Social Media in Libraries and Teaching…or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr and their ilk.

Dr James Baker

Curator, Digital Research

@j_w_baker

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Some admin…

You are free to:– Copy, share, adapt, or re-mix– Photograph, film, or broadcast– Blog, live-blog, or post video of;

this presentation provided that:– You attribute the work to its author

and respect the rights and licences associated with its components

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Text attribution Greg Wilson, Two Solitudes, SPLASH 2013 (29 October 2013) http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/splash-2013

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License unless stated otherwise.

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“The emergence of the new digital humanities [and social sciences] isn’t an isolated academic phenomenon. The institutional and disciplinary changes are part of a larger cultural shift, inside and outside the academy, a rapid cycle of emergence and convergence in technology and culture”

Steven E Jones, Emergence of the Digital Humanities (2013)

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“Literary scholars and historians have in the past been limited in their analyses of print culture by the constraints of physical archives and

human capacity. A lone scholar cannot read, much less make sense of, millions of newspaper pages. With the aid of computational linguistics tools and digitized corpora, however, we are working toward a large-scale, systemic understanding of how texts were valued and transmitted during this period”

David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, ‘Infectious Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers’ (2013) http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dasmith/infect-bighum-2013.pdf

…or Adam Crymble

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“YOU USE TWITTER AT WORK!!!”

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Thank you!Dr James Baker

@j_w_bakerjames.baker@bl.uk