Social media in academia: How the Social Web is changing academic practice and becoming a new source for research data
- Katrin Weller
Katrin Weller is an information scientist at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne (Germany). From 2006 to 2012 she worked at the Department of Information Science at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. She is co-editor of
Twitter and Society (2014). Her research interests include interdisciplinary methods in social media studies, altmetrics and web science.GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the SocialSciences, Data Archive for the Social Sciences, Unter Sachsenhausen 6–8,D-50667 Köln, Germany, Phone: +49 221 47694 472
andMarkus StrohmaierMarkus Strohmaier is a Full Professor of Web-Science at the Faculty of Computer Science at University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany and Scientific Director of the Computational Social Science department at GESIS – the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany. His main research interests include web science, social and semantic computing, computational social science, networks and data mining.
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Computational SocialScience, Unter Sachsenhausen 6–8, D-50667 Köln, Germany
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Social media in academia: How the Social Web is changing academic practice and becoming a new source for research data
- Special Issue
- Tweets vs. Mendeley readers: How do these two social media metrics differ?
- Faculty and student interactions via Facebook: Policies, preferences, and practices
- How Science 2.0 will impact on scientific libraries
- Sifting the sand on the river bank: Social media as a source for research data
- Twitter data: What do they represent?
- Can electoral popularity be predicted using socially generated big data?
- Self-Portrayals of GI Junior Fellows
- Preface to the self-portrayals of the GI Junior Fellows
- Network analysis literacy, data analysis literacy, and socioinformatics
- Developing sociotechnical systems with special focus on quality
- Persönliches
- Heinz Zemanek zum Gedenken
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Social media in academia: How the Social Web is changing academic practice and becoming a new source for research data
- Special Issue
- Tweets vs. Mendeley readers: How do these two social media metrics differ?
- Faculty and student interactions via Facebook: Policies, preferences, and practices
- How Science 2.0 will impact on scientific libraries
- Sifting the sand on the river bank: Social media as a source for research data
- Twitter data: What do they represent?
- Can electoral popularity be predicted using socially generated big data?
- Self-Portrayals of GI Junior Fellows
- Preface to the self-portrayals of the GI Junior Fellows
- Network analysis literacy, data analysis literacy, and socioinformatics
- Developing sociotechnical systems with special focus on quality
- Persönliches
- Heinz Zemanek zum Gedenken
