Just recently my Twitter feed has been hi-jacked by a nasty little phenomena: restaurants re-tweeting positive messages from their patrons. Ok, it’s not a hangable crime and it’s certainly not harming anyone but it’s beginning to grate on me. Testimonials are all well and good but Twitter is not the place for them. It makes [...]
Entries in 'Social media'
RMM Briefing: Facebook Places
August 19th, 2010 by Shona Ghosh · No Comments
What is it?
Facebook Places is a (currently US-only) additional feature which allows Facebook Mobile users to check into locations. Sound familiar? Like Foursquare/Gowalla, you can signal your location, whether it’s at a bar, shop, building, wherever. A key difference between Places and Foursquare is that Facebook has a ready-built userbase in the millions. Places also [...]
How can social media become a cornerstone tool of academia?
August 13th, 2010 by Rob Meiklejohn · No Comments
This is the concluding post of our intern Rob Meiklejohn’s project researching the usage of social media platforms in academia.
Previously I’ve looked at some innovative small-scale uses of social media (here) and one rather disappointing attempt to translate these early successes into a single international social media platform (here). So far I’ve been forced me [...]
Must try harder? The problems of social media in academia
August 4th, 2010 by Rob Meiklejohn · 4 Comments
Post One: Broadcast and Collaboration
For a few years now there has been plenty of material knocking around detailing the uses of social media in academia; whether boasting about the trendy incorporation of Web 2.0 in teaching and research or deriding the hesitant approaches of institutions and academics when it comes to adopting the latest technologies. [...]
Films, buzz, and present choices in past tense (pt 3)
July 19th, 2010 by Mihaela · No Comments
This is the third and final in a series of posts looking at people’s decision making behaviours regarding cinema visits in the age of social media, compared with our behaviours ten years ago. You can read the first post in this series here and the second post here.
Following post 2 where I [...]