February 2011
Social Media:A guide for researchers
This guide has been produced by Alan Cann of the Department of Biology at the University of Leicester,
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Contents
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and mainly used to
guide discusses the use of social media for research and academic purposes, rather than the many other
research, and open
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used,
Blogging:
Microblogging:
Social networking:
Aggregators:
Conferencing:
Wikis:
Social bookmarking:
Social bibliography:
Social news:
Social documents:
Project management:
Photographs:
Video:
Live streaming:
Virtual worlds:
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Alun Salt (Archaeoastromomist)
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Consuming social media
interest and engage students and has helped them become student researchers in
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that the encroachment of technology into every aspect of
have led to the charge that social media are trivial in nature and suitable only for entertainment rather than
research, and this leads some to argue that it is therefore
blur the
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Figure 1: The academic research cycle
by professional researchers usually behind closed doors
knowledge
knowledge
at conference
of interest can
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constraints
The reasons that made me start using social media are because it
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ethical approval
Quality assurance and assessment of scholarly research: A guide for researchers, academic administrators and librarians (2010) and Peer review: A guide for researchers (2010)
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researcher needs to be able not only to do the research but needs to be able to communicate,
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social
Zotero
store, organise and retrieve references and notes about literature you have read or
literature as
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Blogginggroup
easy
Blogger
are listed
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discovery and
Figure 2: Managing what you read
Filter
Ignore Read
it is not useful
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combine tools
you probably need to build
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Figure 3: How networks increase in complexity
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Terry Wassall (Principal Teaching Fellow, Sociology)
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community engages
Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder.
The Wisdom of Crowds.
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.
Nature
Nature
for PLoS Comput Biol,
Academy of Sciences USA.
If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0.
Journal of Clinical Oncology
The Wisdom of Crowds.
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Audio and video tools
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Chris Jobling (Lecturer, Engineering)(Lecturer, Ancient History)
(Archaeoastronomist)Ruth Filery Travis (PhD, Archaeology)
(Principal Teaching Fellow, Sociology)
Aggregators
Blogging
Browser
Content
Crowd sourcing
Likes
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Metadata
Social documents
Social media
Social networking
Social news
Tagging
Virtual worlds
Vlog
or you can
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