Tag: academia.edu
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Academia.edu and Self-Branding
Last week I was invited to give a talk at UCSB Library. Underneath you can find a transcript of my talk and a selection of my slides. Academia.edu & Self-Branding: The Metricisation of Scholars and Scholarly Networks Today I will be discussing two topics which are directly related: the growing use by academics of commercial…
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During our time at the Triangle SCI Institute 2016 in Chapel Hill, our team (consisting of Samuel Moore, Sherri Barnes, Donna Lanclos, Stuart Lawson, Eileen Joy and Janneke Adema) primarily came together with a strong motivation to think through what a not-for-profit and non-platform based alternative to social researching sites such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate…
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Culture Machine Liquid Books, Volume 9: Really, We’re Helping To Build This . . . Business: The Academia.edu Files
Image Credit: CC-BY: Linda N. from Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22748341@N00/361025310/ We are pleased to announce Volume 9 in the Culture Machine Liquid Book Series, published by Open Humanities Press: Really, We’re Helping To Build This . . . Business: The Academia.edu Files. This book can be accessed here: http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/w/page/106236504/The%20Academia_edu%20Files Really, We’re Helping To Build This . .…
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Don’t Give Your Labour To Academia.edu, Use It To Strengthen The Academic Commons
At the end of last year Times Higher Education invited me to provide an opinion piece on academic social networking sites such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate, and to reflect on the ‘Why are we not boycotting Academia.edu?‘ event the Centre for Disruptive Media organised last December, featuring Pascal Aventurier, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, David Parry and…
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Videos ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu’ Symposium Now Online
In view of the current discussion taking place over Academia.edu’s introduction of an ‘article recommendation charge’, and the subsequent #DeleteAcademiaEdu hashtag, we thought you might be interested in this: Last month The Centre for Disruptive Media (http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/) at Coventry University organised a symposium on academic social networking platforms called ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?’ Chaired…
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Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?
With: Janneke Adema – Chair (Coventry University, UK) Pascal Aventurier (INRA, France) Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA/Coventry University, US) Gary Hall (Coventry University, UK) David Parry (Saint Joseph’s University, US) Registration: http://why-are-we-not-boycotting-academia-edu.eventbrite.co.uk Organised by The Centre for Disruptive Media: www.disruptivemedia.org.uk Schedule: 3:00-3:30: Registration tea/coffee 3:30-3:40: Introduction (Janneke Adema) 3:40-4:00: Pascal Aventurier…