - Practical Sessions

Academic blogging (full/Wordpress and micro/Twitter)

Researcher profile sites (Academia.edu, Google Scholar, Linked-In)

Impact matrixes (Altmetrics)

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1) Social Media for Research - Aiding and Disseminating Research

Funding opportunities/aggregators

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Recruiting research participants

www.callforparticipants.com

Qualitative data on a quantitative scale

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Crowdsourcing

Collaboration and co-production

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Promotion of outputs (including research impact)

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Ethics

Risks (ensuring responsibility, rigor and respect; intellectually/commercially-sensitive research)

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The Posse: Unpredictable, en-mass criticism (geeks, not cyber bullies) ….Particularly around methodology ….General raising of standards Transparency about 'half-cooked ideas'

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2) Social Media for Researchers - Networking and Identity

Network Theory

o You don’t need to know everyone. o Knowing who the connectors are is important o Be aware of what networks you are in and what ones you are not in o Being part of a network takes time and energy – you can’t be part of everything.

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Career development - profile raising

An audience = influence = power

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Peer support with research environment challenges (isolation, fixed-term contracts, #ECRchat/#PhDchat)

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Risks (managing your online identity, avoiding faux-pas)

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3) Tools Available to Boost Academic Profile

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Academic blogging (full/Wordpress and micro/Twitter)

= Intellectual reflections

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Researcher profile sites (Academia.edu, Google Scholar, Linked-In)

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Impact matrixes (Altmetrics)

Sharing measuring and finding of papers, data sets, policy documents, reports, posters and proceedings Misc. Reflections

Not a technical challenge, but a conceptual one

Rules - do not do anything embarrassing - nothing you wouldn't want your boss or grandmother to read

From consuming culture produced by others (with quality control) - to each of us with a printing press and no regulation by the professionals

Content filtered at the point of consumption, rather than production

Removing yourself doesn't give you control

Need to show mutual interest to engage communities

Your social media experience is only as good as the people you follow - some diversity

You need to upskill for public engagement, rather than dumbing down. But aim for 14 year olds (like broadsheets do)

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Social Media for Researchers - Resource List Sector Guides Social Media: A guide for researchers http://shardprogramme.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/social-media-a-guide-for-researchers.pdf Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities http://shardprogramme.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/twitter-guide.pdf Handbook of social media for researchers and supervisors https://www.vitae.ac.uk/vitae-publications/reports/innovate-open-university-social-media-handbook-vitae-2012.pdf SHU Guides (https://students.shu.ac.uk/shuspacecontent/support_for_learning/social-media) How to use social media responsibly https://students.shu.ac.uk/lits/it/documents/pdf/How%20to%20use%20social%20media%20responsibly.pdf Managing your digital footprint https://students.shu.ac.uk/lits/it/documents/pdf/Digital_Footprint.pdf Using social media for learning https://students.shu.ac.uk/lits/it/documents/pdf/Social%20media%20for%20learning.pdf