More than a game: Social

media in academic practice

Kate Galloway

13 March 2015

How’s your social media

literacy?

Moral panic?

Social media…

Keeps us apart

“Your generation would probably ‘livetweet’ the apocalypse” you say, and you laugh

Herrsassyfras Tumblr

The premise

Social media connects people

Connections form networks

This serves academic work

Scholarship*

teaching

researchengagement

informedConcept

-ion

Communic-ation

reflection

*Boyer (1990); Trigwell et al (2000)

BLOGGING

The tools

Longer form

writing

•Free platforms

•Reverse order

Followers

•Others can follow you

•You can follow others

comments

•Comment function = instant feedback

Traditional academic publishing

QuickFoundations for

scholarly outputsProcess ideas

Blogging (it’s just writing!)

Connecting

Connecting

TWITTER

The tools

Microblog

• 140 char posts

• Reverse order

Followers • Follow

interests

Interact• Retweet

• Replies

Twitter is like

a giant

cocktail

party…

Connecting on Twitter

Find interests

Institutions eg media, unis

Academics in your field

People who look interesting

Network

Identify your interests

Tweet relevant links

Retweet others

Reply to others

My multiplex

world

lawyers

feminists

rowers

North Qld’ers

Academics

PhD students

Stay informed

Higher ed

newslaw

sport justicefun

Curated news

feed

Search

by topic

Building a network

Blog

Tweet

Case

study:Qld

election

Tweet info about voter ID,

rights

Reports of wrongful refusal

to vote

Tweet storyTrending

nationally

Media interview

Social media in academic

practiceengage

inform

tweet

blog

idea

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@katgallow

Slide Reference

4 http://herrsassyfras.tumblr.com/post/112619910276

6 Ernest Boyer, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate

(The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 1990)

Keith Trigwell et al, 'Scholarship of teaching: a model' (2000) 19(2)

Higher Education Research and Development 155

9 http://www.petinfoclub.com/Exotics/FAQs/A_tortoise%27s_shell_rings.aspx

10 http://farmette.ie/2010/04/16/cross-dressing-a-wild-hare/

http://www.rifitmag.com/brick-by-brick/

http://www.bigskyassociates.com/blog/bid/383099/Organizational-Process-

Improvement-From-Paper-To-Execution

11 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2014/11/19/do-not-turn-our-people-into-

fringe-dwellers-once-again-fitzroy-crossing-groups-on-threats-to-close-wa-

remote-communities/

12 http://www.afr.com/p/national/legal_affairs/law_schools_told_to_leap_into_s

ocial_pAVKdBPkusTlVRPNr71qSL (image cropped to fit)

15 http://www.hospes.com/en/hotel-boutique-hotel-luxury-mallorca-hospes-

maricel-spa/boutique-hotel-mallorca-gastronomy/boutique-hotel-mallorca-

gastronomy-lounge-145.html

See ‘cocktail party’ reference at http://www.blogclarity.com/making-sense-

of-twitter-its-the-never-ending-cocktail-party/