Here are the slides from my talk at the Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education in Toronto, June 16 2011. It examines how social media is changing the way scholars disseminate their research and raises questions about the way we evaluate academic authority. UPDATE: The LSE Impact blog published a post by me outlining the ideas in my Networked Scholar presentation. The Networked Scholar View more presentations from Alfred
PDF The report by Fleishman-Hillard into the Internet’s influence in seven countries reveals a paradox when it comes to social media. While more users are embracing social media, they are also concerned about sharing too much information. The 2010 Digital Influence Index Study found that more than half (53%) of the study’s respondents thought they were revealing too much online. Canadians were the most likely to express concerns about TMI. Yet,
There has been plenty of discussion about the role of Twitter during the Mumbai attacks. The stream of tweets were seen by some as evidence that Twitter is where news is breaking. This poses a dilemma for established news organisations that traditionally have been the ones to break news. But as Mindy McAdams notes, “breaking news — especially disasters and attacks in the middle of a city — will be
The head of the press watchdog in the UK has come up with an odd way to deal with the issue of trust online. Sir Christopher Meyer, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has called for a digital kitemark for news sites, because there is a “crying need to be able to distinguish between what is rubbish and what is quality, between what is fantasy and what reliable”. Sir
It has been a bad couple of days for the BBC, with its admission that several phone-in competitions were faked. The response in the press has been outrage, with headlines such as “They’re bear faced cheats” in The Sun, or The Daily Mail talking about “The shaming of the BBC“. There is no doubt that this is a serious issue and BBC producers were wrong to have deceived audiences. But