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Page 1: Use of Social Media in Mathematical Researchpeople.math.sfu.ca/~stockie/cfdgroup/socialmedia.pdf · 2013. 7. 23. · What are social media? Making use of social media in research

What are social media? Making use of social media in research Other uses of social media

Use of Social Media in Mathematical Research

John Stockie

Department of MathematicsSimon Fraser University

http://www.math.sfu.ca/∼stockie

Computational Fluid Dynamics Research Group

July 22, 2013

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 1/20

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What are social media? Making use of social media in research Other uses of social media

Outline

1 What are social media?

2 Making use of social media in research

3 Other uses of social media

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 2/20

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What are social media? Making use of social media in research Other uses of social media

Outline

1 What are social media?

2 Making use of social media in research

3 Other uses of social media

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 3/20

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What are social media? Making use of social media in research Other uses of social media

Old-fashioned networking = “scientific socializing”

Attending and organizing conferences and minisymposia

Institute

Inviting and visiting scientists

Serving on committees for societies, granting councils, etc.

E-mail

A lot of this might be called “schmoozing”. This is not what I’mreferring to.

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 4/20

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What are social media? Making use of social media in research Other uses of social media

Examples of social media

Email: “like letters, just faster”

Blog: = web log, a medium for web publishing, no official peerreview (WordPress.com)

Twitter: micro-blogging, e.g. conference hash-tags

YouTube, Vimeo: videos of research results

GitHub: sharing and collaborating on source code

arXiv: preprint sharing community (math, CS, physics)

Mendeley: sharing research libraries

Polymath project: on-line collaborative mathematical research

Stack Exchange, MathOverflow: Q&A forums

LinkedIn, ResearchGate, Academia.edu: academic communities

Google Scholar profile

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 5/20

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Context

Many many recent articles on the importance of outreach, societalengagement, social media, etc.

Amanda Alampi (NYU)

“One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that social mediais not just marketing for academic work. Social media platforms caninform every step of the research process: helping faculty get a pulseon movement in their industry, providing feedback during researchand then assisting in the promotion of the published work.”

SFU’s “engaged” vision is something many other universities areechoing

Granting agencies stress public outreach through programs, prizes,and some grant application requirements (e.g., NSERCPromoScience)

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 6/20

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What are social media? Making use of social media in research Other uses of social media

Outline

1 What are social media?

2 Making use of social media in research

3 Other uses of social media

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 7/20

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What are social media? Making use of social media in research Other uses of social media

Main activities of an academic researcher

Research:

Reading and collectingThinking and reflectingExperimenting, recording and synthesizingWriting and publishingSharing, networking and collaborating

Teaching:

Undergraduate and graduate classes

Administration:

University committeesSociety workPeer review for journals and granting councilsPublic outreach

Places where social media can help

[Adapted from Rene Schneider and Jasmin Hugi, Geneva]

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 8/20

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What are social media? Making use of social media in research Other uses of social media

Main activities of an academic researcher

Research:

Reading and collectingThinking and reflectingExperimenting, recording and synthesizingWriting and publishingSharing, networking and collaborating

Teaching:

Undergraduate and graduate classes

Administration:

University committeesSociety workPeer review for journals and granting councilsPublic outreach

Places where social media can help

[Adapted from Rene Schneider and Jasmin Hugi, Geneva]

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 8/20

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What are social media? Making use of social media in research Other uses of social media

Example: Publicizing/promoting your research

Downloads of a journal paper as a function of tweets

[Source: K. Puustinen and R. Edwards, London School of Economics, 2012]

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 9/20

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What are social media? Making use of social media in research Other uses of social media

Where to start?

Step #1: increase your visibilityCreate a good web pageGet a Google Scholar profile, ResearcherID account, and keep themup to date

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 10/20

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Where to start?

Step #2: get (and stay) informed

Follow at least a couple of blogs regularly, and maybe even startyour own blog

Go to special sessions at society meetings on social media

Talk to your colleagues about social media

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 11/20

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Societies

SIAM is fairly active in social media:

Twitter hash tags for every conference (#SIAMAN13)

Blogs

Minisymposium in San Diego (July 2013) on “Establishing aprofessional presence in the online world: Unraveling the mysteries ofsocial media and more” with

Tamara Kolda (Sandia): “Maintaining an online publication list”David Gleich (Purdue): “Tools for social media”Nick Higham (Manchester): “Blogging and tweeting formathematicians”Karthika Muthukumaraswamy (SIAM): “On the verge of a SIAMcommunity blog”

[Source: http://nickhigham.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/]

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 12/20

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Where to Post My Publication List?

July 11, 2013 Kolda - SIAM Annual 19

10 free minutes?

Create a Google Scholar profile

Yes

Last homepage update?

No

Plead the 5th

Just last week

Create Your Own Publication Page

Want to post final version?

Love lots of

emails?

Join ResearchGate

Looking for 1st job?

Your list is still short - post on

LinkedIn

Want to share your preprints

with the world?

Create a MS Academic Search

profile

3 free minutes?

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Of course!

Tammy Kolda

[email protected]

Post on arXiv

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 13/20

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Why should a scientist blog?

To right the wrongs of the mainstream media and shed light onbreaking news

Inform and inspire the public

Disseminate research results

Find collaborators

Report on preliminary results, “test out” your ideas before publishing

[Source: Muthukumaraswamy]

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 14/20

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What makes a good blog?

Have a theme

Express opinions (or not)

Be unique

Provide useful information

Be controversial (?)

Post regularly

Keep posts short and interesting (informal)

[Source: Higham]

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 15/20

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Blogs that I follow

Terence Tao (UCLA): hardcore mathematics

Nick Higham (Manchester): numerical analysis, math software, LATEX

SIAM Connect: applied math news in 5 separate blogs

Nassif Ghoussoub (UBC): Canadian science policy

Matt Might (Utah): programming, computer science, cool stuff

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 16/20

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Outline

1 What are social media?

2 Making use of social media in research

3 Other uses of social media

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 17/20

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Social Media in Teaching and Education

A totally separate issue is use of social media use in education . . .

ETNA (Enhanced Training Needs Analysis) Survey, 2012

Concludes that a careful and appropriate use of social media canenhance (but not necessarily improve) the quality of the learningexperience.

YouTube is by far the most popular tool, while Facebook andTwitter lag well behind.

There is a strong need for training in the use of social media.

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 18/20

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Related issues

Crowd-funding: requires marketing, customer development, “swag”,. . . .

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 19/20

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Closing words

With all of that said . . .

Social Media in Mathematical Research John Stockie – CFD Research Group, SFU 20/20