The document discusses new digital tools for academic research and writing. It explores how scholars can develop an online presence through blogging, using social networks, building websites and profiles, and curating and sharing research. These new tools allow scholars to collaborate more openly and disseminate their work to a wider audience. The document also examines how digital tools are transforming scholarly communication and enabling more participatory and transformative scholarship.
1. The document discusses tagging and folksonomies, which allow users to collaboratively add metadata tags to resources.
2. It notes debates around whether folksonomies support search and browsing as well as controlled vocabularies developed by professionals.
3. The document also examines challenges of tagging like findability, collection management, and accuracy, as well as benefits like increased re-findability and social interaction.
Your Digital Identity: Social Media & Online Presencelibrarianrafia
This document provides information on managing your digital identity and online presence as a scholar. It discusses social media platforms like Twitter and how they can be used for professional purposes like networking at conferences. It also covers representing yourself online through platforms like Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and institutional repositories. Maintaining privacy and copyright over your work are also addressed. The goal is to help scholars strategically build and control their digital identity.
This document provides an overview of social media and online presence for students. It discusses common social media platforms and how to manage your digital identity and brand online. Tips are provided on using privacy settings and representing your professional self online, as maintaining an online presence can impact your career. The document aims to help students think about their online content and who can access it.
This document outlines the goals and assignment for a university course on feminist thought. The course explores diverse feminist theories in a global context. Students are asked to contribute an entry of 2 paragraphs to Wikipedia on a topic related to feminism as a way to collectively and democratically produce knowledge. The assignment aims to increase students' familiarity with technology, understanding of knowledge as socially constructed, and sense of themselves as knowledge producers. Student feedback found the assignment empowering but also stressful due to the global audience.
Libraries Do Matter: Enhancing Traditional Services with Library 2.0St. Petersburg College
What is library 2.0? Should your library actually 'upgrade' from version 1.0 to 2.0? Is Library 3.0 on the horizon? Sit back and relax while Diana Sachs-Silveira and Chad Mairn answer these questions while unscrambling the hodgepodge of Web 2.0 lingo. Diana and Chad will introduce a variety of Web 2.0 concepts that have evolved into services like MySpace, Wikipedia, Del.ic.ious, Digg, Flickr, RSS, Second Life, Writely, and others and discuss how libraries can play a part in all of this.
Libraries: technology as artifact and technology in practicelisld
Research and learning workflows are increasingly enacted in data-rich network environments. New behaviors are emerging which are shaped by and in turn shape workflow and data tools and services. This means that library attention is shifting from not only providing support systems and services but to supporting those behaviors more directly as they emerge. This support may take the form of particular system or services, but will also involve consulting and advising about such things as publication venues, reputation management, profiles, research networking.
A keynote presentation given at the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities CITM and Library Deans meeting. Loyola University, Maryland.
Reshaping the world of scholarly communication by Dr. Usha MunshiAta Rehman
This document discusses open access initiatives in India including institutional repositories, open access journals, metadata harvesting services, open courseware, and digital library initiatives. It provides examples of several national-level open access repositories and notes that while many Indian journals are hybrid, no Indian journal charges authors fees for publishing papers. It also summarizes statistics on the growth of open access repositories globally and in India.
1. The document discusses tagging and folksonomies, which allow users to collaboratively add metadata tags to resources.
2. It notes debates around whether folksonomies support search and browsing as well as controlled vocabularies developed by professionals.
3. The document also examines challenges of tagging like findability, collection management, and accuracy, as well as benefits like increased re-findability and social interaction.
Your Digital Identity: Social Media & Online Presencelibrarianrafia
This document provides information on managing your digital identity and online presence as a scholar. It discusses social media platforms like Twitter and how they can be used for professional purposes like networking at conferences. It also covers representing yourself online through platforms like Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and institutional repositories. Maintaining privacy and copyright over your work are also addressed. The goal is to help scholars strategically build and control their digital identity.
This document provides an overview of social media and online presence for students. It discusses common social media platforms and how to manage your digital identity and brand online. Tips are provided on using privacy settings and representing your professional self online, as maintaining an online presence can impact your career. The document aims to help students think about their online content and who can access it.
This document outlines the goals and assignment for a university course on feminist thought. The course explores diverse feminist theories in a global context. Students are asked to contribute an entry of 2 paragraphs to Wikipedia on a topic related to feminism as a way to collectively and democratically produce knowledge. The assignment aims to increase students' familiarity with technology, understanding of knowledge as socially constructed, and sense of themselves as knowledge producers. Student feedback found the assignment empowering but also stressful due to the global audience.
Libraries Do Matter: Enhancing Traditional Services with Library 2.0St. Petersburg College
What is library 2.0? Should your library actually 'upgrade' from version 1.0 to 2.0? Is Library 3.0 on the horizon? Sit back and relax while Diana Sachs-Silveira and Chad Mairn answer these questions while unscrambling the hodgepodge of Web 2.0 lingo. Diana and Chad will introduce a variety of Web 2.0 concepts that have evolved into services like MySpace, Wikipedia, Del.ic.ious, Digg, Flickr, RSS, Second Life, Writely, and others and discuss how libraries can play a part in all of this.
