1. #aaeesmarts
#aaee2014rs
EfS & Social Media Savvy Research
@ljlarri Larraine Larri & @Dr_MaxNewlands Maxine Newlands
2. Altmetrics, or ‘article level metrics’ (Priem, Taraborelli, Groth, and Neylon, 2010) is an emerging field of research in both academia, and non- academic environs. In the past five years, a dozen or more websites have sprung up solely aimed at measuring academic data. (such as Google scholar, ORCID, Scopus, Academia.edu, Web of Science, ResearcherID).
Altmetrics and Social Media
3. Author @Dr_MaxNewlands James Cook University 2014
Four keys steps academics need to be thinking about when engaging with Altmetrics and social media (Wolstenholme, 2013)
1.Craft: your public and online persona
2. Narrative: your story, what are you working on? link to the news cycles.
3.Lag effect: on average, a journal article takes three years to register
4.Neutrality.
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should be seen as a network, the same as conferences, research clusters, etc. Who you choose to should be people you want in your professional network.
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Networks and forums share ideas and publications: do the same with Twitter.
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View twitter as your business card. @aaeetweets
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Tweets and Headlines are similar.
Tweetation: a tweet containing a citation (Eysenbach, 2011)
5. Inputs
Input 1: What is social media? Set up a Twitter account (for those who don’t already have one) (5 minutes)
Table dialogue questions: What social media tools have you used? Which if any have you applied to your research and how have you done this. Tweet key points. (10 minutes)
Input 2: How can social media aid research projects? How can social media open up new research and teaching opportunities through online and virtual collaborations; and greater cross disciplinary collegiality. Examples and ideas. (5 minutes)
Table dialogue questions: What examples do you already know of where social media have been used as a research tool or for academic collaboration and knowledge generation? Tweet key points. (10 minutes)
Input 3: Why and how can we best engage with social media? What is the future potential? (5 minutes)
Table dialogue questions: What opportunities can you now see in relation to EE/ES research, cross discipline collaborations, and pedagogical practice's? What strategies might you consider using? What do you think of this idea of an ‘academic narrative’? Tweet key points. (10 minutes)
