Presented at Research@Dept, in Leuven, B on 27 April 2015.

1. Social Media and Science
a wedding made in Heaven...
or in Hell?
27 April 2015, Research@Dept, Leuven, B
Erik Duval
Dept. Computerwetenschappen, KULeuven
http://erikduval.wordpress.com & @ErikDuval
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2. last 24 hrs…
email, facebook, twitter, google plus, …
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3. last 24 hrs…
email, facebook, twitter, google plus, …
academia.edu, ResearchGate, Mendeley, …
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4. what do you think about
when you think about
social media and science?
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5. recursion…
social media & this talk
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http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval

7. vertical for slides
(linkedin: jobs, youtube: video,
runkeeper: jogging, flickr: photos,
tripadvisor: hotels, spotify: music,
etc. etc. etc.)
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8. slides as
‘first order citizens’
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11. exposure
friction
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14. digital exhaust ➭ analytics
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19. what
if
you
had
this
kind
of
ver2cal
for
your
science?
publica2ons,
cita2ons,
call
for
papers,
vacancies,
call
for
proposals,
…
as
first
order
ci2zens
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20. ResearchGate
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27. academia.edu
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feature ..?

34. mendeley
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http://www.fastcompany.com/3042443/mendeley-elsevier-and-the-future-of-scholarly-publishing

41. more reference manager
with social sauce?
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42. also: twitter, Facebook
(not vertical, more reach)
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X. Shuai, A. Pepe, and J. Bollen. How the scientific community reacts to newly
submitted preprints: Article downloads, twitter mentions, and citations. PloS one,
7(11):e47523, 2012.

44. conference hash tags
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46. awareness streams
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTNrHT1YI34
G. Parra, J. Klerkx, and E. Duval. What should i read next?: awareness of relevant publications through a community of
practice. In CHI’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 2375–2376. ACM, 2013.

48. visualisation
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T. Nagel, E. Duval, and A. Vande Moere. Interactive exploration of geospatial network visualization. In CHI’12
Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 557–572. ACM, 2012.

50. discovery
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sites.google.com/site/kulmoreapp/
G. Parra, J. Klerkx, and E. Duval. What should i read next?: awareness of relevant publications through a community of
practice. In CHI’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 2375–2376. ACM, 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoWazEHvO0Y

52. crowdsourcing
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55. some issues…
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56. fragmentation
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57. 57 http://www.bouwkennisblog.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/social-media-2.png

58. where does work end
& life begin?
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60. how long before this?
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http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20150422_01643851
http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20150422_01643851

62. always on…
your own PR agency
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU

64. vanitas vanitatum…
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65. bit of heaven & hell…
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66. science is
inherently social
- or is it?
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69. ?
@ErikDuval
h?p://erikduval.wordpress.com
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