1. 1. Presented to, Dr.Shafiq ur Rehman Presented by, Aasia Aslam Mphil1401 Department of Information Management, University of the Punjab Lahore
2. 2. CONTENTS What is social Media? History Features Types of social Media sites
3. 3. What is social Media Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online. (Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
4. 4. History Early social media on the World Wide Web began in the form of generalized online communities in 1994. New social networking methods were developed by the end of the 1990s, and many sites began to develop more advanced features for users to find and manage friends. Orkut became the first social networking service in Brazil in 2007). Facebook, launched in 2004, became the largest social networking site in the world in early 2009.
5. 5. Types of Social Media Face book Twitter Academia.edu Research Gate LinkedIn Google Plus My Space Orkut Flicker
6. 6. We will discuss the following two, Academia.edu Research Gate
7. 7. Academia.edu Academia.edu is a social media website for academics. It was launched in September 2008 and the site now has over 16 million registered users as of 2015. The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. Academia.edu was founded by Richard Price. Specifications: Sharing of research papers Analytics on profiles and papers Follow field relevant people
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9. 9. Academia.edu Launched September 2008 Type Private Headquarters San Francisco, California Area served Worldwide Founder Richard Price Type of site Platform for sharing Registration Free Available in English Current status Active Followers 17,118,671 (till jan.2015)
10. 10. Reception Academia.edu gives academics a "powerful, efficient way to distribute their research "and that it "will let researchers keep tabs on how many people are reading their articles with specialized analytics tools", and "also does very well in Google search results."Academia.edu seems to reflect a combination of social networking norms and academic norms.
11. 11. Domain name Academia.edu is not a university or institution for higher learning and so under current standards would not qualify for the EDU top level domain. The domain name "Academia.edu" was registered in 1999, prior to the regulations which required .edu domain names to be held by accredited post-secondary institutions. All .edu domain names registered prior to 2001 were grandfathered in and not made subject to the regulation of being an accredited post-secondary institution.
12. 12. Research Gate Research Gate ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and dedicated to science and research, Connect, collaborate and discover scientific publications, jobs and conferences. All for free. It started when two researchers discovered first-hand that collaborating with a friend or colleague on the other side of the world was no easy task.
13. 13. Research Gate Founded in 2008 by physicians Dr. Ijad Madisch and Dr. Sren Hofmayer, and computer scientist Horst Fickenscher. ResearchGate today has more than 5 million members. Features: Profile Messages Finding friends only for researchers and scientists Follow private chat room score
14. 14. Corporate history From 2009 to 2011, the site grew from 25,000 users to more than 1 million. The company grew from 12 employees in 2011 to 70 in 2012. ResearchGate was founded in 2008 by a virologist and computer scientist, Ijad Madisch. It started in Boston, but moved to Berlin, Germany shortly afterwards. According to The New York Times the website began with very few features, then developed over time based on input from scientists. Adoption of the site grew rapidly.
15. 15. Features The New York Times described the site as a mashup of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It has many of the features that are typical among social network sites, such as user profiles, messages that can be public or private, and methods for finding other users with similar interests. It differs from other social networks in that it is designed for researchers and scientists. Conversation strings focus on a research interest or paper and you can "follow" a research interest, in addition to following individual users. It has a blogging feature for users to write short reviews on peer-reviewed articles.
16. 16. ResearchGate indexes self-published information on user profiles to suggest members to connect with those that have similar interests. When a user posts a question, it is fielded to scientists that have identified on their user profile that they have a relevant expertise. It also has private chat rooms where scientists can share data, edit shared documents, or discuss confidential topics.
17. 17. As of 2013, it has 2.6 million users. ResearchGate's largest user-base is in Europe and North America, and in jan.2015 it has more than 6 million users. Most of ResearchGate's users are involved in medicine or biology,though it also has participants from engineering, computer science and agricultural sciences among others.
18. 18. Participants can get a higher "score" which ranks their "scientific reputation" by providing popular answers to questions and other metrics. Members are encouraged to share raw data and failed experiment results. ResearchGate does not require peer reviewer fees. Since accessing documents usually requires an account, ReseachGate is not considered to be open access.
19. 19. Reception As of 2009, according to BusinessWeek, ResearchGate was influential in promoting innovation in developing countries by connecting scientists from those nations with their peers in industrialized nations. BusinessWeek said the website had become popular largely due to its "navigation" and "ease of use". It also noted that ResearchGate had been involved in "a string" of notable cross-country collaborations between scientists that led to substantive developments.
20. 20. A paper published in the The International Information & Library Review conducted a survey with 160 respondents and found that out of those using social networking "for academic purposes", Facebook and ResearchGate were the most popular at the University of Delhi.
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