Libraries: technology as artifact and technology in practicelisld
Research and learning workflows are increasingly enacted in data-rich network environments. New behaviors are emerging which are shaped by and in turn shape workflow and data tools and services. This means that library attention is shifting from not only providing support systems and services but to supporting those behaviors more directly as they emerge. This support may take the form of particular system or services, but will also involve consulting and advising about such things as publication venues, reputation management, profiles, research networking.
A keynote presentation given at the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities CITM and Library Deans meeting. Loyola University, Maryland.
Reshaping the world of scholarly communication by Dr. Usha MunshiAta Rehman
This document discusses open access initiatives in India including institutional repositories, open access journals, metadata harvesting services, open courseware, and digital library initiatives. It provides examples of several national-level open access repositories and notes that while many Indian journals are hybrid, no Indian journal charges authors fees for publishing papers. It also summarizes statistics on the growth of open access repositories globally and in India.
Challenges and opportunities for academic librarieslisld
Research and learning behaviors are changing in a network environment. What challenges do Academic libraries face? What opportunities do they have? A presentation given at a symposium on the future of academic libraries at the Open University.
December 2, 2015: NISO/NFAIS Virtual Conference: Semantic Web: What's New and...DeVonne Parks, CEM
International Cultural Informatics Collaborations: Crossing Borders Without Crossing Swords
J. Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Promise of BIBFRAME, by Angela KroegerAngela Kroeger
Brief overview of BIBFRAME, with a slight emphasis on intellectual freedom issues. Lightning round presentation by Angela Kroeger of the Criss Library at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, presented at the Joint Spring Meeting of the Nebraska Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Round Table and Technical Services Round Table, March 28, 2014. Full presenter notes/script and bibliography available upon request. Contact angelajkroeger [at] gmail [dot] com.
The document discusses social networks and their impact on society. It defines social networks as online systems that allow users to create public profiles, connect with other users, and view and navigate connections. Some key points made are that social networks enable sharing, organizing, finding content and people, and support forming groups and maintaining existing social relationships. Reasons people use social networks include keeping in touch with friends, making new connections, joining groups of common interest, and validation from contributing online. Participation in social networks requires costs of time, effort, attention and sometimes money.
April 20 2018 scholarly conversation soc 175 LVCarter
This document discusses scholarly conversation and how it occurs through the iterative process of ideas being formulated, debated, and weighed against one another over time through citations. It examines footprints of scholarly conversation by analyzing who a sample source cites and who cites the sample source. The goal is to form an analysis of issues surrounding scholarly conversation through exploring this iterative process of ideas.
RMIT University - Research Futures - Framing Your Research NetworkJoyce Seitzinger
This document discusses how to build a personal research network through online tools and platforms. It recommends establishing a presence on communities, curating information streams, building a personal hub to collect resources, and curating an online presence. Specific platforms and strategies are mentioned, like using academic blogging and Twitter to raise your profile and share research early. Tracking metrics and engaging with others are important. The goal is to become a node in a broad network of distributed knowledge sharing and creativity.
Mixing Your Personal Learning Network - EIT Guest LectureJoyce Seitzinger
Joyce Seitzinger gave a guest lecture about personal learning networks and cultivating a PLN. She discussed how education is becoming more distributed through networks and less about centralized instruction. She covered tools for PLNs like communities, information streams, and curating a personal hub for collecting and sharing information. Seitzinger also provided tips for enriching one's PLN through communities of practice, MOOCs, conferences and designing learning experiences for others with empathy.
Personal Learning Networks - Windesheim Honours Programme on Social InnovationJoyce Seitzinger
This document discusses personal learning networks (PLNs) and their importance in education. It provides quotes from several experts on the topic. Joi Ito argues that education is no longer about centralized instruction, but establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity. George Siemens describes learning as foraging for knowledge when and where it is needed, driven by real life rather than theory. The document presents a framework for PLNs including presence, curation, communities, information streams, and personal hubs/collections. It encourages the reader to become a node in the author's network.
Together designed, an actor network approach to the design of websitesMark Cypher
The document discusses an actor-network approach to website design. It argues that user experience with a website, like the Australian Asbestos Network site, should be viewed as a collective, distributed phenomenon rather than something solely subjective. The website and its elements, like content, interface design, and user submissions, form a heterogeneous network of human and non-human actors that shape user perceptions and experiences through inscription, formatting, and by prescribing frameworks for interaction. On this view, aesthetic experience with a website emerges from relations throughout the network, not just from within the individual user.
This document summarizes issues related to digital scholarship and publishing born-digital works. It discusses the shift from deep attention suited to print to hyper attention online. Institutions still value print-centric models of scholarship despite opportunities for digital works. Digital works face issues of obsolescence, lack of peer review, and commercialization that challenge their longevity and credibility. The document advocates for documenting digital works thoroughly and using open standards to help works last despite technological changes.
The document summarizes blogs, bloggers, and blogging. It discusses what a blog is, the costs associated with blogging, how blogs have impacted society, how to use a blog, and why the presenter uses a blog. The presenter aims to agitate and disturb people with their blog rather than just provide information.
The document summarizes key topics from an Enterprise 2.0 workshop, including definitions of knowledge management, knowledge processes in learning organizations, and contrasts between Web 1.0 and 2.0 technologies. Various Web 2.0 tools are also described such as wikis, blogs, forums, social bookmarking, social networking, and RSS feeds. The goal of knowledge management is to transform organizations into learning organizations by creating, acquiring, transferring knowledge and modifying behaviors.
The artof of knowledge engineering, or: knowledge engineering of artGuus Schreiber
The document discusses the evolution of knowledge engineering from a small research community to widespread use on the web. It notes that while ontologies are now seen as crucial for information integration, our current conceptualizations of classes and properties may not be sufficient to understand the complexity of the web. The document also discusses challenges in ontology alignment and semantic search, and argues that combining detailed semantic modeling with statistical techniques shows promise as the field moves forward.
Semantics for visual resources: use cases from e-cultureGuus Schreiber
1) The document discusses several use cases involving multimedia from the e-culture domain that require semantic technologies to enable searches across different media types.
2) It analyzes challenges in searching for related images based on time period or style and finding paintings with similar subjects.
3) Bridging the semantic gap between low-level visual features and high-level concepts is difficult and requires techniques like concept detectors trained on visual features as well as linking visual ontologies to semantic ones.
You might want to know more about the User Experience field. You might be interested in finding out what resources, skills and abilities are relevant. You might just want to see a passionate UX professional give a 10 minute overview on how to get started!
The document compares the views of Anderson and Weller on open learning. They both see open learning as initially focusing on access but now facilitated by technology like Web 2.0. An open scholar uses new technologies, has an online identity, networks, and encourages critique. Weller sees openness as shaped by ease of sharing and sees two types of open educational resources. Anderson sees three overlapping learning environments and emphasizes relationships over information. Both see adoption of open scholar characteristics as engendering lifelong learning.
The document provides an overview of integrating 21st century literacies into the curriculum. It discusses the convergence of multiple literacies and how examples integrate concepts from informal learning practices. Emerging research on digital media and learning is presented on topics like credibility evaluation. The document envisions possible futures with more emphasis on critical thinking, creation, communication and lifelong learning. Literacies are seen as socially situated and involving skills beyond the classroom.
This document discusses the field of web science and issues related to applying it to digital heritage collections. It defines web science as the interdisciplinary study of social behavior on the web, the technologies that enable it, and their interactions. Key topics covered include social computing, privacy, economics, universal access, and technical challenges like information retrieval and vocabulary alignment. The document also outlines the author's work applying semantic web and linked data principles to improve access to cultural heritage collections on the digital web.
1) Data visualization is the process of transforming abstract data into visual representations to help people understand relationships and patterns. It has a long history dating back to early pioneers like William Playfair and Jacques Bertin.
2) There is a prevalence of data visualization today due to the huge amount of data being generated by databases and social media. The process typically involves parsing, filtering, representing, mining, refining, and interacting with data.
3) Data visualization is significant because it lowers barriers to understanding large and complex data, and is an important 21st century skill for citizenship as data proliferates.
Dada and 1960s media art like Fluxus disrupted traditional art forms. Marcel Duchamp created readymades like "Fountain" that questioned what qualified as art. The Situationists advocated suppressing art and critiqued capitalist society's division of producers and consumers. Guy Debord wrote "The Society of the Spectacle" describing how life under capitalism had been reduced to meaningless consumption and spectacle. Key Situationist concepts included the derive (drifting through urban areas), psychogeography (how environments influence emotions), and detournement (subverting existing cultural works).
Challenges and opportunities for academic librarieslisld
Research and learning behaviors are changing in a network environment. What challenges do Academic libraries face? What opportunities do they have? A presentation given at a symposium on the future of academic libraries at the Open University.
December 2, 2015: NISO/NFAIS Virtual Conference: Semantic Web: What's New and...DeVonne Parks, CEM
International Cultural Informatics Collaborations: Crossing Borders Without Crossing Swords
J. Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Promise of BIBFRAME, by Angela KroegerAngela Kroeger
Brief overview of BIBFRAME, with a slight emphasis on intellectual freedom issues. Lightning round presentation by Angela Kroeger of the Criss Library at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, presented at the Joint Spring Meeting of the Nebraska Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Round Table and Technical Services Round Table, March 28, 2014. Full presenter notes/script and bibliography available upon request. Contact angelajkroeger [at] gmail [dot] com.
The document discusses social networks and their impact on society. It defines social networks as online systems that allow users to create public profiles, connect with other users, and view and navigate connections. Some key points made are that social networks enable sharing, organizing, finding content and people, and support forming groups and maintaining existing social relationships. Reasons people use social networks include keeping in touch with friends, making new connections, joining groups of common interest, and validation from contributing online. Participation in social networks requires costs of time, effort, attention and sometimes money.
April 20 2018 scholarly conversation soc 175 LVCarter
This document discusses scholarly conversation and how it occurs through the iterative process of ideas being formulated, debated, and weighed against one another over time through citations. It examines footprints of scholarly conversation by analyzing who a sample source cites and who cites the sample source. The goal is to form an analysis of issues surrounding scholarly conversation through exploring this iterative process of ideas.
RMIT University - Research Futures - Framing Your Research NetworkJoyce Seitzinger
This document discusses how to build a personal research network through online tools and platforms. It recommends establishing a presence on communities, curating information streams, building a personal hub to collect resources, and curating an online presence. Specific platforms and strategies are mentioned, like using academic blogging and Twitter to raise your profile and share research early. Tracking metrics and engaging with others are important. The goal is to become a node in a broad network of distributed knowledge sharing and creativity.
