This Thursday 2nd May from 12.30-2.00pm I will be giving a seminar for the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR) on ‘The networked academic: social media and your research identity’. It is part of BISR’s ‘Developing Your Research Career’ seminar series, and will comprise both a (partial) survey of various social media platforms currently being … Continue Reading
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Social media as academic environments: how we think, do and say
When I first inaugurated this blog, way, way back in the salad days of early 2010, I had a fair range of ideas about why I was doing it. Partly, I thought, it would be a platform on which I could work through ideas, and perhaps tease out conceptual and theoretical questions that I was … Continue Reading
Environmental change and digital scholarship
I recently wrote about the Doing research amongst technologies workshop series I am co-organising, and for which I co-convened the opening workshop session. I also had a pleasure of attending the second of the series, convened by a colleague from my Open University days, Joe Smith, a consummate public scholar, both in the broadcast and … Continue Reading