408 Gumberg Library
Presenters: Robert Behary, MLS, MBA, Systems Librarian and Julie Motyka, MLS, Reference Librarian
Abstract:
In this presentation, the impact of social media on academe will be explored. The presenters will describe ways in which scholars could use popular, freely available tools to join and create online communities and also provide examples of ways in which such communities can be used to provide opportunities for collaboration and continuing education. Additionally, the presenters will describe the increasing importance of social media tools in scholarship, particularly in terms of tracking trends in various fields of research and study, as well as in widening the scope of academic research and placing it into a global context. This will be a 90-minute presentation geared toward an audience of faculty and graduate students.
Objectives:
Participants will learn strategies for discovering other scholars with similar interests on social media sites.
Participants will learn how to raise their own visibility using social networking.
Participants will learn how to use microblogging to follow a scholarly conference
Participants will learn how social media is being incorporated into scholarly processes (including faculty promotion decisions)
