Social Media Engine: Extending our Methodology into other Objects of Scholarship

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Meneses ◽  
Alyssa Arbuckle ◽  
Hector Lopez ◽  
Belaid Moa ◽  
Ray Siemens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Real Challenge

In this paper we describe our efforts towards building a framework that extends the functionality of an Open Access Repository by implementing processes that integrate the ongoing trends in social media into the context of a digital collection—while taking into account the potential of social media, the relevance of open infrastructures and the accessibility of open knowledge. We refer to these processes collectively as the Social Media Engine. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, we propose to challenge some of the preconceived notions of digital libraries by making repositories more dynamic; and second, by challenging this notion we want to promote public engagement and open scholarship. As a work in progress, we believe that a real challenge lies in emphasizing the connections between documents that can be treated as objects of study as well.

scholarly journals Aligning Social Media Indicators with the Documents in an Open Access Repository

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Meneses ◽  
Alyssa Arbuckle ◽  
Hector Lopez ◽  
Belaid Moa ◽  
Richard Furuta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Real Challenge

In this paper we describe our current efforts towards building a framework that extends the functionality of an Open Access Repository by implementing processes to incorporate the ongoing trends in social media into the context of a digital collection. We refer to these processes collectively as the Social Media Engine. The purpose of our framework is twofold: first, we propose to challenge some of the preconceived notions of digital libraries by making repositories more dynamic; and second, by challenging this notion we want to promote public engagement and open scholarship. As a work in progress, we believe that a real challenge lies in investigating the implications that these two points introduce within the context of the humanities.

Integrating the Social Media Engine with Large-scale Open Access Repositories: A Discussion

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Meneses
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social

The Social Media Engine relies on interactive computer-mediated technologies and the increased impact, readership, and alt-metrics present in open access repositories—while fostering public engagement, open social scholarship, and social knowledge creation by matching readers with publications. In this paper I focus on a discussion that explores the possibilities of integrating a search engine that ranks its results according to trends in social media with large-scale open access repositories. Ultimately, this discussion aims to explore the implications of creating tools to emphasize the connections between documents that can be treated as objects of study as well.

scholarly journals The Diorisis Ancient Greek Corpus

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Vatri ◽  
B. McGillivray
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Ambiguous Word ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Computer Programme ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Linguistic Analyses

The Diorisis Ancient Greek Corpus is a digital collection of ancient Greek texts (from Homer to the early fifth century ad) compiled for linguistic analyses, and specifically with the purpose of developing a computational model of semantic change in Ancient Greek. The corpus consists of 820 texts sourced from open access digital libraries. The texts have been automatically enriched with morphological information for each word. The automatic assignment of words to the correct dictionary entry (lemmatization) has been disambiguated with the implementation of a part-of-speech tagger (a computer programme that may select the part of speech to which an ambiguous word belongs).

scholarly journals Using, Citing and Publishing Scholarly Content in the Digital Age: Case Study of Humanities Researchers

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (1(105)) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
David Nicholas
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
International Study ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

PURPOSE: The research upon which this article is largely based comes from a year-long international study of trustworthiness in scholarly Communications in the digital age, Essentially, the main thrust of the project was to determine the impact of the digital transition and the new products it has ushered in, such as open access publications and the social media, on academic researchers’ scholarly practices. This paper focuses and reflects further on the disciplinary differences of scholarly researchers when it comes to using, citing and publishing and, especially, whether arts and humanities researchers are any different in the way they think and behave to their counterparts in the sciences and social sciences. APPROACH/METHODS: An international survey of over 3650 academic researchers examined how trustworthiness is determined when making decisions on scholarly reading, citing, and publishing in the digital age. The survey asked respondents whether or not they agreed with comments and ąuotes about scholarly behaviour obtained from pre-survey focus groups and interviews. Data from focus groups, interviews and the published literature are also used to explain further the results of the survey. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: In generał, it was found that traditional methods and criteria remain important across the board. That is, researchers have moved inexorably from a print-based system to a digital system, but have not significantly changed the way they decide what to trust, where to publish, what to cite or use. Social media outlets and (non-peer reviewed) open access publications are not fully trusted. However, there were some significant differences according to the discipline of the respondent and this papers focuses upon these differences by comparing the views and behaviour of arts and humanities researchers with those from other disciplines. The main findings were: a) journals and the metrics that surround them are clearly not so important to humanities scholars, but nevertheless still pretty important; b) humanities researchers take a lot more care about what they use and where content comes from; c) humanities researchers look slightly more favourably on the social media. Originality/value: As far as it is known this is the first comprehensive study of digital humanities researchers and their decisions on what they use and cite and where they choose to publish.

Art of the Constructive Academic Social Brag to Improve Competition and Performance for Social-Shared Teaching and Learning

2022 ◽  
pp. 316-336
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Image Sharing ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Content Sharing ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Sharing ◽  
And Performance

If social media is about the social brag and the pose, academic social media has dedicated platforms that enable such shares: learning content sharing platforms (educational channels on social video sharing sites and social image sharing sites, learning object referatories, digital libraries, slideshow sharing sites), research sharing sites, publications and review metrics platforms, social learning sites (MOOCs, LMSes), and others. The academic social brag does not have to be negative or offending; it can be designed and harnessed to improve competition and performance among peer academics (in their social sharing), given the reliance on learner/user numbers to justify the original creation and sharing. This work explores academic social bragging across various academic social sharing platforms, dimensions for how these are judged (positively or negatively), and ways to turn academic social brags into something constructive for social-shared teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Designing a Data Visualization Dashboard for Managing the Sustainability Communication of Healthcare Organizations on Facebook

