This document provides information on managing your online presence and social media as an academic. It discusses social media platforms like Twitter and using hashtags for conferences. It also covers representing yourself online through platforms like ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and LinkedIn. Additionally, it addresses maintaining your digital identity, privacy settings, and author's rights when posting work online. The document aims to help academics create and manage their professional online profiles and digital identities.

1. RAFIA MIRZA
@LIBRARIANRAFIA
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
LIBRARIAN
RAFIA@UTA.EDU
Social Media & Online Presence
BRETT D. CURRIER
@BRETTDCURRIER
DIRECTOR OF SCHOLARLY
COMMUNICATIONS
BRETT.CURRIER@UTA.EDU

2. Social Media & Online Presence
• Social Media Explained
• Manage your digital identity
• Represent yourself online
• Maintaining your rights
Note: Some images included under Fair Use, all original content licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

3. SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLAINED

4. Image: Social Media Explained by www.theAdaptiveMarketer.com , Gerardo A. Dada

5. Articles:
• Getting started with Twitter
• 10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics
• Navigating the ‘Twitterverse’: Creating an Alternate Academic Persona via Social Media
• ProfHacker: Tag Archives: Twitter
Conferences and #:
• Virtual MLA
• Conference Season Is Here. Don’t Stink at Twitter.
Discussions:
• Defining terms: #altac
• Introducing #critlib chats!

6. Alt-Metrics
• Notable Publications from Smithsonian Staff in 2014
• Altmetrics: the cat’s meow?
• Alternative Methods of Research Evaluation
Image: Altmetrics: Using Big Data to Measure Scholarly Impact by Elaine Lasda Bergman

7. MANAGE YOUR DIGITAL IDENTITY

8. “These are episodes in
which distinct social
worlds collide online,
causing outpourings of
drama.”
The Internet of Words
by Ted Striphas
Context Collapse
Image: Context Collapse via Glenn Zucman
how “context collapse” was coined: my
[danah boyd] recollection

9. Privacy Settings
• How to Delete Yourself from the Internet
• How to Manage Your Social Media Privacy Settings
Image: Here’s How to Use Facebook’s
Mystifying Privacy Settings by Josh
Valcarcel/WIRED

10. Disambiguation

11. REPRESENT YOURSELF ONLINE

12. There are a variety of platforms:
“ResearchGate to locate peers
(often in the sciences),
Academia.edu to post work (often
in the humanities and social
sciences) and LinkedIn to search for
jobs (in alt-ac fields).”
Platforms
Image: Online Communities, by Randall Munroe (xkcd) is lilicensed under CC-BY-NC.
Institutional Repositories:
• RESEARCH COMMONS
Other Discipline or Topic related
Repositories:
• figshare
• Mendeley
• MyScienceWork
• SSRN
• HAL
• arXiv
• viXra
• Quartzy
• PLOS ONE
• GITHUB

13. Digital Humanities on GitHub

14. Digital Humanities on Academia.edu

15. Resume
Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics

16. Trend to Include Links to Repositories
on CVs and Faculty Profiles

17. MAINTAINING YOUR RIGHTS

18. Poster Presentation:
Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan’s Research Commons Profile

19. Copyright & Author’s Rights
“The Author" by streetwrk.com is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

20. Thesis and Dissertation Information
Dissertation

21. QUESTIONS?
Rafia Mirza
@librarianrafia
Digital Humanities Librarian
rafia@uta.edu
Brett D. Currier
@brettdcurrier
Director of Scholarly Communications
brett.currier@uta.edu