Barriers and motivations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nNext came the cut-out paper snakes (and ladders, of course). We asked participants to think about the barriers (snakes) and about the motivations (ladders) they perceive\u00a0for using social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some interesting comments emerged: social media was seen as quite time-consuming, both in terms of time to create content and time to filter incoming content; participants were also unsure of the benefits of using social media and the fear of posting something inappropriate. More positively, participants felt that, used well,\u00a0social media could enhance personal profiles; improve communication and knowledge-sharing; and get academics on the same wavelength as their students. It was very useful to have Wojtek with us, as he was able to hear\u00a0participants' comments and respond to them directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quite a lot covered in one short hour!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ah, the irony. A workshop on how researchers use social media that was conducted entirely through the medium of a board game and cut-out paper snakes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[10,12,20,61,29,102,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}