Open Access and Social Media

Social Media and Free Open Access Medical Education: The Future of Medical and Nursing Education?

Social Media: A TOOL FOR OPEN INNOVATION

Despite the exponential rise of social media use in external stakeholder engagement, academic research and managerial practice have paid little attention to how it can be used for open innovation across the entire innovation funnel, spanning ideation, R&D, and commercialization. As a result, there is little understanding of how companies can organize for and implement social media for open inno...

Social Access Control for Social Media Using Shared Knowledge Questions

Managing privacy of online content is difficult. We present a simple social access control where sharers specify test questions of shared knowledge, such as “what is our school mascot,” instead of creating authenticated accounts and specifying explicit access control rules for all potential accessors. This demo will let attendees interact with our Facebook prototype. We will also explain prior ...

Social Media and the Emergence of Open-Source Geospatial Intelligence

The emergence of social media has provided the public with an effective and irrepressible real-time mechanism to broadcast information. The great popularity of platforms such as twitter and YouTube, and the substantial amount of content that is communicated through them are making social media an essential component of open-source intelligence. The information communicated through such feeds co...

Social Media, Open Science, and Data Science Are Inextricably Linked

Should scientists use social media? Why practice open science? What is data science? Ten years ago, these phrases hardly existed. Now they are ubiquitous. Here I argue that these phenomena are inextricably linked and reflect similar underlying social and technological transformations.