Social Media For Academics: Things To Try
Social Media For Academics: Things To Try
Open Research for Academics: A workshop and hackathon
October 29th, Goldsmiths, University of London Open research is much more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties. It involves innovative approaches to communicating results and sharing outputs. It is about accessibility, inclusivity, citizen science, public engagement, radical transparency, […]
Another review of Social Media For Academics
Another really generous review of Social Media for Academics. I particularly liked this bit: So, there is a whole bunch of good ideas here, and I’ve tended to read this as an ideas prompt, suggesting things I’d not really thought of and while sensibly not telling how I might do those […]
A fantastic podcast discussion about social media for academics
This is one of the best discussions about social media for academics I’ve heard: Episode 58 of This Week In Health Law. Fresh from ASLME’s Health Law Professors’ Conference in Boston: a special TWIHL! Pharmalot’s Ed Silverman joins a cavalcade of past show guests (Rachel Sachs, Ross Silverman, and Nicholas Bagley) […]
Making the Most of Social Media
Notes for my talk at the ESRC North West DTC tomorrow Social media has changed a lot since I began my PhD. But what’s notable about this is that I didn’t start my PhD particularly long ago. When I began in 2008, my blogging was a personal hobby which I […]
What are the risks of social media for academics?
These are the risks I discussed with participants in a workshop I ran in York last week:
What scholarly activities have you engaged in over the last week?
This is the question I asked participants in a workshop I ran in York last week. By looking at specific activities that academics perform in their working life, it becomes easier to unpack the possibilities of social media for academics and see how it can be used effectively:
Social Media in the Accelerated Academy, March 2nd @CIMethods @SocioWarwick
Are social media algorithms killing online activism?
Via John Brissenden
Social Media Data for Social Research
An important project undertaken by Susan Halford, Farida Vis and David De Roure that will shape ESRC support for social media research. Take the survey here. Social media are a valuable source of information for researchers across the social sciences, offering diverse data at scale, in real time and over […]
social media in the accelerated academy: march 2nd @CIMethods
Visiting Scholar Program – Ryerson University Social Media Lab
This looks good. I’ll be tempted to apply for the scheme next year if it runs on the same basis. The lab is run by one of the Big Data & Society editors: The Social Media Lab, part of the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada) […]
manufacturing certainties in response to systemic uncertainties
From Addiction By Design, by Natasha Dow Schüll, pg 12: A zone in which time, space, and social identity are suspended in the mechanical rhythm of a repeating process may seem an unpromising object for cultural analysis. Yet such a zone, I argue, can offer a window onto the kinds […]
cfp: social media: connected cultures (via @hl_robertson)
Social Media: Connected Cultures Call for Participation 2016 The Social Media Project: 1st Global Conference Sunday 8th May – Tuesday 10th May 2016 Prague, Czech Republic This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project seeks to start a dialogue about the global impact, development, role and functions of social media in the life […]
digital capitalism and the acceleration of bullshit
This is a slightly crude attempt to thematise something which I’ve been struggling to express for a while: has there been an acceleration of the rate at which bullshit emerges in the digital economy? Here’s an example of what I have in mind. I’ve been looking through Amazon for business […]
mark zuckerberg: domination or revolution!
From The Boy Kings, by Katherine Losse, pg 13: I liked to listen to Mark’s discussion of the product philosophy and goals at these meetings, which were to me the most fascinating part of the job: what were we trying to do, with this fledgling Internet identity registration system? “I […]
please tell early career scholars: the isrf social media essay competition
The Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) and Big Data & Society (BD&S) intend to award a prize of CHF 1,000 for the best essay on the topic ‘Influence and Power’. This is a topic, not a title. Accordingly, authors are free to choose an essay title within this field. The […]
another special issue: social media and protest identity
As if my reading list for the new project hadn’t grown enough over recent weeks, I just stumbled across this fascinating looking special issue of I,C,S co-edited by Paolo Gerbaudo: SOCIAL MEDIA AND PROTEST IDENTITIES Special Issue of Information, Communication & Society – Volume 18, Issue 8, 2015 http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/18/8#.Ve3KmHvSiKx edited by […]
another must read special issue: social media & society
The second special issue I’ve found, in less than 24 hours, which I feel I must read in its entirety. I’m feeling a bit overloaded: http://sms.sagepub.com/content/current
the circular tendency in digital capitalism
From this fascinating Jacobin piece. This observation is key to what I’m planning on focusing on over the next few years: One of the features of recent digital capitalism is the tendency for firms to build companies that appear to skirt around the spirit, and perhaps the letter, of the […]
