The Digital Academic: Social and Other Digital Media for Academics
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The document outlines the various social media platforms and tools that academics can utilize to enhance their research visibility and engagement, such as LinkedIn, Google Scholar, and Twitter. It emphasizes the benefits of sharing research, connecting with peers, and creating a professional online presence while also addressing issues like maintaining professionalism and copyright concerns. Additionally, it offers practical strategies for maximizing digital research profiles and includes useful resources for further exploration.
The Digital Academic: Social and Other Digital Media for Academics
- 1. THE DIGITAL ACADEMIC: SOCIALAND OTHER DIGITALMEDIAFOR ACADEMICS Deborah Lupton Department of Sociology and Social Policy University of Sydney
- 2. Why use social media? • Connect with other academics • Engage with the public – get out from behind paywalls • Share your research • Increase citations to your work • Access others’ research • Respond to current events • Curate online material • Conduct research • Use for teaching • Create and manage your on-line presence
- 3. Academia.edu • Create your academic profile • Follow other academics or interest groups (and they can follow you) • Upload papers or links to published work • Informs you when you are Googled
- 4. LinkedIn • Professional work contacts • Provide details of your current and previous employment • Share news about your research • Join interest groups
- 5. Google Scholar • Creates a personal profile that lists your total publications and citations, both for each year and career total • Creates an h-index and an i10-index • Lists each publication in order (by year or number of citations) with citations for each one shown
- 6. Blogs • Write about your or others’ research • Write about current events • Have full control over your content • Receive and respond to comments • Publish instantaneously • Egs: WordPress, Tumblr • My blog: This Sociological Life
- 7. Wikipedia • Create your own entries or edit others’ entries
- 8. Twitter • Make connections • Post links • ‘Curate your own academic department’ • Chat with other tweeters in real time • Live tweeting from conferences • Follow interesting people • My Twitter handle: @DALupton
- 9. Pinterest • Curate images • Use for research • Use for teaching • Publicise your own research My Pinterest boards: http://pinterest.com/dalupton/boards
- 10. Storify • Collect material from the web: tweets, websites, images, blog posts • Make a ‘story’ using this material in a narrative format My Storifies: http://storify.com/DALupton#stories
- 11. Facebook • Create your own pages around topics of interest • Post interesting news items, blog posts and journal abstracts • Make comments • One of my Facebook pages: Digital Sociology
- 12. Podcasts or YouTube videos • Present videos of research content for public access • Upload interviews with other researchers or yourself talking about your research • Use visual material related to your research or teaching
- 13. Content curation and book marking tools • Use to find, save and collect interesting material from the web • Can be arranged around topics and shared with others • Eg: Delicious, Bundlr, Scoop.it, Pearltrees, StumbleUpon • One of my Scoop.it collections: The Digital Self
- 14. Quora • Use to ask questions or answer others’ questions
- 15. SlideShare • Use to upload and share your Powerpoint or Prezi presentations on the web
- 16. Content aggregator tools • Use to organise and save the latest material from your favourite websites and blogs • Streams in content automatically • A way to find content easily that is in your interest area • Eg. Prismatic, RSS feeds, Paper.li
- 17. Referencing tools • Collect your references and PDFs under topics • Create private groups to share PDFs among each other • You can make your topic reference collections available to be accessed by others (reference details or open access material only, not PDFs because of copyright restrictions) • Can be used for automatic reference formatting of your documents • Eg: Mendeley, Zotero, CiteULike
- 18. University e-repositories • Upload copies of your articles (post-print or pre- print), conference/seminar presentations or working papers • A great way to digitally publish material that otherwise would not be available on the web (eg a conference paper or working paper) or has not yet been published in a journal (post-print or pre-print) • These can then be accessed on the web and downloaded and are searchable and citable by Google Scholar etc • Check copyright issues first
- 19. How to maximise your digital research profile Publish a book/journal article/chapter/working paper/conference paper Publicise on Twitter, Facebook, Academia.edu, LinkedIn , Research Gate etc. – make sure you provide a hyperlink Write a blog about the piece and embed the hyperlink Publicise the blog on Twitter, Facebook, Academia.edu, LinkedIn etc.
- 20. Issues to be aware of • Maintaining a professional persona • Decide how much personal detail you want to include • Never say on social media what you would not say face-to-face • Ensure you don’t breach copyright agreements with journal and book publishers
- 21. Useful links • The A to Z of social media for academia • LSE Impact of the Social Sciences website • ‘Social media for academia: some things I have learnt’ (one of my blog posts)