For what reasons do academics follow one another on Twitter? Robert Jäschke, Stephanie B. Linek and Christian P. Hoffmann analysed the Twitter activity of computer scientists and found that while the quality of information provided by a Twitter account is a key motive for following academic colleagues, there is also evidence of a career planning motive. As well as there being reciprocal following between users of the same academic status (except, remarkably, between PhD researchers), a form of strategic politeness can be observed whereby users follow those of higher academic status without necessarily being followed back. The emerging academic public sphere facilitated by Twitter is largely shaped by dynamics and hierarchies all too familiar to researchers struggling to plot their careers in academia.
“All these papers were deliberately bad. They were created with the purpose of exposing exploitative publishing practices. That is, the works collected here were sting operations on predatory journals.” So says the introduction to the book Stinging the Predators: A collection of papers that should never have been published, assembled by Zen Faulkes.
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, provides free data and analysis on the social
Microsoft Research collaborates with computer scientists at academic and scientific institutions to promote advances in computing technologies and research.
This project brings together OII research fellows and doctoral students to shed light on the incorporation of new users and information into the Wikipedia community.
Y. Wang, E. Zhai, J. Hu, und Z. Chen. Proceedings of the seventh International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 6, Seite 2777--2781. IEEE, (August 2010)
Q. He, D. Kifer, J. Pei, P. Mitra, und C. Giles. Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining, Seite 755--764. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2011)
S. Bethard, und D. Jurafsky. Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, Seite 609--618. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2010)
T. Strohman, W. Croft, und D. Jensen. Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Seite 705--706. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2007)
S. Lawrence, K. Bollacker, und C. Giles. Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Information and knowledge management, Seite 139--146. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (1999)