As a tool for sharing knowledge and building networks among researchers and the public, social media plays an important role in open social scholarship. For the scholarly community, participating in social media can be an effective way to discover research, build professional networks, and engage with the broader community. It is also a space in which scholars can construct and curate their digital identity (Hildebrandt and Couros; Marshall 2015; Willinsky 2010).

1. open scholarship
2. open scholarship policy observatory
3. policy analysis

Original publication: Winter, Caroline. "Social Media and Open Social Scholarship." Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, 29 Nov. 2019, https://ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/social-media-and-open-social-scholarship/.

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