scholarly journals Academics Doing it Differently: Wooing, Hooking up and Spinning Stories

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Narelle Lemon ◽  
Megan McPherson ◽  
Kylie Budge
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Hooking Up ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Identity And Agency ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
New Type ◽  
The University ◽  
Ways Of Being

Wooing, hooking up and spinning stories are not the usual behaviours to describe academics and the ways they make connections with other scholars. These behaviours are now how some academics build relations for research, support and professional development as a part of the way they work in and across academia with social media use. How academics reveal facets of their identity online and use social media speak to ideas about identity and agency in the contemporary university. Academics are using social media in the university and this has risks to both the academy and the academic. Academics are taking on these risks in different ways, publically representing their academic selves and their research, building networks of connections with other scholars and using Twitter to be (non) strategic to benefit their research interests and inquiries. In this paper, we focus on how academics use Twitter to make connections and relations with others. The paper draws on preliminary findings from a study of academics using Twitter that used a modified snowball recruitment method to garner participants. Informal interviews were used to discuss how the academics used Twitter, what images they used to represent and describe themselves. How their academic identity was represented online as branding, strategic or not, and their various relations was a starting point in this analysis. We examine the themes of academics branding and being (non) strategic by the stories they told of relationship building on Twitter. That is wooing, or having conversations on specific topics to make a connection and demonstrate relevance, hooking up, or networking, and spinning stories, or rather enacting professional dialogues. We argue that these behaviours demonstrate how some academics are an example of a new type of 21st century academic and conclude by suggesting that in doing so they are examples of new ways of being and becoming an academic context.

scholarly journals 966. ID Fellows Cup: Leveraging Gamification and Social Media to Enhance Clinical Infectious Diseases Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S575-S576
Author(s):  
Lauren Nicholas Herrera ◽  
Nathan Nolan ◽  
Miguel A Chavez ◽  
Mauricio J Kahn ◽  
John D Cleveland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Program Director ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Online Educational Resources ◽  
The University

Abstract Background We hypothesized that we could leverage social media to recruit learners to a gamification-infused ID knowledge competition, and entice them to explore additional online educational resources. Methods We created the ID Fellows Cup, a knowledge-based trivia competition, to engage Infectious Diseases fellows. The game was crafted via Kaizen-Education, a software platform developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, that uses gamification to engage learners. Multiple choice questions including figures and/or text are presented to learners, followed by detailed teaching explanations. 60 questions emphasizing high-yield concepts were delivered over 4 weeks. Questions were written by fellows and reviewed by faculty at three programs. Elements of gamification (virtual rewards, leaderboards, etc.) were included to enhance engagement. Recruitment strategies included Twitter, program director emails, and peer-to-peer. We measured game statistics and participation. Learners were invited to complete a post-game survey about their experience. Results Table 1 shows our game statistics with broad geographic reach including 42 programs. Most fellows matriculated in 2019 or 2020; the number of US ID fellows equaled 17% of those completing ID in-training exam. Recruitment sources included 44% co-fellow, 42% Twitter, and 15% Program Director. Through 20 days with questions, we had 155 daily average users. Overall, fellows answered 11,419 total questions, representing 89% of all released questions. Of 103 responses to post-game survey (table 2) 97% would participate again and all felt the game was a good use of their time. Over 80% of participants reported some engagement with linked resources included in the answer explanations. In general, 78% felt engagement with online resources increased subsequent to participating in the game, including learning about at least one new online resource. Conclusion We leveraged social media and gamification to effectively engage, and stimulate ID learners to explore additional online educational resources. Technology enriched learning, helps supplement and globalize ID education, making it as diverse and engaging as our field. Disclosures Todd P. McCarty, MD, Cidara (Grant/Research Support)GenMark (Grant/Research Support, Other Financial or Material Support, Honoraria for Research Presentation)T2 Biosystems (Consultant) Prathit A. Kulkarni, M.D., Vessel Health, Inc. (Grant/Research Support)

The Hook, Woo, and Spin

2017 ◽  
pp. 167-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Jane McPherson ◽  
Narelle Lemon
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Significant Issue ◽  
Research Networks ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Scholarly Identity ◽  
The University ◽  
Ways Of Being

Academics using social media in the university are now a significant issue as it is being used to influence outcomes of research and teaching. Academics are conducting their scholarly lives on social media in ways that make relations with others, and their university visible. Academics create hooks for others to be interested in the work, woo them with scholarly identity work and ways of being on social media, and spin the stories of their research. In the Academics Who Tweet project the authors focused on how academics used Twitter as a research tool, developed and maintained research networks, and for professional development. This chapter draws on findings from one interview to attend to the multiple ways academics use, think about, and research with social media. This research is significant as it is focused on academics' conceptualizations of social media use and how they think it supports their professional practices.

