using social media in research ysj2016 jane secker
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USING SOCIAL MEDIA IN RESEARCH
Dr Jane Secker, LSEYork St John’s University: 11th March 2016
What is social media?
It’s all about apps…...
Social media apps by Jamie Howie licensed under CC-BY
Group discussion
What social media do you use already? Personally? Professionally ?
For research? For teaching? Share any advantages / reservations?
Biography
Research
Teaching
Conferences
Social media and research
Finding information / keeping up
to date
To undertake research•Crowdsourcing knowledge
•Data mining social media
Communication and
networking
Collaboration /
collaborative working
Building your online identity / showcase
your research
Creativity / Evaluation
Discussion
How do you currently…• Find information / get alerts for new research • Manage or organise the information you find• Store or archive your own research papers• Cite information, create your bibliographies• Share your research findings • Collaborate with colleagues• Build your academic network
How I do it?
Social media can help with…..
Finding information / keep up
to date
Planning and
managing projects
Making and
sharing notes
Storing files / work collaborati
vely
Finding information / keeping up to date
Using social media tools the information comes to you
You can set up alerts on all types of websites, scholarly databases, Google etc.
Technology underlying this is RSS Feed readers easy to set up and add feeds (Feedly,
Newsblur) Flipboard designed for use on tablets and phones -
app available Good for reading on the go – can download some
stories and then read them wherever (e.g. on the tube)
Planning and managing research: Wunderlist
Great for list makers – Trello another similar tool
Create and organise tasks in lists – home, work, different projects
Ability to share lists with others – good if working collaboratively Can assign tasks to others, set deadlines.
Make notes about each tasks and chat function
Attach files about a task – works with Dropbox
Wunderlist
Making & sharing notes
Evernote allows you to incorporate images, audio, video and URLs to your notes to give notes more context.
You can create checklists to sort out your activities and priorities, making Evernote useful for personal and academic use.
Archives your notes and has a search function, making it easier to search through your notes for key concepts than having to look through notebooks.
Share notes via email, Twitter, messaging and even send important emails to your Evernote account, so that you can search for them through Evernote
Share notes and notebooks with colleagues for collaborative working – chat function
Access across platforms – computer, smartphones and tablets, and access notes you’ve made on any by syncing your notes to your Evernote account
Evernote
Storing files and working collaboratively
Dropbox and Google Drive let you store and access your files anywhere and whenever, from your computers, phones, or tablets.
They’re easy to set up and use. You can change a file on the web, on your computer, or on
your mobile device and it updates on every device where you’ve installed Google Drive. In Dropbox you can also edit documents, automatically add photos and show videos.
You can share, collaborate, or work alone. You can store the first 15 GBs for free across Google Drive,
Gmail, and Google+ Photos. Dropbox offers 2 GBs of free space with the potential to earn more.
Social media can help with…..
Storing managin
g sharing
& resource
s
Promoting and
sharing your
research
Academic
networking
Creativity and using digital media
Storing and managing readings Mendeley & Zotero
Easy to set up and start using Access anywhere + desktop version on
multiple PCs/laptops and syncing simple Easy to add references + documents: pdfs /
journal resources/ form the web as you research
Sharing readings between colleagues Inserting citations as you write Finding new research / academic networking
Storing, sharing, curating resources
Tools such as delicious and diigo mean you can access your bookmarks from any computer – stored online
You can organise your bookmarks using tags (searchable)
More visual tools such as Pinterest, Scoop.it, Paper.li
You can see popular resources other people are bookmarking
Delicious and Diigo
Academic networking sites
Increasing number of academic networking sites: Academia.edu, Research Gate, Piirus, LinkedIn
Find and connect with colleagues with similar research interests using LinkedIn groups
Find a research partner / funding on Piirus Can add your publications to these sites to
showcase your research and find research papers in your field
Scholarly Twitter Build a professional network to keep up
to date and promote your own research Follow conferences and events remotely
#digifest16 Engage in discussions with colleagues
#infolit #openaccess #historyjobs #edchat
LSE Guide to Twitter for academics Watch Bonnie Stewart’s recent talk on
Scholarly Twitter Using Twitter as a data source
Disseminating & sharing research Blogging good for reflecting,
analysing & articulating and allow progress & development of a research project to be tracked over time
Or use blogging software to build a website
Enable engagement with a academic 'network’ through comments
Free hosted blogs: WordPress.com or Blogger.com
Making a greater impact with your research
LSE Blogs (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/) Impact blog has over 20,000 readers
Using digital media: creativity
Find and share video and images YouTube Flickr http://search.creativecommons.org
Find and share presentations Slideshare
Create videos, cartoons, images using tools such as Animoto, Jing, PowToon, Gliffy, Coggle or Poplet
Desks Teaching Room University of Strathclyde by jisc_infonet
Teaching Math or Something by foundphotoslj
All photos licensed under Creative Commons licence
Teaching the youngster to feed by foxypar4
teach.NSW Tuesday 3rd June 2008 by Joriel "Joz"...
Time to play Pick 2 tools you’ve not used before / or
don’t use to its full potential
Experiment in your group
Consider if these are something you might use to support your research
Social media data for research Possibilities of collecting / harvesting
huge datasets due to the numbers who use social media
Powerful data visualisation tools Ethical and legal issues to consider Some examples of LSE Research
Reading the riots Crowdsourcing the UK Constitution Social media and public opinion in the 2010
general election
The Researcher’s toolkit: Jane’s top ten
1. Wunderlist2. Twitter 3. Evernote4. WordPress5. Dropbox6. Google Drive7. Mendeley8. SlideShare9. Flickr10. LinkedIn
Issues to consider Measuring the impact of social media:
Altmetrics – measuring more than just traditional citations will become increasingly important in the REF
Sharing and collaborating becomes easier but you need to consider ethical and legal issues carefully Informed consent when using data from
social media Privacy / data protection Your online identity Copyright and IPR – be mindful of what you
share!
Final discussion and actions
What other social media would you like to use now?
Identify possible uses for social media in your own research
Share your ideas…...
Further reading Social media for research: http://libguides.ncl.ac.uk/
socialmedia LSE Impact Blog:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/ Using social media in research: Jamie Bartlett:
http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/view.php/using-social-media-in-research
Social media is more than simply a marketing tool. The Guardian. July 2012: http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/jul/24/social-media-academic-research-tool
UCISA (2015) Social Media Toolkit. Available at: http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/exec/socialmedia.aspx [accessed 11 December 2015]
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR): http://aoir.org/
