Why Your Department Needs Social Media - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Social media is crucial not only because it provides a fast way to share information, but also because it makes faculty workloads more transparent.
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What’s also crucial about Facebook and Twitter is that they make clear the fact that faculty workloads stretch beyond teaching. Announcements of the talks we give, the articles we write, the exhibits we organize, the fellowships we win, and our media appearances emphasize that some of us work on contracts in which about half of our time is supposed to be devoted to research.