scholarly journals Mutual Transparency or Mundane Transgressions? Institutional Creeping on Facebook

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 17-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Trottier
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Social Media Site ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The University

This article explores the post–secondary sector’s adoption of social media. Social media plays an increasing role in the visibility of personal information. The term refers to a set of web–based services that facilitate the authorship and distribution of media between users. The most popular social media site is Facebook with over 750 million users worldwide. Facebook was originally launched as a service for university students to author and distribute information about their personal identity, interpersonal connections, and social activities. While Facebook has since expanded its scope beyond universities, student life remains a heavily ‘Facebooked’ phenomenon. University administrators are keenly aware of their students’ presence on this site, and are adopting new practices to harness Facebook as an extension of their professional duties. This paper draws upon findings from a series of fourteen semi–structured face–to–face interviews with various administrators and employees at a medium–sized university in Eastern Ontario. As Facebook first emerged in an academic context, these findings provide a rich example of how institutions can scrutinize populations using social media. These findings suggest that institutional surveillance on Facebook stems from ground–up practices prior to implementing top–down mandates, suggesting that these practices have developed from institutional users’ personal experiences with the site. As well, the visibility of the university and its reputation is offered by respondents as motive for scrutiny, suggesting a discourse of mutual transparency of both the university as an institution as well as its student population.

scholarly journals Impact of social networks on political informing and political knowledge of students in Serbia

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (48) ◽  
pp. 3-36
Author(s):  
Neven Obradović
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
General Information ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The subject of this paper is the impact of social media on political informing and political knowledge of students in Serbia. Based on the premise that social media users can independently create their own information and cognitive environment, our theoretical starting point is the uses and gratification theory, which is often applied in the current research on the impact of social media on different forms of political participation. The main goal of the empirical research is to determine whether the use of social media based on satisfying the daily information, communication and entertainment needs brings about changes in the informing and political knowledge of Serbian students. Therefore, the main hypothesis of the research is - the use of social media based on gratifying the needs for information, communication and entertainment leads to better informing and knowledge about politics among students in Serbia. The research sample (N=554) consisted of students aged 19-24 from the Republic of Serbia. In addition, the respondents were the students from the three largest universities in the Republic of Serbia (the University of Belgrade, the University of Novi Sad and the University of Niš). The research findings indicated that the use of social media for the purpose of meeting users' personal needs for general information, communication and entertainment does not lead to a better informing and knowledge about politics among students in Serbia.

“Medium is the message” – Creating a University Image in the Time of Web 2.0

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Koszembar‑Wiklik
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

The starting point of the article is McLuhan’s statement that “medium is the message”. The way universities promote themselves in media is causing specific associations with recipients.  The university idea is changing, the requirement for entrepreneurship, the change in the way of the public universities funding, and the corporate approach to university force them to take action that will enable them to operate in a highly competitive market. The universities promote and build their image using mass media characteristic for business marketing, and at the same time, the media that reach young people – the social media.

DANCING WITH THE PARADOX — SOCIAL MEDIA IN INNOVATION THROUGH COMPLEXITY LENS

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550014 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARRI JALONEN
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Complexity Thinking ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Ways Of Being

This paper discusses the social media paradox in the context of innovation. Innovation is defined as a knowledge intensive process of seeing and doing things differently, whereas social media refers to new ways of being connected. Social media has revolutionised the ways how knowledge is produced, shared and accumulated through social interactions within the organisation and across the organisation's boundaries. From an organisational perspective, this raises the question of how social media influences — enabling or inhibiting — its ability to see and do things differently. Social media offers tempting opportunities but also poses new threats. It is a paradox involving contradictory forces. Despite growing interest among academics, there is a lack of understanding of the possibilities of social media in the specific context of innovation. This paper fills the research gap by arguing that complexity concepts offer a new type of language to understand social media. Seeing interaction as intrinsic to innovation activity, complexity thinking opens the paradox of being in charge but not in control.

