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Social media a survival tool in ‘publish or perish’ world: academic
Digital disruption has become a talking point for academics and their research. With the advent of social media in the last decade, the way information reaches us – and the way we keep ourselves abreast of the world – has evolved dramatically.
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I couldn’t agree more with what John says. The time from conduct of research to publication of research in peer-reviewed journals for example, is very long and often makes a late contribution to the field.
It is old news/work/scholarship. I find Twitter extremely useful to alert colleagues and other tweeps to projects and studies I am working on – if you link tweets to Academia papers that can improve citations and the impact and more crucially the influence of your work – especially for practitioners in my field of education. Important conversation.
Thank you. Twitter handle is @janehunter01