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  • Keeping the conversation going in an age of scholarly abundance

  • The Cesspool of YouTube

  • The Social Challenge of Platform Proliferation

  • The Technology of Intellectual Work

  • Bloggers and their role in the dissemination of scholarly information

  • Dealing with online harassment: guidance for academics

  • Social media didn’t create the ambition to rethink scholarly communication, it gave us the tools to do it effectively

  • To understand social media for academics, we have to kill the idea of social media for academics 

  • A Domain of One’s Own

  • The Morphology of Public Engagement

  • Cartoons about the impact agenda 

  • Out trolling the trolls

  • trying to write when you’re triaging

  • Social media for academics and the increasing toxicity of the online ecology

  • Writing prompts for a PhD journal

  • Social Media For Academics: Things To Try

  • Online Harassment

  • Social media for academics and the dangers of a “content delivery” mindset

  • Quit social media

  • The Distraction of the Networked Writer

  • It looks like you’re trying to write a digital detox piece

  • The concept of ‘platform’ in publishing

  • Why are there 3 philosophy magazines but no sociology one?

  • A conversation with Peter Walsh about Zygmunt Bauman, Academic Celebrity and Social Theory

  • A conversation with Gary Hall about pirate philosophy, academic celebrity and social theory

  • When universities fail to cope with digitalisation

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

  • Some recent articles about the accelerated academy

  • Some thoughts on fast and slow science in the accelerated academy

  • Ambient intimacy and cultures of overwork

  • Open Research for Academics: A workshop and hackathon

  • Another review of Social Media For Academics

  • The difference between philosophy and talk about philosophy

  • A Guide to Instagram Marketing

  • An Open Access Series of Books on Why We Post

  • A wonderful example of how universities can use YouTube

  • What do you do when people you like act offensively online?

  • Academic video blogs: 5 tips for getting started

  • An interview with Inside Higher Ed about Social Media for Academics

  • A fantastic podcast discussion about social media for academics

  • Social media: singular or plural?

  • Things I’d like to include in a potential second edition of Social Media for Academics

  • Social Media and Academic Labour

  • Social media for academics and the risk of becoming ‘TED heads’

  • Social Media and Academic Labour

  • Sociology Social Media Assistant CfA

  • Ideas for action from Teela Sanders and @RuthPatrick0

  • Making the Most of Social Media

  • What are the risks of social media for academics?

  • What scholarly activities have you engaged in over the last week?

  • Vintage social media

  • The growth of the Twinterns

  • Using @IFTTT and Twitter to curate material for research projects

  • Omnifocus for Academics

  • WordPress owns the Internet

  • Why We Post: The Anthropology of Social Media

  • The Thesis Whisperer: Starting an Academic Blog

  • Social Media and Academic Labour, June 27th in Leeds

  • 19 interesting ways to communicate knowledge

  • “They were stalking the corridors, the lecture rooms, the offices…”: open research, ethics and impact

  • Open research projects

  • The size of social networks and the size of nation states

  • What happens in an internet minute?

  • Call for Papers: Communities of Practice: Toward a Local and Global Digital Humanities

  • Using social media to map scholarly literatures

  • A podcast about Social Media for Academics

  • 40 reasons why you should blog about your research

  • The creepiness of ‘networking’ discourse and the WikiHow-ification of academic career advice

  • Understanding the Features of Different Social Media Platforms

  • Creating an ‘idea index’

  • Sustaining your focus throughout the working day

  • The value of university managed online spaces

  • How to use social media for academic purposes

  • How will social media transform #highered?

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

  • Crafting an online identity

  • So what is ‘networking’?

  • Why should academics blog about their research? An answer in pictures

  • Academic Social Media in the Research Economy

  • The new cheapest place to order Social Media for Academics online

  • Would you like to recommend Social Media for Academics to your library?

  • What people who ordered Social Media for Academics also bought

  • CfP: 2016 Learning with MOOCs Conference, October 6-7, 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Using Social Media to Manage Information

  • The Aristocracy of the Digital Celebrities and the Magical Thinking That Props It Up

  • How to ‘network’ without chipping away at your soul

  • Tweets about Social Media for Academics

  • Slack and Basecamp for Academics

  • Social Media for Journal Editors

  • The Challenge of Public Engagement Projects and the Role of New Intermediaries Like @Soc_Imagination and @TheSocReview

  • There are many ways to keep a digital research journal other than blogging

  • What are ‘working papers’ for when we have social media?

  • The Pleasures of Scholarly Blogging

  • Notes on the Uberisation of Doctoral Education

  • Using social media to ‘inhabit the attentiveness of another writer’

  • George Veletsianos on Networked Scholars

  • The Promise of the Pivot Format

  • moderating social media and the challenge of normativity

  • Social Media in the Accelerated Academy, March 2nd @CIMethods @SocioWarwick

  • Are social media algorithms killing online activism?

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