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Thank you, everyone, for being here. You and I are delighted to have this opportunity to share some of the work

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that we've been doing with border criminology and our associated social media.

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As you'll be hearing about as a means to engage with the public, to share our research and the research of our network partners,

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and also to advance professional visibility as we are early career researchers.

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I'm. So as you can see, social media is increasingly taking a place or having a role in our day to day work.

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And this lovely group of people are good at joking about it.

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So we do want to draw attention to the fact that it does occur.

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And hopefully with our presentation we can show how to maybe rein that in.

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So we're not looking at cat videos and other things.

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So what we'd like to do today is to tell you a bit more about border criminology, what we do there.

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Well, then spend some time talking about blogging for academic researchers.

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And inasmuch as we will be speaking about developing an online research researcher presence using social media.

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So what I'd like to start by talking about is the ways in which and the presentations by Rachel and as well as Ian and Ben and Chris have really shown

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that this notion of public engagement or impact the various words used to describe it is really becoming a part of the funding body requirements.

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This is the case for Professor Mary Bosworth's, European Research Council starting grant that is the funder of water terminologies and that's the

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project and under which we are funded and we work and so we drill bar criminologist since March 2013,

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largely as a way to help build a field of the terminology of mobility or water terminologies within the sort of broader discipline of terminology.

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And so we use the blog, website and social media as a way to help share some of our work, research and progress,

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as a way to stimulate discussion and also to advance ideas both within and beyond the academy.

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So what we've done is to create an interdisciplinary research network to build to break down, sorry,

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regional divisions that might separate us from the global north of the global south,

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as people call it, and also to break down disciplinary boundaries.

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So from from analogy we've got is our anthropology star and we've got brought some other people in that work in different fields,

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some really in sociology looking at policing, others from migration studies,

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some from the humanities, really as a way to kind of bring people together to look at,

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you know, things that interest us that we have in common, which generally is border control.

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know the research of network members available to the public at large in a more accessible format.

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And we also are trying to draw in visual images and other ways of communication that might break down sort of,

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you know, get us away from the normal, more slow process research articles or book publications.

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Policymakers and those with direct experiences of border controls are trying to do this in a variety of ways.

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Some have been more successful than others. But, you know,

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having an online forum and other ways that we can get diverse groups together to start generating discussion and dialogue and maybe the places that,

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you know, areas we need to understand better or the the gains that we made in improving knowledge in certain areas.

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So just a little bit about border chronologies. The core team is here at the University of Oxford, comprised of Mary Bosworth, who is the PI.

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There's myself and, you know, Schwarzenberg.

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So together we along with Adria, Annie Feeley, who's located in Greece at the moment, and we basically run this research network.

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And at present, we have 26 academic researchers who are part of it.

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We have a 14 member international advisory body that represents academic government as well as non-governmental sectors,

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to help give guidance on the ways in which the research network is developing in ways that could be perhaps, you know, we could better it in 2014.

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Our blog was viewed approximately 60,000 times with more than 1000 unique visitors per week.

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And we currently have 300 people subscribed to the blog, so they would get emails each time we publish something.

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Border criminology also promotes our research and related work through our Twitter accounts and Facebook page.

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So at present, we have just over 2800 Twitter followers and about 900 likes on Facebook.

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So we check into a thousand, not that we pay attention to these things.

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So, you know, if you're thinking why would you blog or why would you use social media as an academic or someone that's interested in criminology?

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So I think today if you work in academia, we know that what we do is increasingly measured in terms of our impact.

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We've heard words again today engagement, knowledge, exchange, public outreach, which are kind of new buzzwords that we hear a lot about.

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And what we'd like to do today is build on some of the previous presentations, which have already addressed many of these themes,

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to focus more specifically on blogging for researchers and social media with regards not just to the importance of establishing an online presence,

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but also in terms of research impact. So in relation to blogging and this is really a joke.

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Blogging does not, of course, replace academic, you know, peer reviewed articles, books of things we normally do.

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But blogging does provide a way to more quickly share what we're doing and maybe generate some interest in our work and make connections with others.

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That may have a more quickly then a journal article that will come out maybe next year.

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So in terms of blogs, the Faculty of Law Alone hosted a series of great research web pages.

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We have our own criminology at Oxford Page, and that's been good at sharing what alumni have been up to,

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as well as people commenting on current events, including the death penalty and things that have been happening in that area.

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as well as our events.

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And the Oxford Trinity Transitional Justice Research Group at Oxford also has a blog in which it shares its great work and the universities in laws.

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Oxford Human Rights Hub has a very active blog and is really great at speaking to current events and

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showing excellent commentary by researchers in the various fields related to law and human rights.

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Of course, we have Rachel's Alison to Parent Violence Project in which she can also share various things that are happening on her projects and keep,

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you know, connections to policymakers and other people that she's working with.

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which focuses on matters of criminology more broadly and as well as promotes the work that's done within the centre.

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Feel very bantamweight. King Henry has. All right. Which that is very useful.

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So some tips for blogging. And it's important here to keep in mind that if you are setting up a research Web page or a blog to make it successful,

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it's important to keep the blog alive. So this means adding new content at least twice per week.

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It helps invite other security themed weeks or special series.

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We've teamed up with campus at Oxford to do a themed week one, a series that on every Friday we focus on gender and migration.

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It's important to be methodologically creative, so having different sorts of posts that focus on different kinds of research.

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It's important to make sure that you're promoting your post wisely. So if you do make a blog post that you share it through your social media

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contacts on Twitter and Facebook and hope that they get retweeted or reposted.

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It helps to engage in current debates and world news. And for criminologists as an example, for events that have had a lot of media attention,

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such as the recent exquisite crisis in the Mediterranean with numbers of drownings.

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We've had some of the blog posts we've posted on those topics have really generated a lot of interest and a lot of traffic.

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It also helps to invite a diverse range of people to contribute to the blog,

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to infuses new ideas and perspectives, and not just sort of within what we do.

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so I wasn't coming to visit it and the last entry was in 2013 or something like that.

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To share knowledge and reach out to those who are in different locations that may not be able to attend Oxford but can then listen after the fact.

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It means to bring something new, and it also demands a lot of work and attention.

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which is a really great source for a variety of different posts on many topics by academics.

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openDemocracy The London School of Economics has a great section on its policy, politics and policy blog.

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how to translate maybe academic work and writing into something that's more accessible.

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in the full article to get a sense of what kind of research you're doing.

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So I turn it over. Now, just want to briefly highlight the importance of having an online presence.

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So we've been talking about themes of impact, knowledge, exchange, engagement and public outreach.

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If people are interested in your work and what you're doing, it's important for them to be able to find you.

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And having an online presence does enable you to have more reach in terms of a global audience.

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It allows you to promote your work as well as your skills.

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It also makes your work available, especially when you can post open access articles, things that haven't quite come to print or works in progress.

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were talking about the importance of being having an online presence so that, you know,

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if there's a topic on adolescent violence, they can quickly find the expert in the area.

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And often they're looking at people's Facebook pages because not all institutional profiles are updated.

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So if you do have something that's really quick and hits, you know, they might come to you rather than someone else,

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if that's the way you're hoping to help market yourself and your research.

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and that might be a good way to, you know, generate interest and potential collaborations in the future.

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But I'm going to take us a few steps back and pretty much going to take this back to basics.

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So in terms of establishing an online presence, I'm going to speak a little bit more about Twitter and Facebook.

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just a bit of self-promotion, but we felt weird about putting other people's profiles there.

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And I mean, you see it has Centre for Criminology and the University of Oxford, it has all these logos which kind of gives it credibility.

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So if you do have access to your institutional web space, it's excellent to have an online profile within the institutional web website, web page.

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but it's not a problem because if you can't, there's many professional networks such as academia do.

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I don't know if you know it, but there's my profile again. So academia.

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It's you can put your research interests, you put all your publications, but also you can follow through people and people can follow you.

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And you can also follow research interests, which means that if someone just so publishes a paper in my case that is tagged by prisons or ethnography,

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I do get a notice saying new paper by prison or ethnography or the people that I follow.

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I've put in Sarah's profile again, LinkedIn is free.

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Everyone can set up their own online profile. You can put everything from your education degrees, from your work experience, your publications.

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So you can follow people, people can follow you, etc. So the reason that we're sort of making a point about online profiles is that two years ago,

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one of the first events that we've done with of criminology was a one day workshop on foreign national prisoners.

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And it was extremely difficult to find people working on foreign national prisoners to find who is actually doing work in this subject.

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And there were a lot of people who only had profiles in strange languages and by strange languages and everything other than English.

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if you want people to be able to contact you and to reach you,

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then you do need to have you know, you need to be visible to be findable, if that's a word.

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we did an open call for papers and we received a vast amount of contributions and the majority of those were from PhD students,

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none of which had online profiles. So it would have been impossible for us to know what they were working on.

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It's short, it's fast, it reaches vast amounts of people and institution.

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There's already a very wide criminology community, community on Twitter, which not only circulates news and information,

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So like the Mediterranean crisis or a few months ago, the whole issue with the ban on books for prisoners or more recently,

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I mean, how great is that? But again, there are things to consider when you set up or when you have an account on Twitter.

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So this is a Twitter profile from Board of Criminology. And what I want us to focus on is this little bit of the profile now,

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this small information that says border criminologist brings together researchers in criminology.

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But what about this is of vital importance for people to find you and to know who you are and what you're doing.

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And also, you will notice that we have these hashtags on criminology and border control and border,

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which kind of means that everyone that goes on Twitter.

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And is looking for criminology accounts and puts out that criminology will find us.

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So we'll find a profile and we'll know that we're there. So there are things to consider about your profile.

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And one of the things is there are many, many people out there with the same name.

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So often you're trying to find someone on Twitter and you come across 20 married passwords, for instance.

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And you need to know which one is the married was worth that you want to follow or that you want to tag,

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but also because you want people with similar professional interests who don't know you or who don't know your work to be able to find you.

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So I set up a case study in search of Ben Crewe. So this is an example.

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If you search for Ben Crewe and Twitter, you get all these.

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And I mean, this is only like a third of the page. The page goes on and on and on.

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So there's a whole bunch of people under the name of Ben Crewe on Twitter.

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So which one is the one that I know or that I want to follow or that I want to use?

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Now, Ben has a great it's simple, great profile, simple and to the straight.

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So I know Prison Research Centre, University of Cambridge. This is the guy that I want.

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So it's simple and it's easy. If Ben didn't have those few lines and believe me, a lot of people don't have those few lines,

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then it becomes very difficult if you don't actually know the person.

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I mean, you might have the photograph, but if you don't know the person and it becomes very difficult to follow the person.

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So again, my Twitter profile, I'm sorry about this. So consider what images you will choose.

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I mean, images with beachwear or, you know, just bungee jumping are usually not very adequate.

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I mean, this photograph is actually not the most eloquent either.

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I will need to change it, but also describe their professional interests.

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I mean, I start my Twitter profile with anthropology, migration and criminology, which are the three main disciplinary areas that I work in.

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So again, anyone who tags on Twitter for criminology, migration or anthropology will find my profile.

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And then I just have a few sentences on what exactly I'm doing research on.

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And I also tagged the Centre for Criminology.

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So at Oxford, Crim is the Twitter account of the Centre for Criminology, which is the institution that I work for,

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and you will notice that I also include my Centre for Criminology Online Web page.

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So all of these things are important if you want people to find you and then who to follow.

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I mean, Twitter is supposed to expand your networks and to engage in conversation.

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So you want to follow your colleagues and people that have the same professional interests and not necessarily your friends.

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And there's a lot of good criminology Twitter accounts there.

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I mean, if your main interest is criminology, you can follow a whole bunch of criminology journals, criminology, publishers, departments.

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I mean, Sara has showed you we have a wonderful Twitter account for the Centre for Criminology,

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Criminology, criminal justice institutions, legal practitioners,

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activists, NGOs, but also think strategically like if you want to work in a place like Rand where Chris works,

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you might want to follow their Twitter account.

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Or if you're thinking later on, you might want to work for the UN, then follow their Twitter accounts to be up to date with what they're doing.

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Tag them in your own tweets, make them hear you and make make yourself visible.

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So these are just examples of a few criminology Twitter accounts, which are based in London, Australia and New York.

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I mean, there's plenty of more. This is just a few examples. Also, how to follow when you follow someone or an institution,

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make sure that you also retweet one or two of their last tweets because you do want to follow people, but you also want people to follow you back.

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Otherwise, you're just hearing the conversation, but you're not part of the conversation because if no one is following you,

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you can tweet as much as you want, but no one is listening. So you want people to follow you back.

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And these are just a couple of tricks to make people follow you back.

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So you can just do the sort of quick, fast way of just click on follow and a bunch of people.

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But if you actually go and look at their profiles and retweet one or two, one or two of their tweets,

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this will enhance the chances that they will actually want to follow you back.

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Another good thing, and this is the greatest thing, but it's more time consuming, is to make your own tweet about it and tag and attack that person.

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So I have this confinement network tweet, which works out very well to kind of show this.

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So check out this web page on pages of confinement and border zones by photographer Sarah Christiana.

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And then you have the URL and again, the hash tag photography.

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So it has. Yeah, we're done. Yeah. Just very quickly.

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Are we done then? Got in two more minutes.

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Okay, I'll just go on and say that Facebook is really great and a lot of people have a lot of issues with Facebook and have closed their accounts.

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But you can see the Facebook because it is a great professional tool and I'm not going to go much into it.

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These are just a few of the things.

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Also, Oxford has a lot of resources for if you want to continue and expand your knowledge on social media.

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So courses about online presence, Twitter for academia and security.

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This is very important, especially with Facebook making blogs, but also it has all these other all these other resources that I find very useful.

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And I'm not going to go much into this, but we have the Web page assistant once.

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So final words keep your professional social media separated from your personal one, because at the end of the day,

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your colleagues don't want to know about your cats or about your weekend of boules in Brighton.

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And also you probably don't want your professional contacts to see photographs of your children or yourself at parties.

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So another very important point don't ignore negative comments.

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Remember that social media is about engagement, so find ways to respond to criticism or at the very least to acknowledge it.

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If you don't want to respond it, just retweet whatever critical tweet you got, but acknowledge that you are.

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You took that into consideration. Invest a few minutes a day in social media and be patient.

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It takes time to develop the good network and to establish a reputation and to have an audience.

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But it's worth it. Sorry. We took a bit more time. I mean, any questions?