Tweeting Scholars: Introduction to EUI's Luncheon Discussion by Annika Zorn
- 1. “Scholars who make use of participatory technologies and online social networks to share, improve, validate, and further their scholarship engage in networked scholarship.” (Veletsianos 2016) 1
- 2. Moving online in Higher Education? What does that mean for core activities of scholars? • Publishing • Research • Teaching • Networking accessible, open, interactive, instantaneous Role of Higher Education for knowledge creation and sharing? 2 Why this series?
- 3. ”..how can such a brief medium have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are 3,000 to 8,000 words long, and where books contain 80,000 words? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters?” In: Mollett, Amy and Moran, Danielle and Dunleavy, Patrick (2011) Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities. Impact of Social Sciences: Maximizing the impact of academic research, LSE Public Policy Group, London School of Economics and Political Science. London, UK. 3 Twitter, seriously?
- 4. 4 What you said about Twitter in the academy: “…to contact with academicians around the globe instantly…” “…increasing publicity for scholarly work..” “…open discussions on precise topics in a public and easily way…” “…am very unfamiliar with Twitter, not having an account myself, but am intrigued as to possibilities of networking with academic and broader non- academic public “… create an active & informed public sphere…” “…collecting information about what is going on all around the world in terms of conferences, publications..” “…Researchers must find a way to communicate their results outside academia. Twitter is the hardest way, but the most immediate. Ability in using Twitter is a new skill to be developed. Finding catchy short sentences for summarizing long research stories is challenging….” “…impact of their research outcomes is today exposed in social media, and soon Impact Factor will not be the only way to measure scholar impact…” “…I tried to stay away from Twitter because I thought that academia is about the search for the truth which cannot comply with word and time limits. But maybe I am wrong. I want to learn more about…”
- 5. • Déborah Dubald – 3rd year researcher in the Department of History and Civilization • Jean-Michel Glachant – Director of Florence School of regulation (Schuman Centre) and Professor of Economics • Martin Scheinin – Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of International Law and Human Rights 5 Today’s Twitter ‘advocates’
- 6. 6 We started already to discuss and share … on #EUITweets