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: …
#PhDChat – thoughts on twitter methodologies (& an experiment in open, collaborative paper writing.)
This post carries over from Martin Eve’s and Andy Coverdale’s initial posts about the process of writing a joint paper about the phenomena of #phdchat; a weekly twitter chat for PhD students, which has been appearing since around October 2010. Both Martin and Andy have covered the overview of the chat, describing and asking questions about the use of the digital artefact (in this case, Twitter) in this context. It is implied (through participate observation) that the chat itself is a method in which to engage PhD students using social media often in an attempt to promote inclusion within a …