Mixing Your Personal Learning Network - EIT Guest LectureJoyce Seitzinger
Joyce Seitzinger gave a guest lecture about personal learning networks and cultivating a PLN. She discussed how education is becoming more distributed through networks and less about centralized instruction. She covered tools for PLNs like communities, information streams, and curating a personal hub for collecting and sharing information. Seitzinger also provided tips for enriching one's PLN through communities of practice, MOOCs, conferences and designing learning experiences for others with empathy.
Personal Learning Networks - Windesheim Honours Programme on Social InnovationJoyce Seitzinger
This document discusses personal learning networks (PLNs) and their importance in education. It provides quotes from several experts on the topic. Joi Ito argues that education is no longer about centralized instruction, but establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity. George Siemens describes learning as foraging for knowledge when and where it is needed, driven by real life rather than theory. The document presents a framework for PLNs including presence, curation, communities, information streams, and personal hubs/collections. It encourages the reader to become a node in the author's network.
Together designed, an actor network approach to the design of websitesMark Cypher
The document discusses an actor-network approach to website design. It argues that user experience with a website, like the Australian Asbestos Network site, should be viewed as a collective, distributed phenomenon rather than something solely subjective. The website and its elements, like content, interface design, and user submissions, form a heterogeneous network of human and non-human actors that shape user perceptions and experiences through inscription, formatting, and by prescribing frameworks for interaction. On this view, aesthetic experience with a website emerges from relations throughout the network, not just from within the individual user.
This document summarizes issues related to digital scholarship and publishing born-digital works. It discusses the shift from deep attention suited to print to hyper attention online. Institutions still value print-centric models of scholarship despite opportunities for digital works. Digital works face issues of obsolescence, lack of peer review, and commercialization that challenge their longevity and credibility. The document advocates for documenting digital works thoroughly and using open standards to help works last despite technological changes.
The document summarizes blogs, bloggers, and blogging. It discusses what a blog is, the costs associated with blogging, how blogs have impacted society, how to use a blog, and why the presenter uses a blog. The presenter aims to agitate and disturb people with their blog rather than just provide information.
The document summarizes key topics from an Enterprise 2.0 workshop, including definitions of knowledge management, knowledge processes in learning organizations, and contrasts between Web 1.0 and 2.0 technologies. Various Web 2.0 tools are also described such as wikis, blogs, forums, social bookmarking, social networking, and RSS feeds. The goal of knowledge management is to transform organizations into learning organizations by creating, acquiring, transferring knowledge and modifying behaviors.
The artof of knowledge engineering, or: knowledge engineering of artGuus Schreiber
The document discusses the evolution of knowledge engineering from a small research community to widespread use on the web. It notes that while ontologies are now seen as crucial for information integration, our current conceptualizations of classes and properties may not be sufficient to understand the complexity of the web. The document also discusses challenges in ontology alignment and semantic search, and argues that combining detailed semantic modeling with statistical techniques shows promise as the field moves forward.
Semantics for visual resources: use cases from e-cultureGuus Schreiber
1) The document discusses several use cases involving multimedia from the e-culture domain that require semantic technologies to enable searches across different media types.
2) It analyzes challenges in searching for related images based on time period or style and finding paintings with similar subjects.
3) Bridging the semantic gap between low-level visual features and high-level concepts is difficult and requires techniques like concept detectors trained on visual features as well as linking visual ontologies to semantic ones.
You might want to know more about the User Experience field. You might be interested in finding out what resources, skills and abilities are relevant. You might just want to see a passionate UX professional give a 10 minute overview on how to get started!
The document compares the views of Anderson and Weller on open learning. They both see open learning as initially focusing on access but now facilitated by technology like Web 2.0. An open scholar uses new technologies, has an online identity, networks, and encourages critique. Weller sees openness as shaped by ease of sharing and sees two types of open educational resources. Anderson sees three overlapping learning environments and emphasizes relationships over information. Both see adoption of open scholar characteristics as engendering lifelong learning.
The document provides an overview of integrating 21st century literacies into the curriculum. It discusses the convergence of multiple literacies and how examples integrate concepts from informal learning practices. Emerging research on digital media and learning is presented on topics like credibility evaluation. The document envisions possible futures with more emphasis on critical thinking, creation, communication and lifelong learning. Literacies are seen as socially situated and involving skills beyond the classroom.
This document discusses the field of web science and issues related to applying it to digital heritage collections. It defines web science as the interdisciplinary study of social behavior on the web, the technologies that enable it, and their interactions. Key topics covered include social computing, privacy, economics, universal access, and technical challenges like information retrieval and vocabulary alignment. The document also outlines the author's work applying semantic web and linked data principles to improve access to cultural heritage collections on the digital web.
1) Data visualization is the process of transforming abstract data into visual representations to help people understand relationships and patterns. It has a long history dating back to early pioneers like William Playfair and Jacques Bertin.
2) There is a prevalence of data visualization today due to the huge amount of data being generated by databases and social media. The process typically involves parsing, filtering, representing, mining, refining, and interacting with data.
