4. I don’t really know what academic people does.
4
I assume that you
Discover interesting material
Organize and study that stuff
Write groundbreaking papers
Publish them (possibily)
Socialize with peers
And you get paid for this,
wow!
5. 5
NOW, WHAT IS
SOCIAL MEDIA AND
WHY SHOULD YOU
LIKE IT?
6. 6
“Social media essentially is a
category of online media
where people are talking,
participating, sharing,
networking, and bookmarking
online.” - Mass Relevance
Definitions are so boring!
http://heidicohen.com/social-media-definition/
7. 22%
7
OF THE WORLD POPULATION
USES SOCIAL MEDIA
http://www.adzag.co/tag/social-media-2012/
10. 10
I DIDN’T KNOW.
SO, I ASKED
TO SOME
ACADEMICS.
11. 11
“In terms of academic research,
social media are useless.
Academic research practices
are too far from the new world.”
- Stefano Mirti
12. 12
“Social media are useful to
highlight new research, papers,
conferences. They surely aren’t
research tool.”
- Simona Casarotto
13. 13
“With Twitter I can follow my
sociology-heroes without
having to ask for friendship
and I receive real-time
updates about papers and
conferences” - Ivana Pais
14. 14
“With Twitter academic
research becomes open,
worldwide. That’s the real
challenge” - Ivana Pais
15. “I use social network to be up
15
to date. I follow some
sociology departments on
Twitter (Harvard and
Columbia), single professors
and publishing houses”
- Cecilia Manzo
37. 37
DESIGN ROYALE IS A ONLINE LEARNING
PROJECT COMPLETELY BASED ON FACEBOOK.
http://www.virtualeco.org/2011/07/design-royale-il-social-learning-con-facebook-e-possibile/
38. 38
ANTONIO
SCARPONI
TAUGHT
STUDENTS HOW
TO BUILD A “FISH
AND CROPS
MOBILE UNIT”
40. 40
“Many new online/software
platforms let you do research
and organize your content.
Increasingly, they add social
and networking features”
- Francesco Saviozzi
48. 48 So, assuming that you need to
Discover interesting material
Organize and study that stuff
Write groundbreaking papers
Publish them (possibily)
Socialize with peers
What would you use?