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Why academics should get social

Eric Stoller
November 22, 2018

Why academics should get social

Featured talk on using social media for storytelling / to amplify the reach of academic research at the University of Nottingham's “Making the Headlines: Using media and other channels to share your research” event.

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Eric Stoller

November 22, 2018
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  1. “It blurs the social and professional” – a Twitter user

    who happens to be an academic @EricStoller #UoNEngaged
  2. “Social media done right encourages open-mindedness, brainstorming and human contact

    – it encourages academics to communicate purposefully, be receptive to the input of colleagues and readers and lean on each other’s advice when and if they reach theoretical or methodological impasses. Social media done right constitutes the most effective way of disseminating research. For example, Caspar Addyman used the web to recruit participants all over the world for his interdisciplinary Baby Laughter Project” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/10/25/open-research-for-academics-how-to-be-an-academic-in-the-twenty-first-century/ Open Research for Academics: how to be an academic in the twenty-first century @EricStoller #UoNEngaged