your digital identity: social media & online presence
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RAFIA MIRZA@LIBRARIANRAFIADIGITAL HUMANITIES [email protected]
Your Digital Identity:
Social Media & Online Presence
COLA: Ph.D. and MFA Welcome Orientation
Friday, August 19, 2016
Social Media & Online Presence
• Social Media Explained• Manage your digital identity• Represent yourself online• Maintaining your rights
Note: Some images included under Fair Use, all original content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLAINED
Image via http://www.fredcavazza.net/
Image via Shannon at AddThis
Articles: • Getting started with Twitter • 10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics• ProfHacker: Tag Archives: Twitter• The Academic Advantages of Twitter
Conferences and #:• Virtual MLA• Conference Season Is Here. Don’t Stink at Twitter.
Discussions:• Defining terms: #altac• Introducing #critlib chats!• Twitter Directory for Higher Education
Conferences and #:• Virtual MLA & MLA twitter • Conference Season Is Here. Don’t Stink at Twitter.
Alt-MetricsWhat are Alt-metrics?
Image: Altmetrics: Using Big Data to Measure Scholarly Impact by Elaine Lasda Bergman
MANAGE YOUR DIGITAL IDENTITY
“These are episodes in which distinct social
worlds collide online, causing outpourings of
drama.”The Internet of Words
by Ted Striphas
Context Collapse
Image: Context Collapse via Glenn Zucman
how “context collapse” was coined: my [danah boyd] recollection
Privacy Settings
• How to Delete Yourself from the Internet • How to Manage Your Social Media Privacy Settings• Make Your Facebook Profile More Private in 6 Easy Steps
Disambiguation
REPRESENT YOURSELF ONLINE
There are a variety of platforms: “ResearchGate to locate peers (often in the sciences), Academia.edu to post work (often in the humanities and social sciences) and LinkedIn to search for jobs (in alt-ac fields).”
Platforms
Image: Online Communities, by Randall Munroe (xkcd) is lilicensed under CC-BY-NC.
Institutional Repositories:• RESEARCH COMMONS
Other Discipline or Topic related Repositories:• figshare• Mendeley• MyScienceWork• SSRN• HAL• arXiv• viXra• Quartzy• PLOS ONE• GITHUB
Digital Humanities on GitHub
Resume
Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics
Impact Challenge
• “Upgrade your professional visibility by conquering social media
• Boost your readership and citations by getting your work online
• Stay atop your field’s latest developments with automated alerts
• Lock in the key connectionswith colleagues that’ll boost your career
• and Dazzle evaluators with comprehensive tracking and reporting on your own impacts.”
Via ImpactStory
MAINTAINING YOUR RIGHTS
Poster Presentation:
Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan’s Research Commons Profile
Copyright & Author’s Rights
“The Author" by streetwrk.com is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0
Thesis and Dissertation Information
Dissertation
