Social Media and Networks

Communication Research

Daniel Martí
Master de Investtigación en Comunicación
Universidade de Vigo
October, 2010
Network:
http://redesocial.uvigo.es/pg/groups/11737/comunicadors/
Weblog:
http://infovis.lacoctelera.net/
 I. Our Networked
Informational Competence

I. Private focus of social networks:

our networked information environment (Monday)
II. Scholar Searching Presentations (e-odp)
III. Content analysis of social tagging (Wednesday)
IV. Agents and reputation evaluation (Tuesda)
IV. Discussion sessions and presentations
COMUNICADORS group in Rede Social Uvigo
 Index

➲ Overview
➲ “Personal” Information Environment
➲ Long-term Communication Research Goals
➲ The Private Situation
➲ Crossroads
➲ Potential Alternatives
➲ Recommendation
 Overview

➲ How to increase social networking in research

groups and projects ?
➲ Today: Informational Main Tools
➲ Next: Contents and Agents Analysis (next
session)
➲ Final: Etnographic discours of communities
communication (collaborative?)
 “Personal” Information Environment

NEWS VOTES COMMENTS P LUS

MEDIA
WEBS
➲ Twitter & Trends
BLOGS
NETWORKS
➲ Innovation alerts
➲ Mobile apps
➲ Cool

➲ Presentations ➲ Reputation Monitor

➲ Grey papers, pdf ➲ Benchmarks
➲ Academic white ➲ Competitors
papers, pdf ➲ Legislators
➲ Theory books
 SWOT (DAFO)

➲ Informal Learning ➲ Innovation

➲ Collective Knowledge ➲ Trends
(¿Wisdom?) ➲ Opportunities

➲ Informational ➲ Labs & Tanks

Routines ➲ Competitive
➲ Group / Scholar Intelligence
practices ➲ Classic Degrees
 Long-term Communication
Research Goals

➲ CMS selection: data & documents managing

➲ Collaborative construction of Information:
sources and networks
➲ Research Streaming (group or individual open
access)
➲ Social publishing & reviewing
➲ Collective and Open Research (creative
commons licenses... Lifelong Learning)
 The Private Situation

➲ Search tools options

➲ Data and documents complexity: source,
primary?
➲ Personal and collective resources selection
➲ Information retrieval with poor analysis
➲ Without agents and stakeholders reputation or
reliability evaluation
 Crossroads

➲ Institutionalized Foundations (pragma-crítical

traditions)
➲ National lobbies and reviewing boards
➲ Low digitization of journal and centers
➲ Slow Alternative Channeling and Social
Transfer
 Potential Alternatives

➲ Settin the time of adoption

➲ Starting point for new professional practices
➲ Broader dialog and extended collaborations
➲ No turning back
 Recommendation
➲ Prove different searching tools
➲ Select also groups and publics information
retrieval
➲ Find fellows using and recommending selected
resources
➲ Draw a summary with the expected results
➲ Visualize content in clouds, diagrams, charts
➲ Next session: statement of findings and benefits