Social media in higher education: a new “collegiality” for students and researchers? The case of Italian LIS studies
The case of Italian Library and Information Science studies is analyzed to understand the level and nature of use of social networks in a small area of Social sciences and humanities. We explored the presence of ten Italian LIS tenured researchers and university professors on six different social platforms (Mendeley, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Slideshare, LinkedIn, Twitter) selected according to the kind of tool, level of national use, relevance to academic field.