{"id":6078,"date":"2023-12-18T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=6078"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:33:26","slug":"social-media-w2024","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/event\/social-media-w2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Social Media as an Academic"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social media is playing an increasingly important role in our culture and our professional lives, whether we like it or not. While it has its potential pitfalls, social media also provides space for the formation of academic and professional communities that can provide you with opportunities to share your research, sharpen your writing skills, network, and job hunt. In this workshop we will look at some basic principles you can follow in order to locate a social media \u201cecosystem\u201d that works for you, so that you can find opportunities for productive public engagement as a graduate student or postdoc.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learning outcomes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1) Consider the diversity of ways we can communicate through social media<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2) Learn different approaches for disseminating information on social media<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(3) Understand niche media ecosystems and the importance of \u201cnews pegs,\u201d the news cycle, and the \u201ctake cycle\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(4) Learn how to engage in risk management when it comes to public engagement, given the ugly side of social media<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Workshop leader(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Lafferty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please note:<\/strong> All graduate students are welcome. If you are a TA, this session counts toward voluntary paid training hours, provided that you are working as a TA in the term when the training takes place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Competencies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Career Management; Innovation &amp; Collaboration; Community Engagement; Communication; Digital Literacy<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PLEASE REGISTER BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[46,57,54],"cu_event_audience":[6],"class_list":["post-6078","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-centralized-event-list","cu_event_type-communications-and-engagement","cu_event_type-skill-streams","cu_event_audience-current-students"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2024-02-26T10:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2024-02-26T11:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6245,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6078\/revisions\/6245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=6078"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=6078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}