Scholarly communications & social media literacies
Jul 9, 2025
10:00AM to 12:00PM
Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/07/2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Led by Arun Jacob
University of Toronto
This workshop investigates the evolving academic landscape within digital media, and datafication. Topics will include Critical Bibliometrics Literacy and Scholarly Communications for early career researchers. To maintain a professional presence online, an academic should develop social media literacies, competencies, and fluencies. Academics will be guided through methodical steps to better prepare them for impactful knowledge mobilization in online scholarly communication. After taking this workshop, early career researchers will be more equipped to create a presence in which they are findable, discoverable and visible in the online arena.
Arun Jacob (he/him) is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. Arun’s doctoral work unites media genealogy, intersectional feminist media studies, and critical university studies to explore how contemporary university data management techniques and information management systems shape our socio-cultural relations, experiences, and knowledges. Arun’s publications have appeared in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Debates in Digital Humanities 2023, Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, Digital Humanities Workshops: Lessons Learned and Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities.