Social Media for Scientists Course

Curso de Redes Sociais para Cientistas [Social Media for Scientists]

WHAT IS IT?

Course Description

Members of the public are increasingly using online environments and specially social media platforms to ﬁnd information about science. It is vital that scientists and scientiﬁc institutions start using those platforms to disseminate and promote their research activities. This 2-day course guides students through the communication process on the web and the importance of properly managing their online identity inside and outside social media. Using different platforms (weblogs, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media), students are invited to practice, and learn with the practice of others, their own communication skills. Our approach encourages the contributions based on a more empirical analysis of the effective use of social media by scientists, aiming to inspire the students to reproduce the best practices on the field.

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SCIENTISTS COURSE SYLLABUS

WHO CAN APPLY?

PhD students at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
PhD holders working at NOVA (researchers, teachers, ...)

WHEN and WHERE?

There are no currently scheduled editions of this course.

LECTURERS AND EVALUATION

Course Coordinators

António Granado, Assistant Professor NOVA FCSH

Teachers

António Granado, Assistant Professor NOVA FCSH

Joana Lobo Antunes, Invited Assistant Professor NOVA FCSH

Sílvia Castro, Executive Director CMU Portugal Program

Assessment

Students will be evaluated for two different exercises:

1. The writing of a post in a specially created weblog on science issues;
2. The curation of a specific science issue, using one of the tools presented during the course.

Study Load (activities/number of hours)

Lectures - 8 h
Practical exercises - 8h
Reading/self-study - 12h

1 ECTS (2 days)

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the Curricular Unit the students will be able to:

Develop a balanced approach to reputation management on the Web;
Effectively use social media tools and maintain an appropriate online identity;
Create, optimize and promote their professional profiles online;
Communicate information and ideas effectively, using a variety of social media platforms;
Engage in the dissemination of their research activities using the Web and several social media tools.
Understand the importance of using social media for increasing the impact of their research (and their research institutions) and for progressing in their careers.