Social Media - A guide for researchers - ICT Digital Literacy

Social media:
A guide for researchers
Contents
1. Introduction: Why pick up this guide? Page 5
2. What are social media? Page 7
What social tools are available? Page 7
Consuming social media Page 9
Producing social media Page 10
Criticisms of social media Page 11
Answering the criticisms Page 12
3. What do social media mean for researchers? Page 15
Identification of knowledge Page 17
Creation of knowledge Page 18
Quality assurance of knowledge Page 19
Dissemination of knowledge Page 21
4. Social media tools for researchers Page 23
Social and professional networking tools Page 23
Social bookmarking Page 25
Tools for social-citation sharing Page 26
Blogging Page 27
Microblogging Page 28
Research and writing collaboration tools Page 29
Project management, meeting and collaboration tools Page 31
5. Managing information overload Page 35
Approaches to reading Page 35
Tools for filtering Page 36
Creating the right network Page 37
6. Final thoughts Page 40
7. Further reading Page 41
8. References Page 42
Web materials 1: Links and Resources Page 43
Web materials 2: Researcher case studies Page 43
9. Glossary of key terms Page 44
Links to all services mentioned in this guide are available on the RIN website at www.rin.ac.uk/social-media-guide