Presentation on #DHThis, a community-based aggregator for digital humanities content, for the Columbia University Scholarly Communication Program Research Without Borders Series. http://scholcomm.cul.columbia.edu/2013/08/23/communicating-your-research-social-media-and-the-research-cycle/

1. #DHThis and the
Social Media Research Cycle
Adeline Koh @adelinekoh
Director of DH@Stockton,
Assistant Professor of Literature,
Richard Stockton College
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2. What is #DHThis?
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3. What is #DHThis?
Experiment in new forms of publishing
Joint project by myself, Roopika Risam
(@roopikarisam), Alex Gil (@elotroalex), Jesse
Stommel (@jessifer), Martin Eve
(@martin_eve)
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4. What is #DHThis?
Community based
aggregator based on
the Pligg system
“Slashdot” for digital
humanities
Employs voting system
Anyone can sign up to
be a user/submit
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5. How does #DHThis Work?
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6. How does #DHThis Work?
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7. Published on #DHThis7
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8. Why #DHThis?
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#DHThis provides an alternative framework to the editorial
model, where a few editors get to determine what sort of
content gets published
Only complement: DHNow. But:
Also relies on editorial model to showcase content.
While DHNow pulls in from many feeds (anyone can add to),
these feeds are not easily findable from DHNow site.
Note: originally when DHNow was first incepted, they
conceived of a similar crowdsourcing platform but switched
to editorial because of lack of diversity
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9. Why #DHThis?
But--Digital Humanities growing as a field.
#DHThis helps create the forum for a larger
community to have a say.
#DHThis goal: To provide a platform to
share information & give feedback for/
within a community.
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10. #DHThis Goals
Create a community-based system/platform
Aims to both build community and provide
framework for community to interact
Also through “Groups” allows the formation
of different communities/subcommunities
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11. #DHThis & the Research Cycle
Serves to demonstrate what a community
finds engaging about different subjects
Way to get initial feedback/craft reactions
to a project/find better ways of expressing
it
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12. #DHThis & the Research Cycle
Extends functions of blogs by signal boosting their content. Additionally
provides information abt who might be interested in your work through
upvotes/comments
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13. #DHThis Limitations
Popularity Contest?
Up/Down Voting not adequate for academic
subjects?
Downvoting does not help with community
building
Categories on header cannot be dynamically
determined by individual user
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14. Next Steps
Next iterations of #DHThis:
Possible employment of Reddit platform, to
allow for user-generated subreddits
Hackathon/Theory-athon at #DH2014, and
maybe this afternoon at Studio@Butler
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15. And Finally... the #DHThis Cat
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