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'This book demystifies many of the social media practices. It is an indispensable guide for lecturers and students using social media in their studies and research. Megan Poore’s book covers all major social media types and guides students through carefully annotated examples. These are supported by a broad selection of strategies and clear easy-to-follow practical activities.
"People often ask me whether they should start a blog or twitter account. While I can bore for Australia on the topic, now I don't have to because Megan has written this great book. Buy it if you are interested in social media and wondering where to start. Definitely buy it if you are confused and even a little scared of the whole idea. Megan will explain all the benefits and give you some great tips to get you on the way to internet fame and fortune, researcher style."
'This is an extremely useful publication that fills several gaps in current scholarly teaching and research. Firstly it provides students with a rationale for, and a means of, managing their research tasks in transformative ways, using social media as learning, researching and communicating assets. In this domain, it is both a launching pad and a handbook, easy to engage with and helpful.
I can see this book being of immense value to a majority of students and teachers. It is practical, accessible, clearly written and direct.
The book is highly matched with the content of the educational concept and useful for my students.
index of the book is recommended to understand main, also peripheral knowledge about researching in social media. Easy to understand and read, well prepared.
A useful book to help encourage students to use social media in their research and broaden their range of texts. Well explained and with interesting and useful guidance, something I will be using very much now and in the future.
Very easy and informative for both teachers and students.
Very good book in this area where there are few accessible resources available for undergraduates. Used it to produce a basic handout on the topic in the hope that students who want to research in this way follow this up by reading the book.
Highly relevant as a text for all undergraduate students. Introduces social media to students and provides a basis for our Introductory study skills modules
This book provides an interesting introduction to the use of social media for studying and researching. Additional focus on social media related methodologies would, however, have improved its relivance for student researchers.
It just didn't suit my own purposes. I expected it to be a much more sophisticated analysis of research methodologies that utilise social media.
There are, however, a few valuable chapters (for students especially) about the relative strengths and weaknesses of internet research at large.
I would recommend this text to anyone wishing to complete research using Social Media.
A well written guide for students who are interested in engaging with social media for research purposes.
My students really enjoyed this book. They had not realised the amount of quality material (amongst the dross) that there is on the internet.
This textbook is good for use by dissertation students
Interesting and inspirational text, great for understanding and developing new teaching strategies and supporting students needs.
This book is a good supplementary text in order to help students understand the relevance of social media.
I really enjoyed this book! It starts from the basic what-is and how-to aspects of various social media formats and works up to how these can be used effectively for studying, researching and teaching. I read it first with my "lecturer's hat" on and got great hints, tips and ideas about how to integrate social media into teaching research methods. With my "researcher's hat" on, the book offered good advice about researching in the digital age. It is a very timely and welcome publication.
I was a bit suprised at the lack of mention of Pinterest (although inevitably difficult to keep up with new and emerging social media)
I also found that the book is trying to talk to two different audiences (students and researchers) and might have been more usefully split into two smaller (and more affordable!) books. Obviously there is some overlap, but not enough I feel.
Otherwise I thought the book was well written and pitched at a good level (not too patronising, full of good advice).
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