Doing Your Research Project: A Guide for First-time Researchers by Bell Judith

Author:Bell, Judith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Doing Your Research Project: A Guide for First-time Researchers
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 2014-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

Make sure your profile on social media sites presents a welcoming but professional image. Have your headshot taken by a photographer. Describe yourself as a researcher and, in a few words, describe what you are researching.

YouTube

YouTube is often visited to access humorous, embarrassing or innovative videos (see Blendtec (2010), for example, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko, if you would like a short break from your research!). However, there are also a huge number of videos on YouTube that are aimed at the professional researcher. For example, the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfxrrMVzXK0 (Arguadiola 2012) identifies the most important considerations when writing a literature review. When you find a video that is useful, you can ‘subscribe’ to that video, which makes it easy to find again. You will also be notified of new YouTube videos from that creator who is likely to produce videos on similar topics.

Summary

I hope this chapter has given you an overview of how you might use social media to let other researchers know who you are and what you are doing, to build contacts with fellow researchers and to help you to organize and structure your research. Social media is hugely powerful and you can harness some of that power to make you a more effective researcher and to save you time and expense, especially during data collection. Although the potential of social media is unarguable, as with all of your research activities you need to manage your time effectively – social media activity can be addictive and hours can slip by almost unnoticed. If you get it right, you will be able to counteract the isolation that many lone researchers face and be able to receive and give advice to other researchers.

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