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Conte ◽  
Pierluigi Vitale ◽  
Agostino Vollero ◽  
Alfonso Siano
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Interactive Communication ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Environments

Healthcare organizations are being increasingly requested to publicize their sustainability efforts on digital environments and social media, in part because previously passive patients are now becoming active customers. This paper investigates how leading healthcare organizations are using Facebook to communicate their sustainability, in terms of their focus on different components of the 3Ps (people, profit, planet) and interactive communication strategies used on social media. A content analysis was made of the Facebook posts (n = 6145) of healthcare organizations in the Forbes Global 2000 (2017 annual ranking) from 2015 to mid-2018. Our findings show that the social component of sustainability prevails over environmental and economic issues, although it does not seem to generate increased consumer engagement (in terms of users’ likes, comments, reactions, etc.). A data visualization dashboard was developed to help managers in benchmarking competitors and assessing how they can increase response rates and public engagement on social media, thus encouraging the active participation of users. The study also provides useful insights for communication managers in identifying how to use deliberative tools to develop consumer relationships on social media and aligning companies and consumers regarding shared sustainability themes.

scholarly journals The impact of open access on the medical literature: a review of current literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 85 (11-12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nana Turk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Citation Count ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Medical Articles ◽  
Citation Advantage

Background: the aim of the article is to conduct an overview of the impact of OA on the medical articles based on 3-part categorization.Methods: Data were identified by a search strategy with eight combinations of keywords (open access, citation impact, citation advantage, citation count, article download, article usage, social media attention, altmetrics) and searched in three different databases.Results: the analysis was conducted on 107 studies dealing with citations, downloads and social impact. Sixty-seven of them simply employed the counting citations to OA and non-OA articles; nineteen articles compared the downloads and citations counts; and twenty-one articles investigated the social impact of OA articles. Twenty-five articles investigated the citations, download counts, and social impact of medical articles.Conclusions: The studies investigating the citation impact mostly showed citation advantages. Those that employed citation and download counts of medical articles using randomized controlled trials showed that OA articles were downloaded significantly more frequently, but found no evidence of a citation advantage for open access articles. The citation advantage from open access might be caused by other factors. Results of the studies comparing the social media attention and citations/downloads of the medical articles are often diametrically opposed.

scholarly journals Blogging Identities on Israel/Palestine: Public Intellectuals and Their Audiences

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (01) ◽  
pp. 177-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mira Sucharov ◽  
Brent E. Sasley
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Academic Involvement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Literacy ◽  
Popular Writing

AbstractDrawing on our research and blogging on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we make three claims about the role of scholar-bloggers in the social media age. First, as scholar-bloggers with some degree of ethno-national attachments related to our area of expertise, we contend that we are well positioned to issue the kinds of critiques that may resonate more deeply due to the very subjectivity that some perceive as a liability. Second, through the melding of scholarly arguments with popular writing forms, scholar-bloggers are uniquely poised to be at the forefront of public engagement and political literacy both with social media publics and with students. Third, the subjectivity hazard is an intrinsic part of any type of research and writing, whether that writing is aimed at a scholarly audience or any other, and should not be used as an argument against academic involvement in social media. Ultimately, subjectivities of both consumers and producers can evolve through these highly interactive media, a dynamic that deserves further examination.

scholarly journals Open Access and Altmetrics in the pandemic age: Forescast analysis on COVID-19 literature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Torres-Salinas ◽  
Nicolas Robinson-Garcia ◽  
Pedro A. Castillo-Valdivieso
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Arima Models ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
To Receive

AbstractWe present an analysis on the uptake of open access on COVID-19 related literature as well as the social media attention they gather when compared with non OA papers. We use a dataset of publications curated by Dimensions and analyze articles and preprints. Our sample includes 11,686 publications of which 67.5% are openly accessible. OA publications tend to receive the largest share of social media attention as measured by the Altmetric Attention Score. 37.6% of OA publications are bronze, which means toll journals are providing free access. MedRxiv contributes to 36.3% of documents in repositories but papers in BiorXiv exhibit on average higher AAS. We predict the growth of COVID-19 literature in the following 30 days estimating ARIMA models for the overall publications set, OA vs. non OA and by location of the document (repository vs. journal). We estimate that COVID-19 publications will double in the next 20 days, but non OA publications will grow at a higher rate than OA publications. We conclude by discussing the implications of such findings on the dissemination and communication of research findings to mitigate the coronavirus outbreak.

Research on differential and interactive impact of China-led and US-led open-access articles

2021 ◽  
pp. 016555152199863
Author(s):  
Wei Mingkun ◽  
Quan Wei ◽  
Sadhana Misra ◽  
Russell Savage
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Alternative Metrics

With the development of Web 2.0, social media dialogue has been increasingly important within the world of open access (OA), striving for more user-generated content and ease of use. In this article, we analysed the impact of OA articles published by both Chinese and the American researchers using PLOS ONE. Papers published in the same year, using citation and social media metrics, were all used to analyse the correlation between the level of social media metrics and citation. Overall, the impact of OA articles published within the United States is higher than OA articles published in China. The results showed that citations and number of Mendeley readers have a significant correlation, which reflect the similar impact in evaluation of OA articles. However, most social media metrics did not have an obvious correlation with impact evaluation, which indicates the social media metrics are useful when paired with citations, but not irreplaceable to citations. Social media metrics appear to be a useful alternative metrics to accurately reflecting the impact of OA articles within the scientific community.

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