Share Paper: Faculty Productivity in the 21st Century: Using Social Media and Network Analysis to Generate and Illustrate Impact

  1. Abbie Brown, East Carolina University, United States
  2. John Cowan, Northern Illinois University, United States
  3. Tim Green, California State University, Fullerton, United States
Tuesday, March 22 10:15-10:45 AM Scarbrough 3

Abstract: The authors engaged in a multi-year study on post-secondary faculty use of social media and the reporting and assessment of academic productivity. The presentation includes a review of the current literature related to faculty productivity, social and scholarly impact, and social network analysis; a case study of two of the authors’ use of social media for academic purposes; and the results of social network analysis procedures applied to document a single scholar’s productivity and impact. The analysis results include graphical illustrations of impact that a scholar might be use as part of an annual report documenting his/her professional activity. The ...