InHacSpeVivo Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) Does anyone know if it's possible to pull city data from Academia.edu? I've had tons of recent US hits to my profile and papers, but there's no city listed for most of the U.S. searchers. Edited January 27, 2015 by In hac spe vivo.
NowMoreSerious Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 I'm assuming they do. During my season I got tons of hits on my academia.edu profile from all over the world. It's probably generally a good sign if you see a lot of activity.
bgt28 Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 I feel like if you go to analytics and scroll down, all of your hits (papers, profiles or otherwise) will be stratified based on region/city and country/state
NowMoreSerious Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Fair warning, though: just because you see a city on your analytics, doesn't mean that's the school that's considering you. For example, during my season (And this happened to a few other people), I got a hit at one city on my academic.edu profile, but it turns out that my professor of interest was doing archival work at this university, and ended up calling me from there for my acceptance to a school completely across the country. I was thrilled either way, but yeah.
InHacSpeVivo Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) Yeah, it's not gospel for me or anything; it's just super annoying that of course now cities aren't showing up for US searches, even though I'm getting them for searches outside the US. And the whole being searched by someone in East Lansing back in December has, of course, only heightened this anxiety. Edited January 27, 2015 by In hac spe vivo.
snyegurachka Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Yeah, it's not gospel for me or anything; it's just super annoying that of course now cities aren't showing up for US searches, even though I'm getting them for searches outside the US. And the whole being searched by someone in East Lansing back in December has, of course, only heightened this anxiety. I saw a hit from someone in the Bay Area and have been super anxious ever since. My friend saw one from RI though and he got an interview at Brown! It could be magic...but it could be nothing.
Appppplication Posted January 27, 2015 Author Posted January 27, 2015 My academia.edu profile was getting tons of action late Dec. And early Jan. I thought for sure I'd hear something early, but I've heard nothing yet
Dr. Old Bill Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Hmm. Is it bad that I don't have an academia.edu profile?
Katla Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Hmm. Is it bad that I don't have an academia.edu profile? You are not alone...
rising_star Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Eh, I dunno, Wyatt's Torch. I'm on the other side of this whole thing and don't have one. Or a website for that matter. I am intending to fix that this summer but don't have time right now. I feel like checking your academia.edu hits is just a way to wrack your nerves even more about this whole process.
Ramus Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Hmm. Is it bad that I don't have an academia.edu profile? As someone that has one, I can attest that they're entirely useless.
ComeBackZinc Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 I would certainly not worry about hits to Academia.edu. There's no good that will come from worrying about it. Personally, I've actually discovered a lot of great work, and had some people find mine, through my Academia page and my website. But it's really not worth worrying about who's seeing it. InHacSpeVivo and mikers86 2
Ramus Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Well that answers that question! I probably shouldn't have poo-pooed academia.edu in quite the way that I did. I just can't shake the feeling that it and the humanities folks' presence on LinkedIn are part of a larger push to make us more like STEM and business folks, and I'm not a huge fan of that. Humanities are different, and I think this endless drive toward professionalism -- pushing it into private life, outside our departments -- is a mistake. But, as my own presence on academia.edu indicates, I've succumbed to some of that myself.
kurayamino Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 I probably shouldn't have poo-pooed academia.edu in quite the way that I did. I just can't shake the feeling that it and the humanities folks' presence on LinkedIn are part of a larger push to make us more like STEM and business folks, and I'm not a huge fan of that. Humanities are different, and I think this endless drive toward professionalism -- pushing it into private life, outside our departments -- is a mistake. But, as my own presence on academia.edu indicates, I've succumbed to some of that myself. I totally get your dissatisfaction with where humanities is headed, but I think it's just a symptom of the "decline of the English major" thread. I think humanities majors are just trying to find a way to make themselves marketable and showcase their skills. I know in the research program I was part of this summer (for humanities and social science majors) there was a whole seminar dedicated to professionalization and how to make your linkedin work for you. All of this is to say, it's a part of a large problem, one that I don't think has an easy solution.
