Twitter Archiving Revisited: Preparing for the demise of Twapperkeeper
Twapperkeeper: Goodbye Tweet Archives? On the week of a supervision meeting that discussed my methods chapter write up and that returns me to my PhD thesis after 6 weeks away from it working on other things, it was drawn to my attention by several people that those twapperkeeper archives (that we couldn’t export and download anymore but could still access) were to be wiped ahead of its Hootsuite integration in Jan 2012. All those tweets, all that research that never was, compulsively collecting every mention of the #worldcup like I was actually going to bother sifting through them all at a …
Social Media for Research: Open Resource and Reflection for #MASocialMedia
I would like to share the session that I had prepared for a guest workshop that I was to deliver to this year’s MA in Social Media. Something, judging on last year’s session – and the 6 other sessions that I’ve delivered over the last 3-4 weeks, I was looking forward to trying out and exploring using social media as a research context. As it never got past the initial discussion “what is research?” I can safely say that it didn’t work well for this particular cohort’s expectations. What I can do, instead, is offer up the entire workshop as a resource …
Research Practices 2.0: Reflections on #RP2NOTT
Back in the summer, I was approached by Andy Coverdale to be interviewed and to help out on a project around social media for PhD students. The first part of the task was to be interviewed about how I use social media as part of my research practice, to be used as part of a web resource hosted by the University of Nottingham Graduate School. This was launched this week, ahead of an event in accompany the site. The event, “Research Practices 2.0” was organized for PhD students and facilitated by PhD students – where alongside Andy, I was approached …
Social Media for @UniWestScotland PhD Students: Overview of Workshop (21st April, 2011)
This 3 hour workshop broadly explored the role of new media within academia from writing, research and dissemination perspective. It tracked the ongoing history of social online technologies, unpick the common myths associated with web 2.0 platforms and discuss the cycle of activity required in order to create and maintain an academic profile online. This workshop provided an opportunity to brainstorm strategies surrounding the use of social media for promoting independent and group work. This was recommended for all levels and is a trans-disciplinary activity (and is not exhaustive) The workshops was split into three sections, lasting 45 minutes each: …