Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Little Blue Birds of a (Disciplinary) Feather Flock Together
The success of academic research in reaching out beyond its own scientific community is a perennial concern, even more so following the rapid adoption of social media and the ability to easily transmit information to potentially millions of people. But is increased social media attention really indicative of “broader impact”? A new study suggests social media does not broaden scientific communication, but rather replicates and perpetuates pre-established disciplinary boundaries.
Common Rule Reform – A Botched Job
The rush to publish a revised Common Rule for federally funded human research in the United States has created a flawed regulatory regime, says Robert Dingwall., Time to tear the whole edifice down and start over, he suggests.
Book Review: Social Media for Academics
Reviewer Andy Tattersall welcomes ‘Social Media for Academics’ as a balanced and thoughtful guide for academics that outlines the wheres and whys of how to start with an online presence and how to avoid getting it wrong from the start.
Use Qualitative Methods In Mining the Data Gold Rush
Mylynn Felt, author of a popular paper on social media and the social sciences, hopes to see a growing blend of established qualitative techniques with newly emerging big data research methods in future social science work.
How Coca-Cola Uses Social Media to Promote Corporate Social Initiatives
What is the most effective way for companies to implement corporate social marketing (CSM)? In the Social Marketing Quarterly article “Examining Public Response to […]
Social Networking Sites as an Emerging Organizational Form
Because the landscape of the digital industry is always changing, its organizational structures have to be more malleable in form; the development […]
Pinterest as a Social Tool for the Classroom
As a social media site, Pinterest has long been used as a tool for sharing planning, brainstorming, and inspiration. The site has […]
Tweet All About It: Using Twitter as an Inexpensive Communication Tool
In recent years, social media has changed the way that companies and customers interact. For many companies, social media platforms like Facebook […]
