Uso de las redes sociales digitales profesionales y científicasel caso de las 3 universidades gallegas

  1. Francisco Campos-Freire 1
  2. José Rúas-Araújo 2
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

  2. 2 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05rdf8595

Journal:
El profesional de la información

ISSN: 1386-6710,  1699-2407

Year of publication: 2016

Issue Title: Metamedios y audiencias

Volume: 25

Issue: 3

Pages: 431-440

Type: Article

DOI: 10.3145/EPI.2016.MAY.13 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

A survey conducted among 5,500 professors and researchers from the three Galician universities received 463 answers. The results reveal a rise in popularity of professional and scientific digital social networks, but it also shows a lack of knowledge about them and inefficient use of them. Ninety percent of Galician university professors are present in a professional or academic network, but only 8.64 percent consider themselves experts. LinkedIn and ResearchGate have the largest number of members, although their average use is medium or low. Biomedical, engineering, and natural sciences scholars use more networks than the two previously mentioned; and social sciences and humanities scholars prefer Academia.edu. In total, 32.8 percent of the three universities’ scholars that answered the survey use social networks at least once a month. Social networks are used primarily to disseminate and follow publications, and, secondly, to get citations and improve reputation.

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La encuesta y este artículo forman parte de las investigaciones de la Red Internacional de Investigación de la Gestión de la Comunicación (R2014/026 Xescom), apoyada en régimen competitivo por la Consellería de Cultura, Educación y Ordenación Universitaria de la Xunta de Galicia, en colaboración con un proyecto del Programa Prometeo del Senescyt de Ecuador, en la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL) y en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ibarra (Pucesi). La red Xescom está formada por cuatro grupos de investigación de las tres universidades gallegas (Novos Medios, Necom, iMarka y MILE) y otros diez de Portugal, Brasil, México, Ecuador y Colombia.

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