Tag: social media
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Establishing a lasting online academic presence
Establishing an online academic profile involves three levels of engagement: immediate visibility through social media, sustainable medium-impact contributions via personal websites, and enduring impact through research and innovative outputs. Building a strong online presence requires owning a personal website to share ideas across all levels, emphasising the importance of wide and open sharing.
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We don’t need global-level conversation platforms
Instead of more sessions on how to use Twitter to build community (a conversation that’s been going since Twitter launched), I would have liked to see more thoughtful and critical discussion around the use of social media for HPE at the AMEE conference. For example, this piece by Cal Newport, where he questions the idea…
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Using social media to build learning communities
I was in a session earlier where one participant asked about the inevitable disintegration of social media platforms, and how the #AcademicTwitter / #MedEd social media communities might respond. I thought it was a good question, although I was skeptical about much of the conversation that followed. The consensus seemed to be that social media…
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A thought on Meta’s Threads
https://startupy.substack.com/p/things-im-thinking-about-67f I think Zuckerberg will be able to build another money making machine with Threads. But alas, this is not the feel good internet I was looking for. More endless scrolling, chipping away at my capacity for concentration. More people incentivized to churn out loads of content to please an algorithm. More user-friendly sameness. More…
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‘Academic writing’ includes more than we think
https://patthomson.net/2023/07/10/academic-writing-its-a-lot/ When we talk about academic writing, as usually refer to papers, books, chapters and dissertations. However, there’s a lot more to academic writing than just these four.
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Where does value accrue?
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning, following a few links that started with a post from Inger Mewburn that caught my attention: The enshittification of academic social media. Telling academics they can achieve career success by using today’s algorithmic-driven platforms is like telling Millennials they could afford to buy a…
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I deleted my Twitter account
I deleted my Twitter account about a week ago, but I’ve waited a bit to see if I regretted the decision. There’s a 30-day cooling off period and I didn’t want to write this post, then realise that I’d made a mistake, and recover the account. But the fact is, I don’t miss it at…
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Playing around with Mastodon
I created a profile on Mastodon in 2019, but haven’t done anything with it. I’d check in every now and again to see how the platform was developing and, while I was always intrigued with the notion of an open source microblogging ecosystem, it never really captured my attention. So for a while now, it’s…
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On changing my opinions
I wouldn’t usually listen to an interview with Mark Zuckerberg but three things changed my mind: This particular interview was recommended by someone who’s opinion I value. Lex Fridman is an excellent interviewer and I generally enjoy the conversations he has with guests. I’ve recently come to question the narratives presented by mainstream media. The…
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Social media and performance art
When we go online, we are programmed to react to engagement triggers — likes, shares, retweets, hearts, and thumb-ups. Social and this addiction of audience have made us addicted to something even harder to give up once tasted: a constant feeling of self-importance.
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Learning communities and the problems that matter
Social media platforms are currently based on mass audience models that leverage network effects – you go there because that’s where everyone else is. But I don’t think that this mass audience model is useful anymore, especially if you’re interested in working on important problems. In this new model, users don’t want to connect with…
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier – review
His most dispiriting observations are those about what social media does to politics – biased, “not towards the left or right, but downwards”. If triggering emotions is the highest prize, and negative emotions are easier to trigger, how could social media not make you sad? If your consumption of content is tailored by near limitless…
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AI Can Now Identify Racist Code Words on Social Media
“We essentially gathered hateful tweets and used language processing to find the other terms that were associated with such messages… We learned these terms and used them as the bridge to new terms—as long as we have those words, we have a link to anything they can come up with.” This defeats attempts to conceal…
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PHT402 Ethics course: Developing an online professional identity
This post was written for the participants of the #pht402 Professional Ethics course. For many of our participants working online has been a new and interesting experience but for most it will probably won’t progress much more than that. This post is intended to highlight how the blogs that have been created as part of…
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Social media and professional identity: Part 4 (ResearchGate)
Over the past few months I’ve been working towards my final PhD submission, and so haven’t had much opportunity to continue my my series on using social media to develop a professional online identity. Now that I have at least a little bit of time again, I’m going to try and finish it up over…
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HELTASA conference – Day 1
Analysing the professional development of teaching and learning at UWC form a political ethics of care perspective (Bozalek) 5 elements of ethics of care: Attentiveness: Identifying that there is a need that should be met, understanding the needs of others. “Transmission-type” teaching means not being attentive to, nor caring about, students learning needs Responsibility: Acting…
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Social media and professional identity: Part 3 (Mendeley)
Academic social networks: Mendeley Everyone is familiar with Facebook and many people have heard of Google+ so I’m not going to spend much time reviewing them, other than to say that for me, neither of them is currently a big part of my own professional presence. I use Google+ a lot but in a personal…
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Social media and professional identity: Part 2 (blogs & microblogs)
Welcome to Part 2 of my series on using social media to create and develop an online professional identity. Here is the full list of topics that I’m going to cover: Part 1: Introduction to the internet and social media Part 2: Social media, online identity and engagement (blogs and microblogs) Part 3: Academic social…
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Social media and professional identity: Part 1 (Introduction)
As I mentioned a few days ago, I’m getting another article ready for the Clinical Teacher mobile app; Social media and Professional Identity. I’ve been working on it sporadically over the past few months and have finally sent it to the designer for laying it out and getting it ready for the app. I’ve been…
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Social networks and clinical education: presentation at SAAHE
My presentation at the SAAHE conference is a more in-depth look at the same project that I presented at the conference in 2010. The key points I wanted to make were that: Students struggle to develop practice knowledge because it is hidden from them i.e. they can’t “see” our thinking process as we reason our…