COLA: Ph.D. and MFA Welcome Orientation Friday, August 19, 2016

1. RAFIA MIRZA
@LIBRARIANRAFIA
DIGITAL HUMANITIES LIBRARIAN
RAFIA@UTA.EDU
Your Digital Identity:
Social Media & Online Presence
COLA: Ph.D. and MFA Welcome Orientation
Friday, August 19, 2016

2. Social Media & Online Presence
• Social Media Explained
• Manage your digital identity
• Represent yourself online
• Maintaining your rights
Note: Some images included under Fair Use, all original content licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

3. SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLAINED

4. Image via http://www.fredcavazza.net/

5. Image via Shannon at AddThis

6. Articles:
• Getting started with Twitter
• 10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics
• ProfHacker: Tag Archives: Twitter
• The Academic Advantages of Twitter
Conferences and #:
• Virtual MLA
• Conference Season Is Here. Don’t Stink at Twitter.
Discussions:
• Defining terms: #altac
• Introducing #critlib chats!

7. Conferences and #:
• Virtual MLA & MLA twitter
• Conference Season Is Here. Don’t Stink at Twitter.

8. Alt-Metrics
What are Alt-metrics?
Image: Altmetrics: Using Big Data to Measure Scholarly Impact by Elaine Lasda Bergman

9. MANAGE YOUR DIGITAL IDENTITY

10. “These are episodes in
which distinct social
worlds collide online,
causing outpourings of
drama.”
The Internet of Words
by Ted Striphas
Context Collapse
Image: Context Collapse via Glenn Zucman
how “context collapse” was coined: my
[danah boyd] recollection

11. Privacy Settings
• How to Delete Yourself from the Internet
• How to Manage Your Social Media Privacy Settings
• Make Your Facebook Profile More Private in 6 Easy Steps

12. Disambiguation

13. REPRESENT YOURSELF ONLINE

14. There are a variety of platforms:
“ResearchGate to locate peers
(often in the sciences),
Academia.edu to post work (often
in the humanities and social
sciences) and LinkedIn to search for
jobs (in alt-ac fields).”
Platforms
Image: Online Communities, by Randall Munroe (xkcd) is lilicensed under CC-BY-NC.
Institutional Repositories:
• RESEARCH COMMONS
Other Discipline or Topic related
Repositories:
• figshare
• Mendeley
• MyScienceWork
• SSRN
• HAL
• arXiv
• viXra
• Quartzy
• PLOS ONE
• GITHUB

15. Digital Humanities on GitHub

16. Digital Humanities on Academia.edu

17. Resume
Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics

18. Impact Challenge
• “Upgrade your professional
visibility by conquering
social media
• Boost your readership and
citations by getting your
work online
• Stay atop your field’s latest
developments with
automated alerts
• Lock in the key connections
with colleagues that’ll
boost your career
• and Dazzle evaluators with
comprehensive tracking
and reporting on your own
impacts.”
Via ImpactStory

19. MAINTAINING YOUR RIGHTS

20. Poster Presentation:
Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan’s Research Commons Profile

21. Copyright & Author’s Rights
“The Author" by streetwrk.com is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

22. Thesis and Dissertation Information
Dissertation

23. QUESTIONS?
Rafia Mirza
@librarianrafia
Digital Humanities Librarian
rafia@uta.edu