InHacSpeVivo Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 While I agree with Ramus and kurayamino re: STEM-ization of the humanities, I must also echo ComeBackZinc's sentiments. Just recently I found a fantastic comp syllabus posted on Academia.edu that was a tremendous help as I put my semester together. As someone who does research in pop culture, it's one of the better ways to find papers/works cited refs on more recent phenomenon without the 3-5 year "proper" publication delay. Basically, with all the hullabaloo in the journal world about IP and public access, it's nice to have another forum where researchers can share their work with others in the field... Even if it gives me additional (unnecessary) anxiety. smg 1
snyegurachka Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Hmm. Is it bad that I don't have an academia.edu profile? I suppose this is what the whole thread is about, but I created one so that it would be the first thing that comes up when I am googled. It makes people in your field aware that you exist, and it does expose/connect you to other scholars with shared interests and your friends' work. Maybe it's because I have a fairly uncommon name, but I would definitely prefer my academia.edu and even linkedin profiles to come up before images of my art and music (mostly made between ages 19–22) on tumblr. Also, as a conference organizer, these pages have been very helpful. Once the first rounds of blind review are over, it was very useful to see our applicants' locations/institutions, recent work, if they had presented the exact same paper at a similar conference. We still chose presenters without academia.edu profiles, but seeing the range of work that each applicant did was very helpful in solidifying our final panelists. So, like linkedin, it is a bit useless for getting jobs and other professional activity, but at least the networking aspect is based in reading others' papers and getting to know a little bit more about what is happening in your specific field of interest. I don't think it matters much if you have one during the admissions process, but once you are in and applying to conferences and grants and publishing on a regular basis, that type of networking/exposure to related work could be very useful to you.
fancypants09 Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 FWIW, it's interesting to note that the majority of my friends/acquaintances in lit do not have an online presence, not even a Facebook account which seems so ubiquitous these days. Their reasons vary: Some believe that they'll waste all of their time procrastinating on the web, while some prefer one-on-one or small group interactions, whether via email or an actual meeting, to a cold and impersonal internet connection.
Dr. Old Bill Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 I'm on FB, and have been since 2007...but honestly, I've never known how to use it. Not technically speaking, but socially. My posts are probably the most boring and mundane you can imagine, because I just have small chunks of friends from disparate walks of life with little commonality between them. I have a few poet friends, a few music friends, a few long-ago high school friends, a few of my wife's friends...it's such a melting pot that I don't ever really know what to post that will appeal to everyone. I'm probably overthinking it. Katla 1
fancypants09 Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) I'm on FB, and have been since 2007...but honestly, I've never known how to use it. Not technically speaking, but socially. My posts are probably the most boring and mundane you can imagine, because I just have small chunks of friends from disparate walks of life with little commonality between them. I have a few poet friends, a few music friends, a few long-ago high school friends, a few of my wife's friends...it's such a melting pot that I don't ever really know what to post that will appeal to everyone. I'm probably overthinking it. I wouldn't worry about any of the social media stuff too much! I've been told that the general rule of thumb is that "less is more" since you're not constantly fretting over whether you're saying the right or wrong things, whether your privacy settings are too lenient or restrictive, or whether you've "offended" someone by not accepting their friend/connection request or what they meant by de-friending you. Also, the less you have, the less you have to worry about whether someone on the ad comm has access over information that, while not offensive or embarrassing to you or others objectively, may be off-putting to him/her. As for having a page that ad comm members can find when they Google your name: I actually prefer (semi-)anonymity myself. I have a pretty common name, and share it with a has-been Asian pop star. Edited January 27, 2015 by fancypants09
__________________________ Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 I have a pretty common name, and share it with a has-been Asian pop star. Lol, I have a pretty common eastern European surname, and google searches of me will often yield white pages of a bunch of Romanian immigrants in the U.S. and a popular Romanian EDM DJ. Wyatt, I too am pretty useless at social media. I have a linkedin, but have never kept a facebook for longer than a year. I had one recently, but then got sick of finding myself in petty arguments or hurting someone's feelings based on this friend acceptance or that casual comment. There's also a lot of people who find me who, frankly, I have no desire to keep in touch with! The only management I've really done is to have a friend remove a pretty grotesque poem that I drunkenly wrote for a student zine in my freshman year of college from the zine's tumblr. The rest is linkedin, a youtube video of a presentation I did at my college, and a twitter that I don't know how to use (but somehow, apparently, I managed at some point to retweet a medieval manuscript illustration of Pope Leo III getting his eyes gouged out by a group of ruffians??).... I've considered getting an academia.edu profile just to download essays for free, but I have no idea what I would put on my own profile! I have no real publications... maybe someone can enlighten me on that aspect of the website.
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