3) Data visualization is significant because it lowers barriers to understanding large and complex data, and is an important 21st century skill for citizenship as data proliferates.
Dada and 1960s media art like Fluxus disrupted traditional art forms. Marcel Duchamp created readymades like "Fountain" that questioned what qualified as art. The Situationists advocated suppressing art and critiqued capitalist society's division of producers and consumers. Guy Debord wrote "The Society of the Spectacle" describing how life under capitalism had been reduced to meaningless consumption and spectacle. Key Situationist concepts included the derive (drifting through urban areas), psychogeography (how environments influence emotions), and detournement (subverting existing cultural works).
This document summarizes the history and strategies of feminist counter cinema and feminist video art from the 1970s to the 1990s. It discusses how feminist films addressed women as viewers through techniques like disjunction between image and voice, new narrative spaces, and new forms of address. It provides examples of influential feminist films and videos from each decade. It also profiles the pioneering artist Lynn Hershman Leeson and her work across different mediums including performance, interactive media, photography, video, and feature films.
The document summarizes discussions from a Mobilities Seminar on mobile media, technology, and design for social change. It discusses locative media projects that use mobile technologies to augment urban spaces and alter how people navigate and experience cities. It provides examples of locative media art projects that have used mobile phones, text messages, and movement tracking to create interactive experiences across physical urban spaces.
Aquest és el treball de recerca que vaig finalitzar a 2n de Batxillerat , tema que vaig escollir motivada per la carrera que volia estudiar i que actualment estic fent.
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) covers all the fields of engineering and science: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Thermodynamics, Structural Engineering, Control Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Fluid Mechanics, Nanotechnology, Simulators, Web-based Learning, Remote Laboratories, Engineering Design Methods, Education Research, Students' Satisfaction and Motivation, Global Projects, and Assessment…. And many more.
Sophie is an open-source project funded by the Mellon Foundation that aims to transform reading and writing in screen-based environments. It has 5 developers, 2 designers, and 1 visionary working on it. The project uses an architecture with a small core separating form and content, and focuses on usability with features like minimizing mouse travel and no modal dialogs. A soft release is planned for September 15, 2006 on the website Sophieproject.org.
This document introduces Sophie's Foundation, software for creating networked books. It allows authors to add temporality and interactivity to books by creating spaces for readers and writers to interact. The software aims to make the expressive powers of computers available to all users, not just programmers. It seeks to free up creativity and make the social experience of reading more concrete by allowing communication between authors and readers across time and space. The document provides information on Sophie's interface and features and concludes by encouraging users to create demonstration books on the Sophie platform.
The document discusses several film movements focused on realism, including Italian Neo-Realism, French New Wave, and Dogme 95. Italian Neo-Realism aimed to turn reality into stories rather than create fictional stories about reality. French New Wave films emphasized location shooting and handheld camera work. Dogme 95 was a pledge created by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg with strict rules including on-location shooting with available light and handheld cameras to strive for realism. Several films are highlighted as examples of these movements toward capturing reality.
This document provides an overview of different research cultures and methods in arts, design, and science. It discusses key differences in phenomena of study, appropriate methods, and cultural values between science, humanities, and design research. Design research is depicted as iterative process of framing problems, responding to hunches, hypothesizing, planning, acting through experimenting and prototyping, observing, and evaluating. The document also introduces the concept of "world building" methodology and provides an example of merging the cities of Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro.
Scholars in the Open: Networked Identities vs. Institutional IdentitiesBonnie Stewart
The public presentation of self is identity work, but the networked practices by which scholars build a name and reputation for their work differ from the practices and strategies used - and recognized - within the academy. This presentation explores Bonnie Stewart's dissertation research into how networked scholars circulate identity and reputation in networked publics.
Being an Open Scholar in a Connected WorldStian Håklev
This document discusses the benefits of open scholarship in a connected world. It argues that open access to research articles makes information more accessible to broader audiences, including the general public and students. When data and research notes are openly shared online, it can enable unexpected reuse and collaboration. However, the current academic publishing and reward systems may not fully incentivize open scholarship. The document calls for exploring new models of peer review, metrics of impact, and ways of publishing research to make the scholarly process more transparent and collaborative.
Keynote presentation at the Lita Forum, Albuquerque. Research and learning practices are enacted in technology rich environments. New tools support digital workflows and the volume and variety of research and learning outputs are growing. Libraries are working to support these new environments and to connect their services to them.
Presented at the Centre for Research in the Social Professions [CRiSP] Symposium, Friday 15th November 2013, IT Sligo: MOOCing about: digitised pedagogies – a point of no return?
Centre for Research in the Social Professions [CRiSP] Symposium; Friday 15th November 2013
Here, the presenter relates how she discovered Twitter as a tool for professional networking and development and how it opened up new ways of learning and new professional opportunities.
Using first hand experience, the presenter takes us on a tour that encompasses a range of new theories and practices including, social networking, personal learning networks [PLN], personal knowledge management [PKM], digital literacies and digital age learning theories - connectivism, rhizomatic learning and heutagogy
Digital Humanities at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
Digital methodologies and new media are changing the landscape of research and teaching in the humanities. Scholars can now computationally analyze entire corpora of texts or preserve and share materials through digital archives. Students can engage in authentic applied research linking literary texts to place or study Shakespeare in a virtual Globe Theater. Such developments collectively fall under the name “digital humanities,” which includes the humanities and humanistic social sciences and has largely been characterized by computing-intensive, collaborative, interdisciplinary projects at research institutions. Faculty, staff and students at small liberal arts colleges, however, are making significant contributions to the digital humanities, especially by engaging undergraduates both in and out of the classroom. Rebecca Frost Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), will introduce the digital humanities landscape and share examples from small liberal arts colleges.
Emerging Trends in Scholarly Communication and the coming Decade of Open AccessLeslie Chan
This document discusses emerging trends in open access scholarly communications over the coming decade. It outlines key issues like changing research contexts in the digital environment, tensions between openness and quality/impact measures, and the need to rethink how impact is measured. Open access is presented as important for disseminating research relevant to development. The current system of scholarly publishing is described as dysfunctional, commodifying public knowledge. The document advocates aligning research incentives with open access values and recognizing collaborative outputs from networked scholarship.
Emerging Trends in Scholarly Communication and the coming Decade of Open AccessLeslie Chan
The document discusses emerging trends in open access scholarly communications. It notes that open access is important for disseminating research, especially research relevant to development. Key issues discussed include changing contexts of research discovery and dissemination in the digital environment. Open access provides both philosophical and practical benefits by removing barriers to access. New metrics and forms of scholarly output are needed to better measure impact in open networks. The document advocates aligning incentives and policies to support open practices and networked scholarship.
Virtual Communities: Catalysts for Advancing ScholarshipJohn Butler
The document discusses virtual communities and their role in advancing scholarship. It provides examples of real-life virtual communities like HarvestChoice and EthicShare that were developed to support specific scholarly communities. It describes the development process for EthicShare, a virtual research environment for practical ethics scholars, including assessing community needs, developing content and tools, and engaging the community through iterative design.
Virtual Communities: Catalysts for Advancing ScholarshipJohn Butler
The document discusses virtual communities and their role in advancing scholarship. It provides examples of real-life virtual communities like HarvestChoice and EthicShare that were developed to support specific scholarly communities. It describes the development process for EthicShare, a virtual research environment for practical ethics scholars, including assessing community needs, developing content and tools, and engaging the community through iterative design.
Open Access and Research Communication: The Perspective of Force11Maryann Martone
Presentation at the National Federation of Advanced Information Services Workshop: Open Access to Published Research: Current Status and Future Directions, Philadelphia, PA USA November 22, 2013
Evaluating Digital Scholarship, Alison ByerlyNITLE
While a number of professional organizations have produced valuable guidelines for evaluation of digital work, many colleges and universities have yet to establish clear protocols and practices for applying them. Alison Byerly, College Professor and former Provost and Executive Vice President at Middlebury College, who has co-led workshops on evaluating digital scholarship at the MLA convention, will review major issues to be considered in the evaluation of digital work, such as: presentation of medium-specific materials, documentation of multiple roles in collaborative work, changing forms of peer review, and identification of appropriate reviewers. She will then talk briefly about how these issues can best be approached from the perspective of the candidate who wishes to present his or her work effectively to review committees, as well as from the perspective of colleagues who wish to provide a well-informed evaluation of such work.
Scholarly workflow and personal digital archiving interviewsSmiljana Antonijevic
This document summarizes findings from interviews with scholars about their personal archiving practices and challenges. Key findings include:
1) Scholars focus on preserving end products like publications rather than research workflows and traces.
2) Lack of training, standards, and support leads to inconsistent and incomplete personal archiving practices.
3) Current reward systems prioritize publications over research processes, influencing what scholars preserve.
Towards collaboration at scale: Libraries, the social and the technicallisld
Libraries are now supporting research and learning behaviors in data rich network environments. This presentation looks at some examples focusing on how an emphasis on individual systems needs to give way to a broader view of process, workflow and behaviors.
It also discusses how this environment creates a demand for collaboration at scale among libraries.
Building a Collaboration for Digital PublishingHarriett Green
Presentation for the "New Collaborations in Digital Publishing" panel at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) 2015 meeting.
The Digital Academic: The opportunities for scholarly communication, discussi...Andy Tattersall
The document discusses the changing landscape of academic scholarship in the digital age. New opportunities include open access publishing, altmetrics, research data management, and using social media and online platforms to collaborate and disseminate work more broadly. While technologies offer benefits, academics are advised to thoughtfully consider how and why to adopt new tools. Overall, digital tools can help increase the impact and visibility of research if used strategically.
FORCE11: Future of Research Communications and e-ScholarshipMaryann Martone
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The document summarizes notes from the Computers in Libraries 2012 conference. It discusses keynotes on creating innovative libraries and strategic planning goals. Notes cover trends in library services like meeting users wherever they are, enriching campus programs, and ensuring equitable access to knowledge. The conference reinforced ideas like using technology initiatives, capturing ideas, and providing opportunities for users to create content.
Introduction to a workshop on:
Social Media For Researchers
Maximizing your personal impact
Alan Cann
School of Biological Sciences
University of Leicester
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The document discusses design challenges and interventions for the iWitness website to support two goals for users: 1) To engage archive materials with depth and sophistication, becoming mini-experts, and 2) To develop reflective understanding of their own position in relation to testimonies. It identifies 5 key moments for interventions: the first visit, return, testimony viewing, activity completion, and activity design. It provides examples of connections and suggestions for short, medium, and long-term interventions including tutorials, relevant connections, tracking user activities, and a user workspace.
The document discusses the need for new strategies and capacities to meet the changing demands of the 21st century world. It introduces the Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML) and its mission to empower students through media to be critical, competent citizens and scholars for the 21st century. The IML offers courses, programs, projects and collaborations focused on new media literacy.
This document introduces Sophie's Foundation, software for creating networked books. It allows authors to add temporality and interactivity to books by creating spaces for readers and writers to interact. The software aims to make the expressive powers of computers available without programming skills. It seeks to make the social experience of reading more concrete by allowing communication between authors and readers across time and space. The document provides information on Sophie's interface and includes video tutorials and instructions for creating books on the Sophie platform.
Gesamtkunstwerk refers to a total work of art that brings together all art forms. Richard Wagner coined the term in 1849 to describe his vision for opera. In the 1960s, artists began experimenting with new media and viewing environments that incorporated multiple projections and screens to expand visual horizons and intensify the viewing experience. Pioneering artists like Stan Vanderbeek, Ray and Charles Eames, Andy Warhol, and Bill Viola created immersive multimedia installations that blurred boundaries between viewer and artwork.
The document discusses various light and media installations around the world that turn buildings and cityscapes into interactive works of art. It mentions projects by artists such as Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Krzysztof Wodiczko that have projected images and text onto buildings to transform and question the spaces. Examples of installations mentioned include SPOTS in Berlin, Blickenlights in Berlin, and Body Movies in Rotterdam.
The document provides an overview of the history of visual technologies and their applications from the 1820s to modern day. It references key figures like Joseph Niepce, Eadweard Muybridge, Étienne-Jules Marey, Eakins, and Paul Pfeiffer who pioneered techniques in photography, motion studies, and time-lapse photography. The document also includes over 100 images related to these innovations in capturing and representing movement over time.
Visual argumentation refers to using visual elements like images, graphics, and design to present a premise, reasoning, and conclusion. Analyzing visual arguments requires identifying elements within images, understanding their context, establishing a consistent interpretation, and examining how perspectives change over time. The document discusses various theories and approaches for analyzing visual rhetoric, including semiotics, cultural studies, media studies, information visualization, and visual tropes. It provides examples of how logos and pathos can be conveyed visually and lists several key references on visual rhetoric.
Visual argumentation refers to using visual elements like images, graphics, and design to present a premise, reasoning, and conclusion. Analyzing visual arguments requires identifying elements within images, understanding their context, establishing a consistent interpretation, and examining how perspectives change over time. The document discusses various theories and approaches for analyzing visual rhetoric, including semiotics, cultural studies, media studies, information visualization, and visual tropes. It provides examples of how logos and pathos can be conveyed visually and lists several key references on visual rhetoric.
The document discusses different modes of scholarly multimedia, including telling (storytelling), mapping and visualization, gaming, and immersive experiences. It provides examples for each mode, such as interactive maps, alternate reality games, modified video games, and virtual environments. The overall focus is on how new media allows for increased connectivity, collaboration, and new ways of researching, writing, presenting and publishing information beyond traditional print formats.
- The document discusses integrating multimedia across college curriculums, mandated in 2006 through a collaboration between the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Institute for Multimedia Literacy.
- It outlines principles for multimedia integration, including deep integration of multimedia labs and concepts, an expanded definition of literacy, and equal emphasis on critical skills and production.
- Sample classes that have incorporated multimedia are described, along with the multimedia equipment and software available for student use.
The document outlines a multimedia design institute that brings together design-based learning, critical pedagogy, and community-based organizations to create multimedia projects for social change. The institute focuses on collaborative and participatory projects aimed at mutual learning and transformation. It has partnered with various organizations to produce games and educational materials on issues like the death penalty, healthy relationships, and media arts and practice.
This document discusses new media concepts like integration, hypermedia, interactivity, immersion, and narrativity. It also covers the rhetoric of media, including the definition of rhetoric and its key elements - logos, pathos, ethos, kairos, audience, and decorum. Finally, it lists three examples of multimedia genres and projects: Argumentative 360 Degrees, Sonic Memorial Project, and Picture Projects.
The document summarizes a presentation about designing virtual learning spaces. It discusses conceptual frameworks for understanding how infrastructures shape experiences and interactions. It then provides examples of virtual spaces created for classrooms, student projects, and faculty research. These included reconfigurable classrooms, interactive syllabi, and spaces for synchronous events and presentations. The goal was to enhance teaching practices through new media literacy and allow unexpected experiences.
The USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy offers several programs and projects focused on incorporating multimedia into education. Its key programs include an Honors in Multimedia Scholarship, Multimedia in the Core curriculum, and Multimedia Across the College support. Projects include a journal, learning spaces in Second Life, and a Digital Educators Consortium of local colleges. The Institute also helps redesign large enrollment classes and supports K-12 initiatives.
The document discusses new forms of literacy required in the digital age. It introduces the concept of multimedia literacy, which combines traditional literacies with media, digital, and technological literacies. It then outlines the University of Southern California's Institute for Multimedia Literacy's educational programs which aim to teach these new literacies through courses, workshops, and research programs that take a multidisciplinary approach.
