New Social Media, New Social Science
Twitterchat Wednesday 5th December 2013. Today saw another lively NSMNSS tweetchat ably hosted by @einterview and several other members of our community who have kindly been volunteering their services to support an ongoing dialogue on topics of interests to the network. I was sorry not to be able to join you all so here's a Storify of the chat to help record those insights for the wider community.
- The chat was trailed by some interesting posts giving personal accounts and asking primer questions to get people thinking.
What Social Media means to my research: By Amy Aisha Brown, PhD BloggerAfter reading Dr Janet Salmons’s last p... http://bit.ly/1cVsS1l- And assisted by the growing mainstream discussion of the role of social media research, such as this recent discussion on the role the UK funding councils should play...
- RT @MarieHowell: @cosmos_project @NSMNSS Or shd #SocialMedia Co's provide free data & SPONSOR academic studies that provide Social Value eg…
- Thanks to everyone who RTd and publicised the chat, you are all stars.
- #nsmnss chat (starting in ~15 mins!) will be hosted by Janet Salmons aka @einterview who has some fab Qs for you! http://nsmnss.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/defining-our-terms-what-is-social-media.html?m=1 …
- And we're off... Great to see researchers from both sides of the Atlantic joining the chat, one of the
@einterview Hi, I'm Helen Kara, Board member of @TheSRAOrg with responsibility for ethics, also indie researcher, very interested in #NSMNSS
@einterview Hi, I'm Joe Murphy, survey methodologist at @RTI_Intl & @SurveyPost contributor. Interested in social media in research #NSMNSS
@einterview Hi, I'm Antonella, PhD candidate at @elearncenter (UOC) and researching PhD students using social media #NSMNSS- @einterview For me, the key is in the word 'social': scope for conversation, which can be in real time (or almost-tho not essential) #NSMNSS
- @einterview For me it does. #NSMNSS
- And this posted image from Joe's new book got people talking..
Here's an image from our book Social Media, Sociality, & Survey Research w/ what we considered social media. #NSMNSS pic.twitter.com/vrTwuLck94
