{"id":1687,"date":"2014-07-07T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T12:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:29","slug":"social-media-and-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/07\/07\/social-media-and-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media and universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Social Media: When Should the University Intervene?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/262774634_Student_use_of_social_media_when_should_the_university_intervene\">interesting article<\/a> from Australia currently available free of charge from the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management.\u00a0 Topics covered in the piece include are staff over-sensitive to criticism and can student websites be regulated.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/higher-education-news-for-libraries-and-librarians\">other full-text reports on education issues<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/library\/2014\/07\/03\/research-resources-on-the-selfie-a-global-phenomenon\/\"><strong>Selfie culture: <\/strong>see this blogs posting earlier this week for research links.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Ethics and Facebook: <\/strong>This week a study which involved the manipulation of news feeds on Facebook caused controversy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/consent-and-ethics-in-facebooks-emotional-manipulation-study-28596\">The Conversation<\/a> has a good discussion of the issues raised by Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/intranet\/researchAndDevelopment\/researchPolicy\/home.aspx\">universities<\/a> and funding bodies have their own ethics guidelines, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esrc.ac.uk\/about-esrc\/information\/research-ethics.aspx\">ESRC<\/a> for examples. A\u00a0good introduction for researchers is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsguidebook.ac.uk\/%20\">Ethics Guidebook<\/a>\u00a0and the social science research ethics pages <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/researchethics\/\">Lancaster University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media: When Should the University Intervene? An interesting article from Australia currently available free of charge from the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management.\u00a0 Topics covered in the piece include are staff over-sensitive to criticism and can student websites be regulated. See other full-text reports on education issues this week. Selfie culture: see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[241,71,78,82,145],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-media-and-communication","tag-media-and-communication","tag-new-media","tag-research","tag-social-media","tag-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}