Social Media for Music Researchers

Dr Helen Webster, Digital Humanities Network

CRASSH

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Modelling Digital Behaviour…

These slides are on Slideshare, and the links embedded in it are live:

http://www.slideshare.net/drhelenwebster

Feel free to livetweet!#DH23

#RONetwork

Thursday, 21 February 2013

AimsNot to teach tools, or to ‘sell’ social media

but...

• an awareness of the ways in which social and digital media platforms can enhance and be embedded in your work as a researcher

• an understanding of the issues raised by social and digital media tools, potential pitfalls, good practice and future impacts on the profession

• an awareness of and ability to evaluate the various types of digital tool and make informed decisions about your own engagement with them in your practice

Thursday, 21 February 2013

What are Social Media?

•Digital

•Networked

•Open (Weller, 2012)

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Scale of digital engagement

TechnoFEAR! TechnoJOY!

(Izzard, 1997)

Thursday, 21 February 2013

What do you already use?

• Social Networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Academia.edu)

• Blogging (Wordpress, Blogger)

• Microblogging Twitter

• Content sharing (Flickr, Youtube, Vimeo, Slideshare, Scribd, Audioboo, Soundcloud)

• Cloud email (Yahoo, Gmail)

• Social Bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo)

• Content Curation (Scoop.it, Storify

• Conferencing (Skype, Google Hangouts), Livestreaming Ustream, Livestream)

• Cloud storage (Dropbox, Google Drive, Colwiz, Evernote)

• Social Bibliography and bibliometrics (Mendeley, Zotero, ResearcherID, ORCID, Google Scholar Citations)

• Alternative office tools (Scrivener, Prezi)

Thursday, 21 February 2013

The Agenda

•Any questions...?

•Any concerns...?

•Any aims...?

•Any tools...?

Thursday, 21 February 2013

What do you want to do with social media?

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Who wants to listen and why?

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Three - phases? activities? levels?

•Broadcasting (consumption)

•Networking (participation)

•Sharing (reciprocation)

Thursday, 21 February 2013

BroadcastingBeing online:

• Visibility

• Spaces

• Identities and Collation

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Spaces

The Academic Web

The Open WebPassword

Proprietry/free

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Broadcasting tools

• Website

• Blog

• Online profile (Facebook, LinkedIn, Academia.edu, Google Profile, Google Scholar Citations profile, ResearcherID, ORCID)

Thursday, 21 February 2013

VisibilityInvisibility:

• Google yourself regularly (set up Google alerts) and check for information put online by others

• Check privacy and permission settings carefully

• Use pseudonyms

Visibility:

• Think about your metadata and keyword search terms

• link to ‘authority’ sites and have them link to you

• update ‘regularly’ and at peak times

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Collating Your Self: the Open Web

• Namechk - consistent username

• Grab variants of your (user)name

• Consistent and recognisable profile picture

• Gravatar

• Google Profile

• About.me, Flavours.me

• Share and update on other platforms

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Or not?If you want to keep your identities separate...

• Different platforms for different purposes

• Check privacy settings

• Have a policy on ‘friending’, ‘following’ etc and add a clear statement of your intentions

• Avoid logins and synching with Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn etc

• Don’t let your computer ‘remember’ your login

• Use pseudonyms and abstract profile pictures for personal identities

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Broadcasting

• You want to make sure that if someone’s looking for someone in your field, your name comes up. You also want to make sure that the profile they find is rounded, academic and professional.

How do you go about doing this?

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Networking

Networking online:

• Aims

• Contacts

• Participation

Thursday, 21 February 2013

...what do you want to get out of networking?

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Barriers

• What are the barriers in your situation and context as an early career researcher?

• What are the barriers in yourself to participation?

• What is the motivation for others to network with you?

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Networking tools

• Twitter

• Facebook (and similar)

• LinkedIn, Academia.edu

• Lanyrd, Methodspace, Researchgate

• JISCmail or Ucam email lists crassh-early-career-researchers-forum@lists.cam.ac.uk

• Any platform which enables a profile, some form of content, and some way to interact.

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Rheingold’s 8 stages for cultivating your Personal Learning Network

• Explore

• Search

• Follow

• Tune

• Feed

• Engage

• Inquire

• Respond

Howard Rheingold (2012). Netsmart: How to thrive online

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Networking

You want to make sure you hear about any developments in your field - new research, and also new jobs and opportunities. You also want some mentoring guidance.

• How do you go about creating an online network to achieve this?

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Creating and Sharing

• Frictionless

• Open (Creative Commons)

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Tools for Sharing

• Prezi or Slideshare

• Youtube or Vimeo (+ video editing software)

• Audacity + Soundcloud or Audioboo

• Issuu or Scribd

• Flickr

• Ustream or Livestream

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Sharing

You’re organising a conference, at which you are also presenting a paper.

How do you use social media to enhance the event and your own role in it?

Thursday, 21 February 2013

How is Practice Changing?

• Publishing Models: Open Access Publishing

• Quality Assessment Models: Altmetrics

• Funding: Collaboration and large projects

• Pedagogy: digital classroom, ‘pedagogy of abundance’

• Conference ‘attendance’ – livestreaming, liveblogging, podcasting

Thursday, 21 February 2013

How is Scholarship changing? Digital Humanities

• Born Digital and digitised research objects

• Big Data – data mining etc

• Digital analysis methods

• Data visualisation - Global information Systems (GIS) etc

• Crowdsourcing and recruitment

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Resources

On Good Practice for Researchers

• Vitae’s Handbook of Social Media for Researchers and Supervisors

• RIN’s Social Media: A Guide for Researchers

On the impact of digital technologies on academic practice

• Martin Weller (2012) The Digital Scholar

• John Naughton (2012) From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What you really need to know about the Internet

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Further Resources

• DH23Things online course

• CamHumBlog a blog about Humanities research blogging

• The Researcher Online Website with resources from workshops and practical tips and tools

• Digital Humanities Network

Thursday, 21 February 2013