OAI10 - CERN - UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication

Session

Plenary 5

P5

Jun 23, 2017, 9:00 AM

University of Geneva

Conveners

Plenary 5: Social Media as a research data resource

• Josh Brown (CERN)

Description

This session explores some of the issues raised by social media for open research, looking at such topics as: Extracting open data from closed systems; preservation and replication of studies based on dynamic data sets; the use of social media as a tool for opening up science; the ethical implications of research using social media data; social media data infiltrating research evaluation and analysis (altmetrics etc.) and the implications for researcher behaviour.

20. Social media session : Ethical Challenges of Social Media Data: Insights from Academia and Industry

Dr Peter Bath, Mr Wasim Ahmed

6/23/17, 9:00 AM

Social media data provide online spaces where people can share their thoughts, opinions and feelings on almost any aspect of life. They may also act as important communication tools in disaster situations to be utilised by the public, and emergency services. However, there are a number of ethical issues around the openness of social media data, and how much of social media data can be accessed...

21. Social media session : The ethical and practical challenges of using social media data in research

Mrs Anne Alexander

6/23/17, 9:30 AM

What ethical challenges does the pervasive use of social media platforms for personal and public communication in many societies pose for researchers? How do the challenges of doing research 'in' a social-media platform overlap with those posed by research 'on' social media platforms? Focusing on case studies drawn from the study of social movements in online environments, I will argue that a...

22. Social media session : Social media metrics as a source of understanding scientific communication : descriptive and evaluative possibilities

Dr Rodrigo Costas

6/23/17, 10:00 AM

The ‘explosion’ of tracking tools that have accompanied the surge of web based information instruments has also open the possibility of measuring how new research publications are ‘read’, tweeted, shared, commented, discussed, rated, liked, etc. in an online, open and dynamic environment. All these online events leave ‘traces’ around the access, appraisal and use of scientific publications,...