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A scientist’s view toward
Social Media & Twitter
Craig R. McClain @DrCraigMc
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First Lesson: Have A Slide Like This
Craig R. McClain @DrCraigMc #dukescicomm
slide thanks to @ethanwhite
Deep Sea News
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Chief Editor DSN#deepsndeepseanews.com @deepseanews
scienceofthesouth.com
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Why Should I Even Give A Flying Flip?
More than half of the human race is under the age of 30,
they've never known life without the internet.
Guess how they feel about social media?
3 out of 4 Americans use social technology -Forrester, The Growth of Social Technology Adoption, 2008
All media is now social media
Technology is shifting the power away from
editors, the publishers, the establishment, the
media elite.
Now it's the people who are in control.
-Rupert Murdoch
If Facebook were a country it would be the most populated in the world
In Billions
Facebook 1.49 China 1.36 India 1.25 U.S. 0.32
http://news.yahoo.com/number-active-users-facebook-over-230449748.html
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/02/15/new-facebook-statistics-show-big-increase-in-content-sharing-local-business-pages/
Every minute:Facebook users share nearly 2.5 million pieces of content.
Twitter users tweet nearly 300,000 times. Instagram users post nearly 220,000 new photos.
YouTube users upload 72 hours of new video content
http://www.dailyillini.com/features/health_and_living/article_323b7fd8-966a-11e2-b435-001a4bcf6878.html
1/3 of women aged 18-34 check Facebook when they first wake up
...even before going to the bathroom
Of all the social media venues,why should scientists focus on Twitter?
1.Easy to start and use
2.Massive usage
3.Scientific community is already engaging
4.Clear benefits for scientists
316 million active users on Twitter
anatomy of a tweet
#hashtags
#rstats
#conferences
#hashtags
#molluscmonday #wormwednesday #fossilfriday#scicomm#icanhazpdf
#academia #highered #phdchat#figureclub#sciart
http://librarianbyday.tumblr.com/post/93243914600/10-must-have-academic-twitter-hashtags-for http://www.academiaobscura.com/essential-hashtags-for-academics/ http://sylvaindeville.net/2014/10/24/top-10-twitter-hashtags-for-scientists/
Assignment Check out a #hashtag. Tweet something to it.
Tweet something to #dukescicomm
economy of space
140 characters
Twitter Extenders
Shortening URLs
MT (modified tweets) and the quote tweet
Use MT and rewrite a RT to save words
Also HT for heard through or hat tip
MT (modified tweets) and the quote tweet
1.Don't Multi-ReTweet 2.Contractions 3.No More "And", & 4.Drop Pronouns: One of the easiest to lose is "that." So "the website that I love"
becomes "the website I love". 5.Omit Needless Words 6.Kill "I": You can make your tweets more declarative and shorter if you
occasionally drop the "I" 7.Turn Words into Numbers 8.Remove Extra Spaces: Twitter counts double spaces between words. 9.Drop the period 10.Use Word Shortcuts: "With" becomes "w/." "Love" becomes "Luv." 11.Drop Vowels: e.g. "classroom" into "classrm".
Assignment: Compose A Tweet #dukescicomm
The relationship between scientists and journalists has evolved in recent years with the advent of numerous sociocultural changes and drastic shifts within the media ecosystem. Media professionals have traditionally been the gatekeepers of scientific information, but new media technologies grant scientists more power than ever before to be proactive about their public communication. In this article, I provide an overview of the science–media relationship and scientists as public communicators. Specifically, I recount the relationship that has traditionally existed between scientists and media professionals, explain how this relationship has evolved over recent years, and highlight what I believe are some of the most salient and exciting areas for future research examining scientists' efforts to engage with the public.
Scientists, the Media, and the Public Communication of Science Anthony Dudo Sociology Compass http://goo.gl/9yNZKj
what do I tweet
Social media is a tool like a microscope. It can be used well and badly.
It can be used to do a lot of different things -Jon Eisen
•Eavesdropping: follow informa4ve people to get informa4on and learn
•Dialogue: exchange, discuss, and debate informa4on (Asking specific ques4ons?)
•Broadcast: used by news organiza4ons and businesses to inform audience about news or products/services, outreach
•Data collec4on: e.g fishermen using TwiJer to monitor fish popula4ons.
•Impromptu journalism: e.g. landing on Hudson river, Mumbai aJacks, Iran post-‐elec4on protests
•Mindcas4ng: following a single story or topic, with links, for a period of 4me, e.g. like my ongoing coverage of the #oilspill
“To do science, you have to know what’s going on in science. I found Twi9er…most useful for becoming informed of what other people are doing in science. By sharing comments, links, informaAon, and notes about new scienAfic developments with trusted sources I am be9er able to keep up with the vast amount of informaAon in my fields of interest. Social networks enable real-‐Ame highlighAng and ranking and tracking of what’s going on in the world of science.” -‐Jon Eisen
Inreach versus
Outreach
*
*Mr. T has nothing to do with this. I simply have always wanted to put a photo of Mr. T in a presentation.
followers and lists
How do I get followers
This is largely out or your control but….
1. Be patient 2. Follow people yourself 3. Engage people on Twitter 4. Tweet to popular hashtags 5. Tweet interesting content 6. Be famous (online or offline)
How do I find followers
1. Search for specific people and topics 2. Follow people under a relevant hashtag 3. Follow people who are following you
Lists
A list is a curated group of Twitter users. You can create your own lists or subscribe to lists created by others. Viewing a list timeline will show you a stream of Tweets from only the users
on that list.
Note: Lists are used for reading Tweets only. You cannot send or direct a Tweet to members of a list, for only those list
members to see.
https://support.twitter.com/articles/76460
Assignment Create A List
profiles
Profiles
Assignment Create/Update Your Profile
popularity and virality
Berger and Milkman (2012)
• The results indicate that posi4ve content is more viral than nega4ve content
• Virality is par4ally driven by physiological arousal.
• Content that evokes high-‐arousal posi4ve (awe) or nega4ve (anger or anxiety) emo4ons is more viral.
• Content that evokes low-‐arousal, or deac4va4ng, emo4ons (e.g., sadness) is less viral.
Whether things go viral is related to physiological arousal
Do not be too popular if you want to be seen as credible
Networks
managing the stream
Twitter is the equivalent of drinking out of firehose
Tweetdeck
Storify
https://storify.com/DrCraigMc/wood-fall
Assignment Download Tweetdeck
& Explore
tweets gone wrong and trolls
Subtweets & Trolls
subtweet: (on Twitter) a post that refers to a particular user without directly mentioning them, typically as a form of furtive mockery or criticism.
internet troll: a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion, often for their own amusement