Twittering About Research: A Case Study of the World's First Twitter Poster Competition.

ABSTRACT: The Royal Society of Chemistry held, to our knowledge, the world's first Twitter conference at 9am on February 5 (th), 2015. The conference was a Twitter-only conference, allowing researchers to upload academic posters as tweets, replacing a physical meeting. This paper reports the details of the event and discusses the outcomes, such as the potential for the use of social media to enhance scientific communication at conferences. In particular, the present work argues that social media outlets such as Twitter broaden audiences, speed up communication, and force clearer and more concise descriptions of a researcher's work. The benefits of poster presentations are also discussed in terms of potential knowledge exchange and networking. This paper serves as a proof-of-concept approach for impr

SUBMITTER: Randviir EP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4706062 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature