tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post8747840787722936451..comments2023-09-21T04:02:29.457-04:00Comments on Skeptical Scalpel: Should social media accomplishments be recognized by academia? Skeptical Scalpelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13206922456661320751noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-2298416419170008872014-10-08T08:10:18.474-04:002014-10-08T08:10:18.474-04:00If it makes you feel any better, it happens to me ...If it makes you feel any better, it happens to me too. The secret is to copy your comment before posting it. Then if it crashes, you can easily redo it. <br /><br />I agree that scientific research can be wonderful, but other types of publications, like the ones you mentioned and more, should count for something too.Skeptical Scalpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13206922456661320751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-56996708347600736052014-10-05T13:17:18.530-04:002014-10-05T13:17:18.530-04:00Christian, thanks for giving me the idea to write ...Christian, thanks for giving me the idea to write about this.<br /><br />Mahesh, I appreciate the comments and the links. You have done a lot of work to compile all these data. <br /><br />That's an interesting site. It looks like having only 10% of one's followers as fake is actually pretty good. Everyone who is on Twitter should take a look at their own numbers.Skeptical Scalpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13206922456661320751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-22395835906734301992014-10-05T12:40:41.624-04:002014-10-05T12:40:41.624-04:00@SkepticScalpel, I run the fake follower test on h...@SkepticScalpel, I run the fake follower test on https://www.twitteraudit.com. According to this around 1002 (10%) followers out of total 10435 followers of @SkepticScalpel are fake.<br /><br />This is what they say about their testing method:-<br />"Each audit takes a random sample of 5000 Twitter followers for a user and calculates a score for each follower. This score is based on number of tweets, date of the last tweet, and ratio of followers to friends. We use these scores to determine whether any given user is real or fake. Of course, this scoring method is not perfect but it is a good way to tell if someone with lots of followers is likely to have increased their follower count by inorganic, fraudulent, or dishonest means."<br /><br />urther here are some recent news items related to fake likes and fake followers etc.:-<br /><br />http://digital.asiaone.com/digital/news/facebook-steps-battle-fake-likes<br /><br />http://racked.com/archives/2014/09/11/buy-instagram-followers-bloggers.php<br /><br />Thank you again for raising this important issue. I am hopeful that academia will recognize and find a way to incorporate social media impact.Maheshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01834421638371126705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-86069773504900221872014-10-05T12:07:36.419-04:002014-10-05T12:07:36.419-04:00Excellent piece @Skepticscalpel and a very importa...Excellent piece @Skepticscalpel and a very important question. No one denies the role, reach and speed of social media including academia as we see more and more schools and journals now have twitter handles, Facebook pages etc. But I was wondering how would academia quantify and standardize the impact in an era of ‘fake likes’, ‘fake followers’ and paid manipulated page visits.<br />Couple of months ago I did a small 'Comparative analysis of Twitter handles of Cabinet Ministers of India' (http://maheshdevnani.blogspot.in/2014/08/comparative-analysis-of-twitter-handles.html) and found that one person @devoted2nation who himself has only 2 followers on twitter was the 2nd top contributors to 'Total Audience Activity' of Twitter handle of Prime Minister of India in the month of August 2014. The top contributor @Suryavam_Ganesh has since then closed its twitter account.Maheshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01834421638371126705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-46734151654805739892014-10-04T17:05:50.509-04:002014-10-04T17:05:50.509-04:00Thanks for expanding on the comment from your prev...Thanks for expanding on the comment from your previous post. I think there is a big opportunity for defining impact in this new media world. <br /><br />And I want to emphasize thecredit to the many (20+) writers who contribute to Pallimed.Christian Sinclairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14685043408496367587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-79462406073629718492014-10-04T15:53:34.169-04:002014-10-04T15:53:34.169-04:00Josh, I hadn't heard about the Aaron Schwartz ...Josh, I hadn't heard about the Aaron Schwartz issue. Thanks for bringing it up. Change is occurring. I don't know how much longer journals will be able to charge $31.50 (interesting figure and they all charge the same amount) for 24 hours of access to a paper. Skeptical Scalpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13206922456661320751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-45783203767403000562014-10-04T14:46:30.117-04:002014-10-04T14:46:30.117-04:00These are really great points. The 5 mo. delay on...These are really great points. The 5 mo. delay on the part of the NEJM is especially representative of the problem. To that I would add that among the great things about the proliferation of medical blogs and forums (even the new one established by the ACS) is how easy, quick, and FREE it is to exchange ideas and get a sense of best practices. It is really reprehensible in the age of open information on the internet for so many professional journals to continue to be behind pay walls. Its astonishingly expensive to subscribe to a journal, and even more so to buy individual articles. Information that might help guide patient care should be available without hinderance for all healthcare professionals. There is an interesting corollary in the story of Reddit founder Aaron Schwartz, who committed an act of civil disobedience by freely publishing academic legal journals otherwise behind an expensive paywall. Sadly while he was facing federal prosecution he committed suicide, but it raised some debate in the media about free access to information that never quite made it to the medical community. Joshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-32036671817263038912014-10-04T10:37:25.900-04:002014-10-04T10:37:25.900-04:00Thank you for affirming what I have thought for a ...Thank you for affirming what I have thought for a while now. I didn't have room to include #FOAMed in the post but it is a valuable tool which I do mention in my talks.Skeptical Scalpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13206922456661320751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-84584881500369738422014-10-04T10:31:52.967-04:002014-10-04T10:31:52.967-04:00Since print media is going to go the way of the di...Since print media is going to go the way of the dinosaur (within my lifetime), I agree that the new paradigm is the future. Nearly instant peer review occurs online. Instead of the ivory tower viewpoint (I'm better than you people simply reading my paper), it's more of a collaboration of everyone. Also, the concept of forcing people to pay for information goes completely against the concept of improving patient care. <br />#FOAMed and podcasts are how the majority of my residents learn new topics. Books are out of date the instant they're printed, and contain horribly inaccurate dogma, sometimes for decades. All because nobody wants to correct the grey-hairs that wrote them. <br />It needs to change, and obviously is. Sadly, academic faculty are again behind the 8 ball with regards to the social media, and the community people are way ahead just as they were 30 years ago. <br />This is why historically it took 10 years or more for practices to change, because the ones teaching are usually the slowest to adopt new practices. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12030788458944985269noreply@blogger.com