Social Media, Marketing, and Platforms

Mines the current means of funding science through the academy, government, and private funding in order to show the possibilities that are being realized through the use of crowdsourcing and social media.
Notes that private organizations are currently employing social media  for scientific  research, involving the public in science as subjects, researchers, clinicians, data collectors, reporters, and venture capitalists. This facilitates new, unprecedented research and provides for the spread of more information freely to the public. Drawbacks they are dealing with include reproducibility of results and questions of authority, as science and research makes its way into the hands of the people. Panelists suggest that these problems are solvable through collaboration.
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Source is a Forbes panel discussion. The link is to the full video (approximately 53 minutes).

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"Big Data On Campus Is Like A Keg Stand For Your Brain"
"In the burgeoning academic discipline of digital humanities, creating software tools is as important as getting published in a journal." 

 Mines the content of digital humanities, a new discipline that has sprung up in universities in the past four years or so, one that examines connections between written texts and digital information.
Notes that Stefan Sinclair, a professor of digital humanities, models the approach, spending his time designing tools that pull data from more texts than an individual student could normally handle.
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• Source is FastCompany. 
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