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  • An interview with Research Professional about the fragmented landscape of digital engagement

  • The radicalisation of urban exploration YouTubers

  • Unconscious incompetence with technology

  • Why I don’t like recording events

  • 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

  • New paper – ‘Views expressed here are my own and not those of the university’: social media policies in UK higher education institutions

  • The visibility of academics will be shaped through LLMs as much as social media in future

  • Astonishingly Meta are actually federating Threads

  • Academic networks need to prepare for waves of enshittification

  • I’ve been using WordPress for 17 years

  • The privilege of escaping from the Twittering Machine

  • Special issue: Social Media in Higher Education – What’s Happening?

  • Podcast: from social media to generative AI in higher education

  • How else could your time on social media be used?

  • Interview with Research Professional about the future of academic Twitter

  • Why I don’t trust research comms agencies who contact individual academics

  • How the concept of platform shaped my research

  • Could Bluesky be the replacement for Academic Twitter? 

  • The evolution of the prompt in Twitter’s compose tweet bios

  • Some thoughts on Bluesky

  • Void left by decline of academic Twitter ‘will be hard to fill’

  • Conversational AI as a tool for thinking-with rather than a technique for replacing our labour

  • Social media is EVERYWHERE in the REF 2021 case studies. Initial findings from our study, analysed with Claude AI

  • Saying goodbye to Twitter

  • The death of participatory media

  • The missing skill of technological reflexivity

  • Are we seeing a turn back towards the Open Web?

  • Why social media matters for academics

  • Social Media for Academics 2

  • The public role of academics in a social media era

  • Escaping the Impact Machine: a sociological boardgame #TSRBoardGame

  • Social media as a living CV for academics

  • I’ve finally finished the second edition of Social Media for Academics

  • 😪 How not to prepare the second edition of a book ðŸ˜ª

  • The disappointing reality of using social media for public engagement

  • An introduction to social media for academics

  • A quick guide to managing organisational social media accounts

  • Persistance, Searchability and Incivility

  • The cultural significance of blogging

  • What are ‘recognition triggers’ in scholarly publishing?

  • The Impact Agenda as Paradigm Shift

  • Social Media and Public Sociology

  • Social Media and Open Research: What Does ‘Open’ Mean?

  • The Joys of Weak Ties

  • We should be very careful about how we construct ‘the public’ in discourses of public engagement

  • Why do you find social media useful as an academic?

  • Crafting an online identity

  • So what is ‘networking’?

  • Tweets about Social Media for Academics

  • Social Media for Journal Editors

  • George Veletsianos on Networked Scholars

  • moderating social media and the challenge of normativity

  • social media and the noise it injects into daily life 

  • my tips on social media for academics in the times higher

  • social media for academics: available for pre-order!

  • social media and the promise of never again being alone 

  • reflections on preparing to finish a book

  • social media and academic freedom

  • how to evaluate your web page for accessibility

  • what would a curricula for Networked Scholarship look like?

  • the creepy treehouse problem

  • Stewart Lee on Twitter

  • How to turn a wallet full of cards into a book

  • Some thoughts on sociological writing

  • The regulation of academic social media use

  • Blogging as a “commonplace book”

  • The six challenges social media poses for social researchers

  • Academics using kickstarter

  • Social Media for Academics

  • Howard Becker, Blogging and Phenomenology

  • The Politics of Circulation, Human Agency and Building Your Own Information Environment

  • What is ‘academic blogging’?

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