Comments on: Social media, academics and the epistomology of knowledge http://corpblawg.ynada.com/2009/03/10/social-media-academics-and-the-epistomology-of-knowledge Cornelius Puschmann on computer-mediated discourse, linguistics, open access and other things that interest him. Now discontinued - see blog.ynada.com Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adeline http://corpblawg.ynada.com/2009/03/10/social-media-academics-and-the-epistomology-of-knowledge/comment-page-1#comment-91840 Adeline Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:17:18 +0000 http://corpblawg.ynada.com/?p=215#comment-91840 Thanks for your response, Cornelius. I started SL sometime last year, but my avatar was left dangling in its innocent unclothed white form for a bit, as I found it hard to navigate 'myself' or even to 'dress' myself up for that matter. There were just wayyy too many 'shops'- some free, some not - I tried viewing tutes on SL on youtube, but (at that time) not many video tutes were helpful. I even 'hung around' for a bit, hoping that a passing SL citizen would help me out - but no luck. So I gave up after a while. I think I need someone to 'be there' and help me 'navigate' my way through. I've never been a gaming junkie or a Habbo/SL fan or anything like that, but I find it fascinating how SL has impacted many areas of research, esp education! For me, I just wanna experience how is it like. Maybe one day we can meet on SL and you can 'show' around. heck -u can dress me up too, that should be fun. I watched a documentary once about SL (I'll tweet u the URl, if I can find it again) - and how astonishing it was to find that most Sl-ers were males using female avatar characters. Why? Simply because they seem to attract more 'SL' friends that way. Amusing. Thanks for your response, Cornelius. I started SL sometime last year, but my avatar was left dangling in its innocent unclothed white form for a bit, as I found it hard to navigate ‘myself’ or even to ‘dress’ myself up for that matter. There were just wayyy too many ‘shops’- some free, some not – I tried viewing tutes on SL on youtube, but (at that time) not many video tutes were helpful. I even ‘hung around’ for a bit, hoping that a passing SL citizen would help me out – but no luck. So I gave up after a while.

I think I need someone to ‘be there’ and help me ‘navigate’ my way through. I’ve never been a gaming junkie or a Habbo/SL fan or anything like that, but I find it fascinating how SL has impacted many areas of research, esp education! For me, I just wanna experience how is it like. Maybe one day we can meet on SL and you can ‘show’ around. heck -u can dress me up too, that should be fun.

I watched a documentary once about SL (I’ll tweet u the URl, if I can find it again) – and how astonishing it was to find that most Sl-ers were males using female avatar characters. Why? Simply because they seem to attract more ‘SL’ friends that way. Amusing.

]]> By: Cornelius http://corpblawg.ynada.com/2009/03/10/social-media-academics-and-the-epistomology-of-knowledge/comment-page-1#comment-91837 Cornelius Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:10:07 +0000 http://corpblawg.ynada.com/?p=215#comment-91837 Hey Adeline, thanks for your comment. The situation you describe regarding your colleagues is similar to what is going on here in Düsseldorf (or rather, not going on), with the caveat that I am the only person in the department who blogs or twitters. "I opine that Social media affects every area of marketing tenets (consumer behaviour, product management, branding, services marketing, etc.)." The question in my mind is when it will begin to significantly affect academia, which is still a world of its own in many ways. A lot needs to happen there, if only to avoid that today's professors lose touch with future generations of researchers by failing to adjust to changed medial habits. "Just out of curiosity - do you dabble in Second Life as well?" I have, but not recently and not for research purposes. Being a linguist, text-based stuff tends to be a bit more interesting to me (Twitter is my newest peeve, not just for personal use, but also as an object of study). But SL is definitely interesting in a variety of ways. Hey Adeline,

thanks for your comment. The situation you describe regarding your colleagues is similar to what is going on here in Düsseldorf (or rather, not going on), with the caveat that I am the only person in the department who blogs or twitters.

“I opine that Social media affects every area of marketing tenets (consumer behaviour, product management, branding, services marketing, etc.).”

The question in my mind is when it will begin to significantly affect academia, which is still a world of its own in many ways. A lot needs to happen there, if only to avoid that today’s professors lose touch with future generations of researchers by failing to adjust to changed medial habits.

“Just out of curiosity – do you dabble in Second Life as well?”

I have, but not recently and not for research purposes. Being a linguist, text-based stuff tends to be a bit more interesting to me (Twitter is my newest peeve, not just for personal use, but also as an object of study). But SL is definitely interesting in a variety of ways.

]]> By: Adeline http://corpblawg.ynada.com/2009/03/10/social-media-academics-and-the-epistomology-of-knowledge/comment-page-1#comment-91832 Adeline Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:58:54 +0000 http://corpblawg.ynada.com/?p=215#comment-91832 Hi Cornelius, You have clearly voiced out some of the concerns academics have when it comes to fully embracing Social media or Web 2.0 tools. Even in the dept of Marketing here in my uni, only a handful of the academics (less than 5) actively twitter - I shudder to guess how many even blog (probably even fewer). It's funny, really, when marketers should be 'out there' in order to keep abreast of this drastically evolving field. But again, I suspect that boils down to what your research interests are- either way, I opine that Social media affects every area of marketing tenets (consumer behaviour, product management, branding, services marketing, etc.). It's time for us to take a leap from the ivory tower and discover the world down/out there :) Just out of curiosity - do you dabble in Second Life as well? Hi Cornelius,

You have clearly voiced out some of the concerns academics have when it comes to fully embracing Social media or Web 2.0 tools. Even in the dept of Marketing here in my uni, only a handful of the academics (less than 5) actively twitter – I shudder to guess how many even blog (probably even fewer). It’s funny, really, when marketers should be ‘out there’ in order to keep abreast of this drastically evolving field. But again, I suspect that boils down to what your research interests are- either way, I opine that Social media affects every area of marketing tenets (consumer behaviour, product management, branding, services marketing, etc.).

It’s time for us to take a leap from the ivory tower and discover the world down/out there :)

Just out of curiosity – do you dabble in Second Life as well?

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