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Social Media and the Digital Scholar
Sue Beckingham | @suebecks
Sheffield Hallam University
Invited SpeakerLearning and Teaching Enhancement Unit and Research Office
University of Roehampton
http://www.briansolis.com/2013/07/the-2013-social-media-landscape-infographic/Solis 2013
So much choice! Where to start?
Boyer (1990): Scholarship Reconsidered
• advancing/ applying knowledge
• synthesising knowledge
• advancing knowledge
Discovery Integration
ApplicationTeachingadvancing/ applying knowledge about how to teach/ promote learning
Established 'sharing' mechanisms
LinkedIn updates
Blog comments
Blogposts
Tweets
Slideshare
YouTube& Vimeo
Newer digital mechanisms include
Share
Engage
Learn
Wider reach AND opportunities through openness
Crowd Learning
Involves harnessing the knowledgeand expertise of many people
in order to answer questions or address immediate problems.
Sharples et al 2013 - Innovating Pedagogy Report
“A culture of learningis composed of more than
classes, schools, and subjects
It is composed of the attitudes and enquiries of a culture of experimentation, curiosity and quirkiness.”
Stephen Downes 2013 Keynote ALTCSenior Researcher for Canada's National Research Council
e-books, audio books and e-journals Public social bookmarking lists e.g.Diigo and
Delicious Blogs YouTube, Wikipedia, Slideshare, Scribd,
Cloudworks as starting points His own blogs as both a 'scrapbook' and public
space to get feedback on ideas Twitter for feedback and suggestions;
seminars and conference backchannels Google Alerts - key phrases
Weller 2011@mweller
Tools and resources used to write this book (that differed to previous one in 2005)
Digital connectedness through the development of a personal
learning network
AND to continue this dialogue face to face
CREATORS
CURATORS
CRITICS
CONVERSATIONALISTS
COLLABORATORS
COMMUNICATORS
Social Media EMPOWERS individuals to become digital:
Be aware however: Your digital profile is your
online portfolio and your 'brand'
Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos once described your brand as: “What people say about you when you’re not in the room.”
Hootsuite 2012
“The conversation is happening about your brand whether you’re a part of it or
not.”Seth Godin.
What do people SEE when they Google your name? What opinions do they form?
People searches every day
2013
Algorithms
It’s not what you know, it’s no longer simply who you know,
its all about WHO knows
Beware of your Digital Doppelgänger!
Politician
MusicianFilmmaker
Explorer
Active Listening cannot be
over emphasised enough
Second quarter results June 2013
1.15 billion
819 million mobile MAUs
Monthly active users
(MAUs)
51% increase year-over-year
For example SAGE: An opportunity to pick up on featured books, journals and
news items.
SAGE Educational ResearchSAGE Media and CommunicationSAGE SociologySAGE Methods
Pages
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/suebeckingham
5.7 billion professionally oriented
searches were carried out in 2012 on LinkedIn
11 thousand within 60 seconds
200 million active users creating over 400 million tweets each day
Interactive showing by discipline number of people and publications uploaded
Education: 902,974Social Sciences: 850,091Medicine: 17,193,524
Digital Curation
The selection, preservation, maintenance, collection
and archiving of digital assets
Can be public or private
Paste in url link
Auto populates
Option to add your own insight/notes
Option to share via social networks
Featured 'bundle'
Digital Bibliometrics: Using social media to
measure scholarly impact
Using the Activity Stream to uncover off-site engagement
Increasingly people engage with, share, and discuss content on social networks.
Over 80% of interactions with content take place on sites other than the content owner’s website.
So, it is likely that most people become aware of and interact with your blog posts, videos, and articles on
websites other than your own.
Promote your professional networks via
your email signature and business cards
Leading by example
Students may be social savvy but are often
impact naive..
The importance of getting the 'boundaries' balance right
integrator:
bridge builder to over sharer
segmentor:
cautious to unsearchable
Grant 2013
Social Media and the Digital Scholar
The exponential growth of social media and ubiquitous use of mobile technology has changed the way we communicate both socially and for many also professionally. It is therefore timely to consider how social media can be used to develop personal learning networks and through open sharing find opportunities to also develop our scholarly practice.
Sue Beckingham | @suebecks