This is your indispensable guide to navigating the rise of generative AI as an academic. It thoughtfully explores rapidly evolving AI capabilities reshaping higher education, examining challenges and ethical dilemmas across the sector. It provides useful strategies for using generative AI in your scholarly work while upholding professional standards. This practical guidance addresses four core areas of academic work: Thinking: How to use generative AI to augment individual and collaborative scholarly thinking that can assist in developing novel ideas and advancing impactful projects Collaborating: Explore how generative AI can be used as a research assistant, coordinating teams and enhancing scholarly cooperation Communicating: Cautioning against over-reliance, examine how generative AI can relieve communication burdens while maintaining professionalism and etiquette Engaging: thoughtful and practical frameworks are offered for using these developments to support online engagement without sacrificing scholarly principles Mark Carrigan is a digital sociologist, author and Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester.
This is your indispensable guide to navigating the rise of generative AI as an academic. It thoughtfully explores rapidly evolving AI capabilities reshaping higher education, examining challenges and ethical dilemmas across the sector. It provides useful strategies for using generative AI in your scholarly work while upholding professional standards. This practical guidance addresses four core areas of academic work: Thinking: How to use generative AI to augment individual and collaborative scholarly thinking that can assist in developing novel ideas and advancing impactful projects Collaborating: Explore how generative AI can be used as a research assistant, coordinating teams and enhancing scholarly cooperation Communicating: Cautioning against over-reliance, examine how generative AI can relieve communication burdens while maintaining professionalism and etiquette Engaging: thoughtful and practical frameworks are offered for using these developments to support online engagement without sacrificing scholarly principles Mark Carrigan is a digital sociologist, author and Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester.
Social media has become an inescapable part of academic life. It has the power to transform scholarly communication and offers new opportunities to publish and publicise your work, to network in your discipline and beyond and to engage the public. However, to do so successfully requires a careful understanding of best practice, the risks, rewards and what it can mean to put your professional identity online. Inside you'll find practical guidance and thoughtful insight on how to approach the opportunities and challenges that social media presents in ways that can be satisfying and sustainable as an academic. The guide has been updated throughout to reflect changes in social media and digital thinking since the last edition, including: The dark side of social media - from Trump to harassment Emerging forms of multimedia engagement - and how to use to your advantage Auditing your online identity - the why and how Taking time out - how to do a social media sabbatical. Visit Mark's blog for more insights and discussion on social media academic practice.
Social media has become an inescapable part of academic life. It has the power to transform scholarly communication and offers new opportunities to publish and publicise your work, to network in your discipline and beyond and to engage the public. However, to do so successfully requires a careful understanding of best practice, the risks, rewards and what it can mean to put your professional identity online. Inside you'll find practical guidance and thoughtful insight on how to approach the opportunities and challenges that social media presents in ways that can be satisfying and sustainable as an academic. The guide has been updated throughout to reflect changes in social media and digital thinking since the last edition, including: The dark side of social media - from Trump to harassment Emerging forms of multimedia engagement - and how to use to your advantage Auditing your online identity - the why and how Taking time out - how to do a social media sabbatical. Visit Mark's blog for more insights and discussion on social media academic practice.
