Education
#OfflineAc: Who are the offline-academics?
What are the benefits of social media use for academics and what are the barriers to taking part? Here are some conversations and thoughts collected from Twitter and the #OfflineAc hashtag.
- Here is the curated conversation. Please carry on adding your thoughts via the #OfflineAc hashtag.
Interesting post from @KL_Wheat on why some academics are not using social media, katherinelwheat.com/lifeafterthesi…
@TuftsGSAS Thanks for RT! Very interested to hear thoughts on how to get the debate flowing beyond the Twitter bubble!- RT @KamounLab: I call them twitter-voyeurs, they read tweets w/o signing up: RT @GdnHigherEd @eeleach: Who are the offline-academics? http://www.katherinelwheat.com/lifeafterthesis/who-are-the-offline-academics/
@LouWoodley @KL_Wheat I know there is a dedicated project starting at my uni looking at how masters students use social media- @LouWoodley @KL_Wheat it's mostly based around how they use it for jobs, but interesting start point to see current use and barriers
- @LouWoodley @KL_Wheat I push people to get online up here. I mostly get funny looks.
- @hapsci @LouWoodley Not many people in my dept are making use, but I haven't tried encouraging, expect negative reaction
- @LouWoodley @hapsci Yes, I agree completely! Very interested in evidence of this. Easy to say from inside that it works...
- @LouWoodley @hapsci ...and have seen citation benefits. But need to show time investment pays off long term
- @LouWoodley @KL_Wheat I think at the moment twitter is a great way of finding out about jobs, post-docs and making contacts for future work
- @LouWoodley @KL_Wheat however, it does take a level of involvement and time to use it to get those benefits.
- @KL_Wheat @LouWoodley they totally should include 'how many twitter followers do you have' on the REF. :-/
- @LouWoodley @KL_Wheat I could tweeting all day about benefits haha! I am talking @phdjourneyabdn , hopefully will get msg across
