The researcher of the future…makes the most of social media
The researcher of the future…makes the most of social media
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未来的研究人员……充分利用社交媒体
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10.1016/s0140-6736(13)60447-x
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2013
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Sophie K. Scott
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社交媒体指的是各种各样的在线平台，人们可以在其中进行互动，从在亚马逊上提供在线评论到更新维基百科页面上的信息。社交媒体的核心是用户生成内容的概念，这意味着作为用户，我们不仅仅是吸收在线信息，而是积极为其做出贡献。作为一名研究人员，我发现社交媒体在许多不同的方面都非常有用，它使我能够让人们参与我的研究，并参与更多的公共讨论。对我来说，Twitter一直是这些活动的最佳媒介。Twitter是一个微博网站，用户在这里发布被称为tweet的短信息(即不超过140个字符)。超过5亿注册推特用户每天发送近3.5亿条推文。Twitter可以通过网站、智能手机上的应用程序或手机上的短信(短信)访问。任何人都可以阅读已经发布的推文，但你需要注册才能发布推文。对我来说，推特的美妙之处在于，推文可以是评论、照片或网页和视频的链接。此外，除非推文是保密的，否则它们是公开的、可搜索的--例如，它们可以被谷歌等搜索引擎找到。用户可以通过在他们的推文中加入标签，即以#符号开头的短语(例如，#NeuroScience)来帮助聚焦搜索：点击标签的人可以立即找到所有涉及这个话题的推文，对它们进行回复，或者转发它们(即转发它们)。推特使用“加入对话”的标签，和对话一样，人们推文的确切内容和人类的兴趣一样广泛和多变：许多用户在外出时讨论电视直播节目(例如，新闻之夜)，节目制作人经常通过建议这样的标签来鼓励这一点；其他人将推特用作讲笑话或分享新闻的方式。作为一名科学家，我发现Twitter为我工作的许多不同方面提供了一个极好的、灵活的论坛。Twitter是一个出色的论坛，
Social media refers to a wide variety of online platforms within which people can interact, from providing online reviews on Amazon to updating information on Wikipedia pages. At the heart of social media lies the idea of user-generated content, with the implication that we as users don’t simply absorb online information, but actively contribute to it. As a researcher, I have found social media to be extremely useful in a number of different ways, and it has enabled me to both engage people in my research and to get involved in more public discussions. For me, Twitter has been the best medium for these activities. Twitter is a micro-blogging site, where users post short bursts of information (ie, under 140 characters) known as tweets. There are over 500 million registered Twitter users sending approaching 350 million tweets daily. Twitter can be accessed via the website, apps on smart phones, or SMS (text) messages on mobile phones. Anyone can read tweets that have been posted, but you need to be registered to post tweets.For me, the beauty of Twitter is that tweets can be comments photos or links to webpages and videos. Furthermore, unless tweets are kept private, they are public and searchable—for example, they can be found by search engines like Google. Users can help focus searches by including hashtags, phrases starting with a# sign (eg,# neuroscience), in their tweets: people clicking on the hashtag can immediately find all the tweets referring to this topic, reply to them, or retweet them (ie, repost them). Twitter uses the tag “join the conversation”, and like conversations, the precise content of people’s tweets is as wide and as variable as any human interest: many users discuss live television programmes as they go out (eg, Newsnight) and the programme makers often encourage this by suggesting such hashtags; others use Twitter as a way of telling jokes or sharing news. As a scientist, I find that Twitter provides an excellent and flexible forum for many different facets of my work. Twitter is an outstanding forum for