Social Media in Scholarly Communication According to Early Career Researchers in the Humanities, Theology, and the Arts

Marzena Świgoń

doi:10.35765/pk.2026.5403.16

Marzena Świgoń University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3600-8349

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2026.5403.16

Słowa kluczowe: komunikacja naukowa, media społecznościowe, badacze na wczesnym etapie kariery, humanistyka, teologia, sztuka

Abstrakt

W artykule przedstawiono korzystanie z mediów społecznościowych w wybranych elementach komunikacji naukowej, takich jak dzielenie się pomysłami, nawiązywanie kontaktów oraz osiąganie widzialności w budowaniu reputacji. Respondentami byli polscy humaniści, teolodzy i artyści na wczesnym etapie kariery; przeprowadzono z nimi wywiady podłużne, czyli dwa w odstępie roku, wiosną 2023 i 2024 roku. Badania te (w ramach grantu NCN nr 2022/45/B/HS2/00041) są ściśle powiązane z międzynarodowymi projektami Harbingers. Zaangażowanie w komunikację naukową w analizowanym zakresie w mediach społecznościowych okazało się niezbyt powszechne w badanej grupie respondentów i cieszy się raczej umiarkowanym zainteresowaniem. Wyniki uzyskane w polskiej grupie badaczy z trzech dziedzin mogą być porównane – dzięki ustrukturyzowanemu kwestionariuszowi wywiadu – w skali międzynarodowej oraz pomiędzy różnymi dziedzinami i dyscyplinami..

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Marzena Świgoń, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Full Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (UWM), Poland. She also serves as Chair of the Scientific Council for the Discipline of Social Communication and Media Science at UWM and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Media-Culture-Social Communication, published by the UWM Publishing House. She is a Senior Academic Associate at CIBER Research Ltd. (UK) and a member of the Committee of Science Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include scholarly communication, information and knowledge management, social media, and information barriers.

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Media społecznościowe w komunikacji naukowej

według początkujących badaczy z humanistyki, teologii i sztuki

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