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[Myexperiment-discuss] Scientists use Social networking, but not PhD stu
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Duncan Hull |
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[Myexperiment-discuss] Scientists use Social networking, but not PhD students |
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Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:56:10 +0000 |
On Nov 5, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Paul Fisher wrote:
Might be of interest to some people (even if slightly behind the
times).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8342851.stm
Cameron strikes again!
See also
Next-gen PhDs fail to find Web 2.0's 'on-switch'
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=408942
It is counter-intuitive in the extreme, but young researchers are
failing to make use of so-called "emergent technology", such as Web
2.0 tools, to support their work. A three-year study by the British
Library, Researchers of Tomorrow, is tracking the research behaviour
of doctoral students born between 1982 and 1994 - dubbed "Generation
Y". The results are being compared with a wider analysis of the
behaviour of 6,500 doctoral students of all ages. Interim results,
released to Times Higher Education, show that only a small proportion
of those surveyed are using technology such as virtual-research
environments, social bookmarking, data and text mining, wikis, blogs
and RSS-feed alerts in their work. This contrasts with the fact that
many respondents professed to finding technological tools valuable.
Associated website:
http://www.researchersoftomorrow.net/
Full report:
http://explorationforchange.net/attachments/054_Summary%20Report%20Final.pdf
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Duncan Hull
The European Bioinformatics Institute
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~duncanh