The document advocates for wise use of social tools to further research goals like finding collaboration, monitoring fields, and challenging echo chambers.

1. Social media for
Mathias Klang
researchers @klang67

2. University: Still going strong after a
millennium If it ain’t broke then don’t fix it.

3. Information is scarce
Information is power
Organization is key
Metaphor: Encyclopedia

4. Technological change drives change

5. Generation zero

6. hollerith

8. The organization of knowledge

9. memex
Vannevar Bush; As We May Think; Atlantic Monthly; July 1945

11. The digital is the original
& everything is copy

12. Everything is miscellaneous

13. What do we do with our technology?

14. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

15. Infinite information
Cocktail party metaphor? Information is not power
Organization is key

16. Privacy
Banality
Critique Peripherality
Information overload
Everyone’s an expert
Work/life balance

17. “My fear is that these
technologies are
infantilising the brain into
the state of small children
who are attracted by
buzzing noises and bright
lights, who have a small
attention span and who
live for the moment.”
Prof. Susan Greenfield

18. Know your world

19. Be known in your world

20. Production

21. "Scientists are people of very
dissimilar temperaments
doing different things in very
different ways. Among
scientists are collectors,
classifiers and compulsive
tidiers-up; many are
detectives by temperament
and many are explorers; some
are artists and others artisans.
There are poet-scientists and
philosopher-scientists and
even a few mystics.”
Peter Medawar

22. Loyalty: Advertising the university & its research
Moral obligation: Citizen dialogue
Pick your tools Law: “Tredje uppgiften”/outreach

23. Blogs: the backbone of social media

24. Blogging as training

25. Not everyone will love me…
Kick in the teeth

26. Blogging as territorial
marking

27. Blogging as satisfaction
(not always good)

28. Multiplication can produce big
numbers

29. Swedish heritage board

30. 3.5 years later

31. Egostroke
Egostroke

32. Crossing
Boundaries

35. Time heavy, or is it? (RoI)

36. Communicate about what you
know

37. Sharing
(bibliometric impact?)
SelectedWorks
Academia.edu
SSRN
Scribd
(LinkedIN)

38. Wise use of social tools

39. Finding & supporting collaboration

40. Monitoring.
Research, research
interpretation &
conferences.

41. Brainstorming. Short term collaboration?

42. The unrewarded
academic blogger

43. Twitter: “who told me”

44. Facebook?

45. Communications stress

46. Anti-Echo chambers?

47. Always online

49. THANKS!

50. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
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