Using Web 2.0 for research: building an online academic identity

Dr Lorraine Warren, SouthamptonResearch workshop, NTNU, Trondheim,

March 2, 2010[acknowledgements to Lisa Harris, Southampton;

Kelly Smith, Huddersfield; Charlotte Carey, BCU; Jas Dhaliwal, Microsoft]

First and foremost I am a researcher! http://www.doclorraine.com/cv/ http://www.doclorraine.com/publications/ http://www.doclorraine.com/paper-

abstracts/http://www.doclorraine.com/projects/

http://www.doclorraine.com/uncategorized/isbe-2009-creative-industries-track-winner/

Topics

Innovation [open/disruptive] Technologies [new/emerging] Online (entrepreneurial)

identity/webscience/digital economy

Huge topic!!

Online Identity

Upside – proactive, reach new people, appear bigger than you are

Downside – issues of security, privacy, IP

Sociological take: Goffman, Giddens Narratives: stories of self, narratives

and ante-narratives [Boje]

Web 2.0

Social media Blogs, wikis, twitter, facebook,

flickr, slideshare, youtube, ning Sites such as Digg, Delicious Music sites such as blip.fm, spotify

How to set in academic context

Is it...?

Overview: Building an academic identity Rapidly build high value networks Build up a community of interest

around your work Quickly identify and share breaking

news, new resources, current issues Benefit from new forms of publishing

AT NO COST Making your work work for you NOW

For a researcher...(1) Highlighting material useful to colleagues Seeking collaborators Sourcing co-authors Networking with colleagues prior to

conferences Feeds from colleagues at conferences

that I cannot attend Research discussions Meeting new contacts Follow calls for funds (JISC)

For a researcher (2).. Ask questions to quickly gauge opinion

(crowdsourcing) Follow sources such as Times Higher in

real time, key journalists in my area [eg Jack Schofield/Guardian]

Post links to Digg and Delicious sites Put out calls for papers outwith your

sphere of influence Use eprints [repositories]

What is your style? Passives

Use what is there, use email, access information, maybe register accounts on FB, watch youtube, maybe use in presentations, text on mobile, largely individualised activity

Creators Use and create what is there, create video, sound,

upload, keep a blog, update, use FB for social events, use smart phone, access, join and participate in existing networks

Disruptor Create new networks, develop activities based on

real-time events and breaking news, main space of professional identity is online, rigorously maintained, download apps onto smartphone and extend

For me...

It’s where my future contacts and networks lie, and increasingly where I’ll be influencing thinking [velocity]

Also managing interface between work and play

Some examples

http://www.liberatemedia.com/blog/tim-greenhalgh/

http://www.doclorraine.com/

Next: Twitter demo www.twitter.com [www.itweet.net]