By Farida Vis
Some of the Everyday Growing Cultures project team are also active on social media and when discussing anything relevant to the project we have used the hashtag on Twitter. We intend to use social media more in the second half of the project and we are experimenting with other social media platforms like Pinterest as a way to share information about what we do and use the boards to ‘pin’ information and images about, in this case, Farida’s . All individually pinned images lead back to our project website, as shown in the example below.
Each pin can be engaged with separately and it’s worth thinking about engagement more critically, taking it beyond the simple metrics of ‘so many retweets/repins’ etc.
In later posts we intend to reflect on how useful these different social media strategies have been. This will have wider relevance to the use of social media in academic research, specifically for dissemination and engagement purposes.
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