Sometimes it's not clear which specific use make researchers of some web tools and to what stage of the research process correspond.
http://gaudeamusacademia.com/forum/topics/how-do-you-use-social-academic-networks-for-collaborating-researc?xg_source=activity
To be honest, what I have engaged with academic social network is most to increase my understanding in the field of interest and also keep in touch with other members in the same area with close desire to find out more challenges and cover them in the most promising solution.
In other hand, it would brings me the opportunity to come across more ideas and take all possible and even alternative discussion into account that finally surf better and more valid viewpoints to address some issues you stand for.
I believe that intense academic collaboration always requires the trust that can only be built upon personal acquaintance with each other and is hard impossible to achieve if based entirely on social networking platforms. Therefore I consider them chiefly as a tool for making my own research and fields of interest visible and exploring other people's research interests - keywords are a central feature here, although they appear to be phrased very carelessly and sloppily, without any attention to conceptual hierarchies and their logic (rivalling variants of keywords are one of the most annoying phenomena such websites, because they lead to people either missing connections to relevant research or drowning their profiles with redundant variants of more or less identitcal keywords). That being said, I have found social academic networks to be a phantastic tool for *getting* in contact with colleagues I had not been personally acquainted with before. In my case this has already resulted in an invitation to a guest lecture abroad (and some wonderfully intense discussions with the colleague who invited me) and a friendship with semi-regular tea appointments at my own institution. These two examples illustrate quite nicely that contacts tend to be maintained via other, more direct and personal channels than networking websites (i. e. that the actual "networking" doesn't really happen on these sites), but that those sites are a good starting point for tying networking knots.
I think this is an interesting reference, a pre-print, looking at the use of crowd source funding for research. Its seems to be relevant to a number of discussions about Social Media and Research. Best Wishes, Matt
https://peerj.com/preprints/393/?utm_source=summary_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=connection
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