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Hi all, This reminds me of a series of discussions we had here at Hull regarding social media and citations. One of our reasons for developing our own referencing guidelines for Harvard and Footnotes was to enable us to provide guidance on things like social media, which are absent in a lot of referencing systems. Our guidance covers blogs, forums, YouTube, mailing lists and social media (with Facebook and Twitter as examples). We then ensured our styles in both RefWorks and EndNote worked with these source types. Of course, providing guidelines is not to suggest social media as a suitable source for all occasions, but it is fair to say there are lots of situations in which it is useful. A lot of our politics students are interested in the tweets of politicians for example and business/marketing students many analyse a company's Facebook page. For this reason, we felt it important to provide instruction to help students. Harvard: https://canvas.hull.ac.uk/courses/373/modules/items/74760 Best wishes, Lee [cid:image005.jpg@01D33E89.DDA81C20] Lee Fallin | Library Skills Adviser | Skills Team Brynmor Jones Library University of Hull Hull, HU6 7RX, UK [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>| 01482 466306 | www.hull.ac.uk/skills<http://www.hull.ac.uk/skills> [cid:image006.png@01D33E89.DDA81C20] @HullUni_Library<https://twitter.com/HullUni_Library> [cid:image007.png@01D33E89.DDA81C20] /HullUniLibrary<https://www.facebook.com/HullUniLibrary/> [cid:image008.png@01D33E89.DDA81C20] hulluni_library<https://www.instagram.com/hulluni_library/> From: Kim Shahabudin [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 03 October 2017 09:07 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Social media curators I'd say whether they are cited would depend on usage. If you were referring to a tweet/post that you happened to have read on a curated site, it would be the tweet/post that would be the source and the tweeter/poster who'd be the author. If you were referring to the collection of tweets/posts as a whole (e.g. the reasons for selection, consequences of selecting etc) then the collection would be the source and you'd refer to the curator as the author. As for how to cite social media posts, I think some academic referencing sites may be reticent because of caution in enabling students to use them as sources (not a position I necessarily agree with). My go-to for awkward referencing queries is the Q&A on the Chicago Referencing website, as Virginia has already suggested. HTH Kim ________________________________ Dr Kim Shahabudin, SFHEA, Study Adviser, Study Advice & Maths Support University of Reading Library @ URS Building, Whiteknights, Reading 0118 378 4242/5222 * www.reading.ac.uk/library/study-advice<http://www.reading.ac.uk/library/study-advice> twitter: @unirdg_study Please note that I now work part-time and am not usually on campus on Mondays. ________________________________ From: learning development in higher education network [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Virginia Power [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 02 October 2017 17:43 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Social media curators Hi Andy I would say that they should be - here at UWE we provide referencing guides for a wide range of social media but this is a new one on me! https://www.prov.vic.gov.au/recordkeeping-government/document-library/pros-1107-s1-digitisation-requirements In my humble opinion I would suggest that curated sites such as Scoop.it would fall under websites; however you could also cite it as if it was a museum exhibit and include the curator's name in that way as per these two examples from the museum world: http://penandthepad.com/cite-museum-exhibit-mla-format-2882.html http://chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Documentation/faq0225.html Not totally satisfactory but the closest I can get at the moment :) Virginia Virginia Power, BA (Hons.) MSc. M.Ed. PGCE (HE) FHEA Lecturer/Researcher in Information Science & Management Faculty of Environment and Technology University of the West of England Room 2Q19 Frenchay Campus: Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday and email at any time! Thursday and Friday are my PhD research days 0117 3287921 From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andy Mitchell Sent: 02 October 2017 15:57 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Social media curators Hi all, A quick question. Should social media curators be acknowledged in references? I see their role has become more important to people who use social media, but I have yet to find any specific advice on how they should be acknowledged in a reference. Further to that, some sites that discuss referencing do not mention social media at all. Social media has been around for 20 years so I was curious why the role of the curator has not been considered. Thoughts? Andy Mitchell