Using Social Media for Research

Using Web 2.0 for research: building an online academic identity Dr Lorraine Warren, Southampton Research workshop, Aberdeen Business School, RGU, July 2009 [acknowledgements to Lisa Harris, Southampton; Kelly Smith, Huddersfield; Charlotte Carey, BCU; Jas Dhaliwal, Microsoft]

Web 2.0
Social media
Blogs, wikis, twitter, facebook, flickr, slideshare, youtube, ning
Sites such as Digg, Delicious
Music sites such as blip.fm, spotify
How to set in academic context

Is it...?

Overview: Building an academic identity
Rapidly build high value networks
Build up a community of interest around your work
Quickly identify and share breaking news, new resources, current issues
Benefit from new forms of publishing
AT NO COST
Making your work work for you NOW

For a researcher...
Highlighting material useful to colleagues
Seeking collaborators
Sourcing co-authors
Networking with colleagues prior to conferences
Feeds from colleagues at conferences that I cannot attend
Research discussions
Meeting new contacts
Follow calls for funds (JISC)
Ask questions to quickly gauge opinion (crowdsourcing)
Follow sources such as Times Higher in real time, key journalists in my area [eg Jack Schofield/Guardian]
Post links to Digg and Delicious sites
Put out calls for papers outwith your sphere of influence

What is your style?
Passives
Use what is there, use email, access information, maybe register accounts on FB, watch youtube, maybe use in presentations, text on mobile, largely individualised activity
Creators
Use and create what is there, create video, sound, upload, keep a blog, update, use FB for social events, use smart phone, access, join and participate in existing networks
Disruptor
Create new networks , develop activities based on real-time events and breaking news , main space of professional identity is online , rigorously maintained, download apps onto smartphone and extend

For me...
It’s where my future contacts and networks lie, and increasingly where I’ll be influencing thinking [velocity]
Also managing interface between work and play

Some examples
http://www.liberatemedia.com/blog/tim-greenhalgh/
http://www.lisaharrismarketing.com/
Next: Twitter demo
www.twitter.com [www.itweet.net]

Follow up
doclorraine
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/07/web2practice.aspx

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