Social Media Use
Please use the official hashtags #SCW7 and #Slayage7 for all social media posts about the conference.
The Whedon Studies Association encourages the use of social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, etc.) at the conference as a way to summarize, highlight, excerpt, review, constructively critique, and/or promote presentations and other events provided the following:
Please keep in mind that presenters have invested time and intellectual energy in their work; professional courtesy as well as copyright laws apply. Also, out of respect for presenters and audience members, electronic devices should be kept on silent/vibrate mode during presentations.
We invite conference goers to:
We request conference goers to refrain from:
After the conference, the WSA will be using Storify to compile the tweets and posts made about SCW7 to create and preserve a record of the social media aspects of the conference. This compilation will be available to WSA members, conference attendees, and the larger public.
Thank you very much for your assistance in making the social media aspects of SCW7 a professional, collegial, and fun expansion of the traditional conference spaces.
The Whedon Studies Association encourages the use of social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, etc.) at the conference as a way to summarize, highlight, excerpt, review, constructively critique, and/or promote presentations and other events provided the following:
- The presenter has given permission to be cited in this manner; presenters have been asked to note at the beginning of their presentations if they prefer their remarks not be posted, tweeted, blogged, etc.
- Copyright law is observed.
- Verbatim material is limited to a few quotes.
- The author or speaker is referenced/cited appropriately.
- Speaker with known social media “handle”: ‘@EnsleyFGuffey says, “The Avengers is a cool film." #Slayage7’
- Speaker with no/unknown social media “handle”: ‘Ensley Guffey says, “The Avengers is a cool film.” #SCW7’
- Shortened citation to conserve characters: ‘E.Guffey says that “the Avengers is a cool film.” #Slayage7’
Please keep in mind that presenters have invested time and intellectual energy in their work; professional courtesy as well as copyright laws apply. Also, out of respect for presenters and audience members, electronic devices should be kept on silent/vibrate mode during presentations.
We invite conference goers to:
- Use the official hashtags #SCW7 and #Slayage7 for all social media posts.
- Follow us on Twitter at @whedonstudies.
- Join the official WSA Facebook group.
- Blog, post, and tweet about what you are hearing and seeing at the conference (keeping in mind the conditions above).
- Request the permission of speakers if you would like to take their photograph directly before or immediately after a session and post the image to a social media site.
- Keep criticism constructive and focused on ideas.
We request conference goers to refrain from:
- Using audio and/or video recording devices.
- Using photographic devices during the sessions without permission of the speaker(s).
- Using photographic devices with an active flash during sessions.
- Capturing, transmitting, or redistributing materials supplied or presented in a session, panel, or announcements and information presented in a WSA meeting without permission of the author(s)/speaker(s).
- Being hostile or engaging in personal criticism.
- Snarky posts. If it is not something you would say aloud and in person at a department meeting, think twice before putting it on social media.
After the conference, the WSA will be using Storify to compile the tweets and posts made about SCW7 to create and preserve a record of the social media aspects of the conference. This compilation will be available to WSA members, conference attendees, and the larger public.
Thank you very much for your assistance in making the social media aspects of SCW7 a professional, collegial, and fun expansion of the traditional conference spaces.