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Social media as a research tool
1. Social Media as a Research Tool
Jon Curwin
Birmingham City Business School
Michael Schmidt
Centre for Academic Success
RESCON
15 December 2014
5. Engaging with the community
How to contact us:
4. Space for reflection
2. Informal interactions
1. Formal Dialogue
3. Documentation
Jon Curwin
Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow
Business School
Jon.Curwin@bcu.ac.uk
http://www.linkedin.com/in/joncurwin
https://twitter.com/joncurwin
Michael Schmidt
Academic Skills Development Tutor
Centre for Academic Success
Michael.Schmidt@bcu.ac.uk
http://www.linkedin.com/in/schmidtuk
https://twitter.com/mschmidtuk
Poster available from:
http://www.slideshare.net/
michaelschmidtuk/
With Facebook having some 1.35 billion monthly active users,
LinkedIn 187 million and Twitter 284 million, this worldwide
phenomena of social media cannot be easily be ignored by a
researcher wishing to share ideas and promote their interest.
These new forms of communication are changing behaviours
and expectations – ask any politician caught out by Twitter.
Social media presents new tools for research itself and new
ways to support the dialogue between student and supervisor.
Research has shown (Minocha and Petres 2013) that
researchers and supervisors are using social media in six
distinctive ways:
formal dialogue, informal interactions, documentation,
space for reflection, engaging with the community and
keeping informed.
In addition to a few
academic papers,
why not:
Share progress to
date on
academia.edu?
A LinkedIn group?
YouTube (even
your own channel)?
Leave PowerPoint
presentations on
slideshare?
Create a Prezi
presentation?
6. Keeping informed
References
Minocha, S and Petres, M (2013) Handbook of Social Media for
researchers and supervisors, The Open University, [online] Available from:
http://oro.open.ac.uk/34271/1/Vitae-Innovate-Open-University-Social-
Media-Handbook-2012.pdf
[Accessed 4 December 2014]
Let others see
a managed
public domain
profile if they
google your
name?
Give Ted Talks,
YouTube,
iTunesU,
Twitter,
LinkedIn a go?
In addition to
talking to a
few
colleagues,
why not:
In addition to
the usual
mechanisms of
meetings and
emails, why
not:
Skype
conferencing
with two or
more
researchers?
A wiki for
building a joint
understanding
of the research
process and
content?
Video progress
statements
using kaltura
or Vimeo or
other similar
platform?
In addition to
the usual
mechanisms
of meetings
and emails,
why not:
Try a
discussion
forum using
Moodle or
similar?
Use a social
media
platform like
Facebook?
Tweet to
build up an
interest
group?
Blog new
ideas using
WordPress?
In addition to the
usual mechanisms
of email attachments
and external USB
drive, why not:
Dropbox,
googledrive,
icloud, onedrive,
skydrive?
Blogging software
like WordPress?
Use an academic
referencing system
like EndNote?
Create electronic
pages using a
system like
Mahara?
In addition to the
usual mechanisms of
trying to hang on to
memories or scraps of
paper, why not:
Mindmap using
MindGenius or
similar?
Blog, Tweet or use
a Wiki?
Plan using DropTask
or similar?
A diagram using
Visio?
Use Wordle to
generate a word
cloud?
Introduction