Crowdfunding academic researchers – the importance of academic social media profiles Palmer, Stuart and Verhoeven, Deb 2016, Crowdfunding academic researchers – the importance of academic social media profiles, in ECSM 2016: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Social Media, Academic Conferences and Publishing International, Sonning Common, Eng., pp. 291-299. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads palmer-crowdfunding-2016.pdf Published version application/pdf 555.85KB 2046 Title Crowdfunding academic researchers – the importance of academic social media profiles Author(s) Palmer, Stuart orcid.org/0000-0002-2517-0597 Verhoeven, Deb orcid.org/0000-0003-3680-3561 Conference name Social Media. European Conference (3rd : 2016 : Caen, France) Conference location Caen, France Conference dates 12-13 Jul. 2016 Title of proceedings ECSM 2016: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Social Media Editor(s) Bernades, C. Minchella, D. Publication date 2016 Start page 291 End page 299 Total pages 9 Publisher Academic Conferences and Publishing International Place of publication Sonning Common, Eng. Keyword(s) social media research crowdfunding Twitter social network analysis Summary Traditionally, the main source of funding for university research comes from either private or government grants. Grant schemes are usually highly competitive with low success rates, favour experienced or senior researchers and take considerable time to be processed thereby delaying potential discoveries. In December 2012 pozible.com and Deakin University agreed to create an opportunity for the community funding of Australian university research. Research My World launched to the public in May 2013 with eight campaigns spanning a range of academic discipline areas and project types. Subsequent project cycles have occurred at approximately six monthly intervals and the program was expanded to include research bids from other universities and research centres. As of mid-November 2015, 19 successful research crowdfunding projects have raised more than more than AU$185,000 in funding at Deakin University alone. This paper presents the results of a research investigation into the Research My World crowdfunding initiative. We detail the method developed for the collection and visualisation of social media data related to the research crowdfunding projects, the analysis of the links between social media activity and project success, and the general guidance for future project cycles that we derived from this analysis. ISBN 9781911218005 ISSN 2055-7213 2055-7221 Language eng Field of Research 080709 Social and Community Informatics 150502 Marketing Communications Socio Economic Objective 930503 Resourcing of Education and Training Systems HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed ERA Research output type E Conference publication Copyright notice ©2016, The Authors Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30084895 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 13 Jul 2016, 23:05:27 EST Wed, 13 Jul 2016, 23:06:01 EST Wed, 13 Jul 2016, 23:06:50 EST Thu, 14 Jul 2016, 05:01:14 EST Thu, 14 Jul 2016, 08:43:59 EST Thu, 14 Jul 2016, 08:46:33 EST Thu, 28 Jul 2016, 06:09:48 EST Wed, 17 Aug 2016, 12:35:05 EST Wed, 17 Aug 2016, 12:38:31 EST Wed, 17 Aug 2016, 12:39:34 EST Fri, 19 Aug 2016, 09:23:45 EST Thu, 25 Aug 2016, 09:08:26 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2016, 11:34:57 EST Sat, 17 Jun 2017, 02:30:28 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 12:37:11 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 4 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 2175 Abstract Views, 2054 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 13 Jul 2016, 23:06:50 EST