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Social Media for Academics
£21.80
Social media has become an inescapable part of academic life. It has the power to transform scholarly communication and offers new opportunities to publish and publicise your work, to network in your discipline and beyond and to engage the public. However, to do so successfully requires a careful understanding of best practice, the risks, rewards and what it can mean to put your professional identity online.
Inside you′ll find practical guidance and thoughtful insight on how to approach the opportunities and challenges that social media presents in ways that can be satisfying and sustainable as an academic. The guide has been updated throughout to reflect changes in social media and digital thinking since the last edition, including:
- The dark side of social media – from Trump to harassment
- Emerging forms of multimedia engagement – and how to use to your advantage
- Auditing your online identity – the why and how
- Taking time out – how to do a social media sabbatical.
Visit Mark′s blog for more insights and discussion on social media academic practice.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 2nd edition (7 Oct. 2019), SAGE Publications Ltd |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 1744 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 288 pages |
| Page numbers source ISBN | 1526459116 |
by Dr. H. Kara
This book is a great blend of quantitative and qualitative information, theory and practical advice. It explains how to use social media to manage information, publicise your work, create and maintain a professional online identity – among many other potentially useful functions. But it’s not all happy-clappy; there is a really useful chapter, new in this second edition, on ‘The Dark Side of Social Media’, with some clear-sighted and helpful information about the lies, threats, and surveillance we can experience online and how to protect yourself against them. The writing throughout is very readable and the author seems like a sympathetic friend, especially (for me) in the chapter on finding time for social media. If you loathe social media and all it stands for, this book is unlikely to change your mind. But if you are anywhere from a reluctant to an enthusiastic user of social media, I would strongly recommend this book.
by Tyler
This new, revised edition of Social Media for Academics is a tremendously valuable resource. Mark Carrigan covers a great deal of ground about the opportunities and potential pitfalls for using social media that can apply to a diverse range of academic users.
It is written at just the right level to be useful for both longtime users and those wanting to understand the topic more deeply before deciding whether to be more active on social media. The book does an admirable job engaging with existing research literature, but also isn’t overly abstract, a trap that many books on social media tend to fall into — there is clear, practical advice that I think can be very useful for just about any user.
There are a lot of ways to use this book, which I think is a definite strength. With topics ranging from using social media for scholarship, disseminating academic work, building networks and managing information, this book is essentially the next best thing to taking an intensive course on the topic, written by one of the most knowledgeable writers and practitioners on the topic.