Making use of the digital in academic practice
A useful place to begin is Andy Miah's1 recent presentation about Academia 2.0, and/or his A to Z of Social Media for Academia.
There are probably four aspects to making use of the digital in academic practice.
- finding papers, people, sites, resources
- curating your finds
- working with your finds
- establishing a digital presence
A key consideration whenever you delegate work to a machine, i.e. find studies of children learning Swahili, are the complementary skills and knowledge that are delegated back to you because of how the machine does its work.
You can find lots of accounts of what people use what platform or app for. You can see how quickly things have changed if you look at Andy Miah's 2012 post: Top 5 social media platforms for research development.