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The Digital Academic: Social and Other Digital Media for Academics

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Deborah Lupton
Deborah Lupton

A presentation used in workshops to teach academics about how to use social media and other digital media for professional purposes. Includes discussion of Academia.edu, LinkedIn, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, institutional e-repositories, Storify, SlideShare, Pinterest and more.

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THE DIGITAL ACADEMIC: SOCIALAND OTHER DIGITALMEDIAFOR ACADEMICS Deborah Lupton Department of Sociology and Social Policy University of Sydney
Why use social media? • Connect with other academics • Engage with the public – get out from behind paywalls • Share your research • Increase citations to your work • Access others’ research • Respond to current events • Curate online material • Conduct research • Use for teaching • Create and manage your on-line presence
Academia.edu • Create your academic profile • Follow other academics or interest groups (and they can follow you) • Upload papers or links to published work • Informs you when you are Googled
LinkedIn • Professional work contacts • Provide details of your current and previous employment • Share news about your research • Join interest groups
Google Scholar • Creates a personal profile that lists your total publications and citations, both for each year and career total • Creates an h-index and an i10-index • Lists each publication in order (by year or number of citations) with citations for each one shown
Blogs • Write about your or others’ research • Write about current events • Have full control over your content • Receive and respond to comments • Publish instantaneously • Egs: WordPress, Tumblr • My blog: This Sociological Life
Wikipedia • Create your own entries or edit others’ entries
Twitter • Make connections • Post links • ‘Curate your own academic department’ • Chat with other tweeters in real time • Live tweeting from conferences • Follow interesting people • My Twitter handle: @DALupton
Pinterest • Curate images • Use for research • Use for teaching • Publicise your own research My Pinterest boards: http://pinterest.com/dalupton/boards
Storify • Collect material from the web: tweets, websites, images, blog posts • Make a ‘story’ using this material in a narrative format My Storifies: http://storify.com/DALupton#stories
Facebook • Create your own pages around topics of interest • Post interesting news items, blog posts and journal abstracts • Make comments • One of my Facebook pages: Digital Sociology
Podcasts or YouTube videos • Present videos of research content for public access • Upload interviews with other researchers or yourself talking about your research • Use visual material related to your research or teaching
Content curation and book marking tools • Use to find, save and collect interesting material from the web • Can be arranged around topics and shared with others • Eg: Delicious, Bundlr, Scoop.it, Pearltrees, StumbleUpon • One of my Scoop.it collections: The Digital Self
Quora • Use to ask questions or answer others’ questions
SlideShare • Use to upload and share your Powerpoint or Prezi presentations on the web
Content aggregator tools • Use to organise and save the latest material from your favourite websites and blogs • Streams in content automatically • A way to find content easily that is in your interest area • Eg. Prismatic, RSS feeds, Paper.li
Referencing tools • Collect your references and PDFs under topics • Create private groups to share PDFs among each other • You can make your topic reference collections available to be accessed by others (reference details or open access material only, not PDFs because of copyright restrictions) • Can be used for automatic reference formatting of your documents • Eg: Mendeley, Zotero, CiteULike
University e-repositories • Upload copies of your articles (post-print or pre- print), conference/seminar presentations or working papers • A great way to digitally publish material that otherwise would not be available on the web (eg a conference paper or working paper) or has not yet been published in a journal (post-print or pre-print) • These can then be accessed on the web and downloaded and are searchable and citable by Google Scholar etc • Check copyright issues first
How to maximise your digital research profile Publish a book/journal article/chapter/working paper/conference paper Publicise on Twitter, Facebook, Academia.edu, LinkedIn , Research Gate etc. – make sure you provide a hyperlink Write a blog about the piece and embed the hyperlink Publicise the blog on Twitter, Facebook, Academia.edu, LinkedIn etc.
Issues to be aware of • Maintaining a professional persona • Decide how much personal detail you want to include • Never say on social media what you would not say face-to-face • Ensure you don’t breach copyright agreements with journal and book publishers
Useful links • The A to Z of social media for academia • LSE Impact of the Social Sciences website • ‘Social media for academia: some things I have learnt’ (one of my blog posts)

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The Digital Academic: Social and Other Digital Media for Academics

  • 1. THE DIGITAL ACADEMIC: SOCIALAND OTHER DIGITALMEDIAFOR ACADEMICS Deborah Lupton Department of Sociology and Social Policy University of Sydney
  • 2. Why use social media? • Connect with other academics • Engage with the public – get out from behind paywalls • Share your research • Increase citations to your work • Access others’ research • Respond to current events • Curate online material • Conduct research • Use for teaching • Create and manage your on-line presence
  • 3. Academia.edu • Create your academic profile • Follow other academics or interest groups (and they can follow you) • Upload papers or links to published work • Informs you when you are Googled
  • 4. LinkedIn • Professional work contacts • Provide details of your current and previous employment • Share news about your research • Join interest groups
  • 5. Google Scholar • Creates a personal profile that lists your total publications and citations, both for each year and career total • Creates an h-index and an i10-index • Lists each publication in order (by year or number of citations) with citations for each one shown
  • 6. Blogs • Write about your or others’ research • Write about current events • Have full control over your content • Receive and respond to comments • Publish instantaneously • Egs: WordPress, Tumblr • My blog: This Sociological Life
  • 7. Wikipedia • Create your own entries or edit others’ entries
  • 8. Twitter • Make connections • Post links • ‘Curate your own academic department’ • Chat with other tweeters in real time • Live tweeting from conferences • Follow interesting people • My Twitter handle: @DALupton
  • 9. Pinterest • Curate images • Use for research • Use for teaching • Publicise your own research My Pinterest boards: http://pinterest.com/dalupton/boards
  • 10. Storify • Collect material from the web: tweets, websites, images, blog posts • Make a ‘story’ using this material in a narrative format My Storifies: http://storify.com/DALupton#stories
  • 11. Facebook • Create your own pages around topics of interest • Post interesting news items, blog posts and journal abstracts • Make comments • One of my Facebook pages: Digital Sociology
  • 12. Podcasts or YouTube videos • Present videos of research content for public access • Upload interviews with other researchers or yourself talking about your research • Use visual material related to your research or teaching
  • 13. Content curation and book marking tools • Use to find, save and collect interesting material from the web • Can be arranged around topics and shared with others • Eg: Delicious, Bundlr, Scoop.it, Pearltrees, StumbleUpon • One of my Scoop.it collections: The Digital Self
  • 14. Quora • Use to ask questions or answer others’ questions
  • 15. SlideShare • Use to upload and share your Powerpoint or Prezi presentations on the web
  • 16. Content aggregator tools • Use to organise and save the latest material from your favourite websites and blogs • Streams in content automatically • A way to find content easily that is in your interest area • Eg. Prismatic, RSS feeds, Paper.li
  • 17. Referencing tools • Collect your references and PDFs under topics • Create private groups to share PDFs among each other • You can make your topic reference collections available to be accessed by others (reference details or open access material only, not PDFs because of copyright restrictions) • Can be used for automatic reference formatting of your documents • Eg: Mendeley, Zotero, CiteULike
  • 18. University e-repositories • Upload copies of your articles (post-print or pre- print), conference/seminar presentations or working papers • A great way to digitally publish material that otherwise would not be available on the web (eg a conference paper or working paper) or has not yet been published in a journal (post-print or pre-print) • These can then be accessed on the web and downloaded and are searchable and citable by Google Scholar etc • Check copyright issues first
  • 19. How to maximise your digital research profile Publish a book/journal article/chapter/working paper/conference paper Publicise on Twitter, Facebook, Academia.edu, LinkedIn , Research Gate etc. – make sure you provide a hyperlink Write a blog about the piece and embed the hyperlink Publicise the blog on Twitter, Facebook, Academia.edu, LinkedIn etc.
  • 20. Issues to be aware of • Maintaining a professional persona • Decide how much personal detail you want to include • Never say on social media what you would not say face-to-face • Ensure you don’t breach copyright agreements with journal and book publishers
  • 21. Useful links • The A to Z of social media for academia • LSE Impact of the Social Sciences website • ‘Social media for academia: some things I have learnt’ (one of my blog posts)