Academic roles & social mediaMathias Klang… @klang67

Policy paranoia Do policies create good practice or protect the organization from known bad habits of users?

"Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments

doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors,

classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are

detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and

philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.”

Peter Medawar

The phd student, the phd & the docent…

Research, Teaching, Self-discovery, Networking, Procrastination….

Three “duties”Loyalty: Advertising the university & its researchMoral obligation: Citizen dialogueLaw: “Tredje uppgiften”/outreach

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if you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold

Authorities in the cloud

What can social media do (for academia)?

Finding & supporting collaboration

Communication over space and time zone

Monitoring. Research, research interpretation & conferences.

Brainstorming. Short term collaboration?

Finding information & people

Slowly changing attitudes but…

Wikipedia still a threat

Twitter a joke

Facebook?

The unrewardedacademic blogger

This project is about overcoming image problems

We need to explain rewards and downplay threats.

No additional rules required

Informing how SM can be used to support

Teaching Research Communication

Removing barriers to entry…

(and a few boogy men)

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