The consolidation of microscopy technology into a university research support facility: Reflections on the 1980's and projections for the 1990's at the university of iowa

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 476-477
Author(s):  
Kenneth C. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Freeze Fracture ◽  
Freeze Substitution ◽  
Research Support ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Grade ◽  
The University ◽  
Support Facility

The University of Iowa Central Electron Microscopy Research Facility(CEMRF) was established in 1981 to support all faculty, staff and students needing this technology. Initially the CEMRF was operated with one TEM, one SEM, three staff members and supported about 30 projects a year. During the past twelve years, the facility has replaced all instrumentation pre-dating 1981, and now includes 2 TEM's, 2 SEM's, 2 EDS systems, cryo-transfer specimen holders for both TEM and SEM, 2 parafin microtomes, 4 ultamicrotomes including cryoultramicrotomy, a Laser Scanning Confocal microscope, a research grade light microscope, an Ion Mill, film and print processing equipment, a rapid cryo-freezer, freeze substitution apparatus, a freeze-fracture/etching system, vacuum evaporators, sputter coaters, a plasma asher, and is currently evaluating scanning probe microscopes for acquisition. The facility presently consists of 10 staff members and supports over 150 projects annually from 44 departments in 5 Colleges and 10 industrial laboratories. One of the unique strengths of the CEMRF is that both Biomedical and Physical scientists use the facility.

Penerapan Strategi Social Media Marketing Untuk Meningkatkan Penjualan Pada Dealer Mobil Toyota, Daihatsu dan Honda Bandung

Infoman s ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Yopi Hidayatul Akbar ◽  
Muhammad Agreindra Helmiawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
Website Content

Social media is one of the information media that is currently widely used by several companies and personally to convey information, with the presence of social media companies no longer need to spread offers through print media, they can use information technology tools in this case social media to submit offers the products they sell to users globally through social media. This social media marketing technique is the process of reaching visits by internet users to certain sites or public attention through social media sites. Marketing activities using social media are usually centered on the efforts of a company to create content that attracts attention, thus encouraging readers to share the content through their social media networks. The application of the QMS method is certainly not only submitted through search engine webmasters, but also on a website keywords must be applied that relate to the contents of the website content, because with the keyword it will automatically attract visitors to the university website based on keyword phrases that they type in the search engine. With Search Media Marketing Technique (SMM) is one of the techniques that must be applied in conducting sales promotions, especially in car dealers in Bandung, it is considered important because each product requires price, feature and convenience socialization through social media so that sales traffic can increase. Each dealer should be able to apply the techniques of Social Media Marketing (SMM) well so that car sales can reach the expected target and provide profits for sales as car sellers in the field.

Industrial Technology Graduates’ Acquired Skills and Competencies from the University

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Amado C Gequinto ◽  
Do Mads
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Global Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Industrial Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Descriptive Method

Skills and competencies are highly regarded in todays global market. Different agencies specifically those seeking for  technologists, technicians, and engineers, have stressed out that skills and competencies as major components  for individual workers.  This aimed to determine  the relevance and appropriateness of acquired skills and competencies by industrial technology graduates, and determine the extent of use of skills and competencies in the current employment. Review of related literatures and studies have been considered in the realization, understanding, analysis, and interpretation of this research exploration. A descriptive method of research was used with 78 graduates from 2015-2016 and 117 graduates from 2016-2017, who participated in the study survey process. The BatStateU Standardized Questionnaire was used to gather data. A brief interview and talk during the visit of alumni in the university was also considered, as well as the other means of social media like email, facebook, messenger, and text messaging.   Results show that skills and competecnices acquired by industrial technology graduates are all relevant and appropriate.  The study also found that there is some to great extent use of acquired skills and competencies to their current employment. The study implies that the acquired skills and competencies from the university significantly provided the graduates the opportunities ins the national and global markets and industries.

Authoritarianism and anonymity

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Michael Heron ◽  
Pauline Belford
Keyword(s):  
Computer Ethics ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Modern Computer ◽  
Culture Of Fear ◽  
Multiple Groups ◽  
The University ◽  
Witch Hunts

The Scandal in Academia [32] [33] [34] [35] is an extended fictional case-study intended for use as a teaching and discussion aid for educational practitioners looking to introduce elements of computer ethics into their curricula. Inspired by Epstein [17] [18] it is a full-cycle scenario involving many individuals which touches upon the complexity and interrelations of modern computer ethics. It has been trailed and evaluated as a teaching tool by the authors [36] and with multiple groups since then. However its utility as a general resource is limited without the academic context that supports deeper investigation of the material. It is to address this issue that the authors offer this commentary on the Scandal, with a focus on the ninth and tenth newspaper items presented within. Specifically these are Culture of Fear and Nepotism at University and Witch-Hunts at the University - IT Crackdown Causes Criticisms.

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