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What comes after Evernote? @robertotoole talks about the Personal Research...
A podcast recorded with Robert O’Toole at a Digital Change GPP event earlier this year. Download: rtgpp.mp3 If you’re at Warwick and you’re interested in the P.R.E could you get in touch with me? We’ll...
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“Should I be conscious of the language I use on Twitter?”
Download: twitgpp.mp3 The panel (below) responds at this Digital Change GPP event earlier in the year. Charlotte Mathieson - English and Comparative Literary Studies. Robert O’Toole - Institute of...
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“What are the challenges involved in using social media in teaching?”
Download: studenttechgpp.mp3 The panel (below) responds at this Digital Change GPP event earlier in the year. Charlotte Mathieson - English and Comparative Literary Studies. Robert O’Toole - Institute...
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Social media and the Impact Agenda – what do you need to know?
An interview with Nadine Lewycky, Arts Impact Officer at the University of Warwick, recorded for the Digital Change GPP. Download: nadinegpp.mp3
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“What on earth will I tweet about?”: feeling comfortable with social media as...
Curious about social media but unsure where to start? This hour long webinar will explore the issues faced by academics when using social media to communicate online: Being clear about what your goals...
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Wikipedia for Researchers – Free Workshops at the British Library
Friday 16th November, 14:00-15:00, British Library Conference Centre, Eliot Room This 1 hour bite-size talk will provide an introduction to Wikipedia and its community. Andrew will introduce ways...
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Pretty much everything you need to get started on social media as an academic...
My getting started with social media bundle has pretty much every training resource I’ve ever produced in it. Some collections of other people’s stuff about Twitter, blogging and podcasting. All my...
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Do you find social media taking up too much of your time?
Do you find social media taking up too much of your time? If so then IFTTT could be incredibly useful for you. It allows different social media channels to be connected up using statements of the form...
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What is ‘academic blogging’?
This question has been on my mind a lot this week. Largely because it occurred to me that I have yet to encounter a non-trivial answer to it. Sure, it’s easy to say academic blogging is blogging by...
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CFP: The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for making-learning-creating-acting
(via AyeshaKazmi from the Occupy Boston protest) There is a name for those under- and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic. Para-academics mimic...
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Sociologists Outside of Academia (why in retrospect it was never very likely...
(via AyeshaKazmi from the Occupy Boston protest) Some thoughts for the Sociologists Outside of Academia panel discussion I’m taking part in on Wednesday at 4:30 at #BritSoc13 I felt slightly nervous...
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Academy 2.0? Outline of the emerging digital culture with #HigherEd
This is very rough. Much more so than I’d like it to be. But then how could it be otherwise when I’m finishing it 12 hours before the event? Nonetheless this is my first sketch at doing something which...
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Universities aren’t going to be successful in using social media for...
This interesting article in the Guardian Higher Ed reports on empirical data which supports something I’ve believed for quite some time: communications offices are, at least in some respects, ill...
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The Sociological Craft Project
In the appendix to Sociological Imagination, entitled On Intellectual Craftsmanship, C. Wright Mills advocates keeping a file or journal within which to record your ideas. He argues that doing so:...
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Getting started with social media – some thoughts for a talk I’m doing next week
I think social media is becoming increasingly integral to academic life & will only continue to be so – reasons include the increasing centrality of the digital in wider society, the impact...
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The Sociological Craft Project (#2)
I wrote last week about my interest in sociological craft and increasing preoccupation with the idea of creating a forum (probably as part of sociologicalimagination.org) within which accomplished...
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Seeing scholarly publishing with fresh eyes
A research student of mine was thinking about submitting his first paper to an academic journal. He casually asked how much he would be paid for his contribution, acknowledging it probably wouldn’t be...
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The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Sociologist
This wonderful phrase comes from Stephen Mugford who just forwarded me a letter he wrote some time ago complaining about the largely unacknowledged reinvention and rediscovery which can be seen in...
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Tacitly assuming that research participants exist in an environment insulated...
I just listened to an interesting lecture by Shane Blackman and wanted to get a thought down on paper (so to speak) while it was still fresh in my mind. He recounted a number of instances where...
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3 tips for managing institutional, project and group twitter feeds in #HigherEd
In the last few years I’ve jointly or solely managed a whole range of twitter feeds – including @sociowarwick, @bsatheory, @bsapgform, @bsadigitalsoc, @lsepoliticsblog, @bsarealism, @digital_change,...
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