Dr Frances Ryan F.Ryan@napier.ac.uk
Lecturer
Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms
Ryan, F.; Hall, H.; Cruickshank, P.; Lawson, A.
Authors
H. Hall
Dr Peter Cruickshank P.Cruickshank@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Alistair Lawson A.Lawson@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Abstract
Introduction. The broad theme of this paper is the use of information to build, manage and evaluate personal reputations. It reports the findings of a study that considered the extent to which social media users replicate in online environments the established information practices of academics when they assess their peers. The three platforms considered are Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Method. A multi-step data collection process was implemented for this work. Forty-five UK-based social media users kept journals and took part in semi-structured interviews. Analysis. A qualitative analysis of the journal and diary data was undertaken using NVivo10. Information practices were analysed to considered the similarities or difference between social media practices and related practices deployed by academics related to citations.
Results. The findings expose the ways in which social media users build, manage, and evaluate personal reputations online may be aligned to the citation practices of academics.
Conclusion. This work shows where the similarities and differences exist between citation practices and related information practices on social media as related to personal reputations. Broadly, the findings of this research demonstrate that social media users do replicate in informal online environments the established information practices of academics.
Citation
Ryan, F., Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Lawson, A. (2019, June). Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms. Paper presented at Conceptions of Library and Information Science 10 (CoLIS10), Ljubjana, Slovenia
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (unpublished) |
---|---|
Conference Name | Conceptions of Library and Information Science 10 (CoLIS10) |
Conference Location | Ljubjana, Slovenia |
Start Date | Jun 16, 2019 |
End Date | Jun 19, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Nov 5, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Keywords | everyday life information seeking; social media; personal reputations |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2291293 |
Files
Build Manage And Evaluate Information Practices And Personal Reputations On Social Media Platforms
(312 Kb)
PDF
You might also like
The power of audio: presenting archives via podcasts
(2023)
Presentation / Conference
Selected poems: Lorna Lloyd
(2022)
Book
Capturing career information use in everyday life: introducing the CIEL conceptual framework
(2022)
Journal Article
The creative use of digitised archives: case study of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the War’ podcast series
(2022)
Presentation / Conference
Downloadable Citations
About Edinburgh Napier Research Repository
Administrator e-mail: repository@napier.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search