Social media use in the research workflow

Rowlands, Ian; Nicholas, David; Russell, Bill; Canty, Nicholas; Watkinson, Anthony

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“…For example, Zhu (2014) found that females are more inclined to adopt microblogging tools, while men prefer wikis. On the other hand, Rowlands, Nicholas, Russell, Canty, and Watkinson (2011) reported that men have a higher preference for LinkedIn. However, some studies suggest that other factors such as age and scientific domain are also important, when exploring genders issues (Thelwall & Kousha, 2014;Zhu, 2014).…”

Section: Differences Across Age Gender and Scientific Disciplinementioning

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Networked Scholarship and Motivations for Social Media use in Scholarly Communication

Manca

Ranieri²

2017

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Research on scholars' use of social media suggests that these sites are increasingly being used to enhance scholarly communication by strengthening relationships, facilitating collaboration among peers, publishing and sharing research products, and discussing research topics in open and public formats. However, very few studies have investigated perceptions and attitudes towards social media use for scholarly communication of large cohorts of scholars at national level. This study investigates the reasons for using social media sites for scholarly communication among a large sample of Italian university scholars (N=6139) with the aim of analysing what factors mainly affect these attitudes. The motivations for using social media were analysed in connection with frequency of use and factors like gender, age, years of teaching, academic title, and disciplinary field. The results point out that for the most used tools the influence of the variables examined was higher in shaping scholars' motivations. In fact, frequency of use, age, years of teaching, and disciplinary field were found to be relevant factors especially for LinkedIn and ResearchGate-Academia.edu, while gender and academic title seemed to have a limited impact on scholars' motivations for all social media sites considered in the study.Considerations for future research are provided along with limitations of the study.

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Section: Differences Across Age Gender and Scientific Disciplinementioning

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Networked Scholarship and Motivations for Social Media use in Scholarly Communication

Manca

Ranieri²

2017

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“…At least one study finds that age is a poor predictor of social media usage within a research context (Rowlands, Nicholas, Russell, Canty, & Watkinson, 2011). Obviously, the use of social media is increasing rapidly in the classroom (Dabbagh & Kitsantas, 2012).…”

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Faculty Usage of Social Media and Mobile Devices: Analysis of Advantages and Concerns

Roebuck

Siha

Bell

2013

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This study seeks to understand the perceptions of professors using social media (also called Web 2.0 tools) in the classroom, what kinds of mobile devices are used to access the social media used, and what drives individuals to use them. In addition, it seeks to identify the advantages and concerns faculty has with the use of social media for classroom instruction. Two-Way Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) procedure was used to ascertain whether differences existed between two dependent variables and (a) gender, (b) different academic ranks, and (c) gender *rank to determine if there are any interaction effects between genders regarding the magnitude of their perceptions of advantages and concerns about social media uses for classroom instruction as they migrate through the ranks. Professors, regardless of sex or rank, held statistically the same views of the advantages as well as the concerns related to social media usage in the classroom.

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“…A number of studies have used web blog text as a source of qualitative data on patient's perspective regarding different medical conditions and treatments (Shah & Robinson 2011). Researchers in the field of 'social research' have extensively utilized this form of social engagement and discourse to gather and analyse useful data and text that may have otherwise been lost and untapped (Denecke & Nejdl 2009;Hook 2008;Rowlands et al 2011). It also highlights how traditional research methods might be transferred to the online context and how the internet sets up new possibilities in collecting data for research purposes (Hook 2008).…”

Section: Universities: a Toxic Environment For Academics? An Analysismentioning

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Australian College of Mental Health Nursing 41st International Mental Health Nursing Conference – ‘Mental Health Nurses: shifting culture, leading change’

2015

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Social media use in the research workflow

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Cited by 226 publications

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Networked Scholarship and Motivations for Social Media use in Scholarly Communication

Networked Scholarship and Motivations for Social Media use in Scholarly Communication

Faculty Usage of Social Media and Mobile Devices: Analysis of Advantages and Concerns

Australian College of Mental Health Nursing 41st International Mental Health Nursing Conference – ‘Mental Health Nurses: shifting culture, leading change’

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