Tag Archives for Social Media
Blogging/Microblogging for enhancing the research accessibility
Scholarly blogs and Microblogs such as Twitter are increasingly attracting attention as new channels of science communication. Blogs and microblogging services like Twitter get your research seen by more nonacademics than your peer reviewed papers will ever be. The importance … Continue reading
Facebook’s new Messenger Kids app could be good for digital literacy
Facebook is trialling a new Messenger Kids app in the United States. The standalone app is aimed at under-13s, who aren’t currently eligible for a normal Facebook account. Parents are responsible for setting up the account and approving any contacts … Continue reading
Students learn digital literacy in workshop
Students learned how to protect their personal information from data mining by companies such as Facebook and Snapchat during a Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation workshop. Read More
Open Access Research Via Collaborative Educational Blogging: A Case Study from Library & Information Science
This article charts the development of activities for online graduate students in library and information science. Project goals include helping students develop competencies in understanding open access publishing, synthesizing research in the field, and engaging in scholarly communication via collaborative … Continue reading
Facebook adding a feature to curb fake news
Facebook is working on a better algorithm to detect and reduce the spread of false news, including an upcoming feature that indicates how long a publication or post has been around, said the social media network’s head of News Feed, … Continue reading
Social Media Shaping e-Publishing and Academia
The main aim of this book is to present the current state of the art in the field of e-publishing and social media. The book discusses a relatively new research topic that will be useful to researchers in the area … Continue reading
Analysis of Social Media Influencers and Trends on Online and Mobile Learning
Although educational practitioners have adopted social media to their online or mobile communities, little attention has been paid to investigate the social media messages related to online or mobile learning. Read More