The document discusses the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California, which was founded in 1998 to integrate multimedia literacy into the university curriculum. It received initial funding from the Atlantic Philanthropies to develop multimedia courses across departments and a Masters in Teaching program. The Institute's goals were to reinterpret literacy in a digital age, incorporate multimedia pedagogy university-wide, and drive a broader paradigm shift. Key challenges included the large workload, scaling training, recruiting faculty, and driving a shift in educational paradigms.
The document discusses the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC and its programs related to multimedia scholarship. It describes an honors program in multimedia scholarship for students, efforts to incorporate multimedia into core courses and across the college, a journal on culture and technology, and use of spaces in Second Life for learning. It also discusses how students' media skills and needs are changing and the need for new teaching models to address these changes.
The document describes the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California and its programs. The Institute focuses on developing multimedia literacy across the university curriculum. It offers an Honors in Multimedia Scholarship program, works to incorporate multimedia into core curriculum courses, and supports faculty across the college in transforming teaching with new technologies and pedagogies. The Institute also maintains a learning space in Second Life for experimental and immersive teaching experiences.
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Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
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This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
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• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
4. We are moving away from a transmission model of
communication that presumes a sender and
receiver…
…to defining systems and information architectures which
are participatory, collaborative and extensible…
Why an “ecology”?
20. users
data process
author
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, in Expressive Processing
21. profile
-- Google yourself
-- think about your name
-- consider your image
-- get another email account
-- diverse components:
public/private
22. profile
“One of the things the digital era affords us as scholars is
the ability to both deliver to a wider audience, and develop
a reputation independent of institutional structures.”
39. Anne Galloway
Purse Lip Square Jaw
www.purselipsquare jaw.org
40. blogging
“For me, it comes down to making things public in a way that
is part an experiment in a kind of open-source design
practice, part as a way to manage a torrent of ephemeral
material, snippets, thoughts, sketches, cobbled together
prototypes, Shandy-esque projects that start and then stop
and then start and then divert — a collection and idea
circulation machine.”
- Julian Bleecker
50. thank you!
Holly Willis
hwillis@cinema.usc.edu
Elizabeth Ramsey
eramsey@cinema.usc.edu
Editor's Notes
This kind of discussion is often couched in terms of branding. Given an increasingly competitive job market, and a culture understood in terms of the corporation, we're often told that we need to "brand" ourselves. In some ways this is true. A "brand" is an image, it's recognizable, and it is designed to be distinct. However, the term brings with it the highly competitive connotation that is a part of corporate culture, and while many would argue that it is also core to academic culture, I prefer to think of what new scholars should consider doing is building a research ecology, part of which faces inward, and centers on creating smart ways to harness the incredible amounts of information now at our fingertips, and part of which faces outward and is designed to build community, form networks, and share.
So I prefer to think about this endeavor less as creating a brand and more as creating a "research ecology."But why an "ecology"?Because this process of creating a research ecology is one that rethinks traditional modes of scholarly research, communication and production through the impact and affordances of digital tools generally, and social media tools specifically. This process of rethinking, however, is not simply one of remediation, whereby traditional research and authoring methods are merely repeated through the assistance of new tools, although it often appears as such. Instead, the process is one of reinvention.
Instead, the process is one of reinvention. Scholarly communication and production are not merely enhanced, expanded or made easier via digital tools; they are transformed, often dramatically, and yet many of the outcomes of this transformation are certainly not new to most of us: they center on sharing, participation, collaboration and networked interactions.We are moving away from a linear model of communication, one that presumes a sender and receiver, to a model that's centered on defining systems and information architectures, ones that are participatory, collaborative and extensive.Scholarly communication and production are not merely enhanced, expanded or made easier via digital tools; they are transformed, often dramatically, and yet many of the outcomes of this transformation are certainly not new to most of us: they center on sharing, participation, collaboration and networked interactions.
If we look at the traditional model of scholarship, it is centered on creating legitimation; it's about controlling access; it's about careful dissemination, preservation and curation.
However, with new media, this model gets remained. It now includes notions of reputation; of community; it's about sharing; it's also very dynamic and ever-changing, and it's collaborative. Christine Borgman who is a professor of information studies at UCLA, writes about this in her book, Scholarship in the Digital Age.
The notion of the digital research ecology underscores the transformative aspects by taking into account information-based paradigms that function nicely as metaphors in articulating the elements of – and the need for – an ecology. One of these notions is that of the algorithm. In his book Gaming: On Algorithmic Culture, Alex Galloway defines an algorithm as a “machine for the motion of parts.” He goes on to describe video games as an essentially activemedium, by which he means a medium “whose very materiality moves and restructures itself.” Galloway’s book is an often eloquent examination of video games as a cultural form, but for my purposes, his text offers a useful vocabulary for a set of computer-based actions that contribute to a new model for a scholarly practice similarly grounded on algorithmic unfolding and machinic processes. Following this lead, we should consider relinquishing scholarly practices of research and communication based on representation, linearity and discourse and move toward an information-based model, one in which research and scholarly communication function algorithmically, with the researcher becoming a curator and designer of systems, and the reader/viewer becoming a user of those systems. Alex Galloway, Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2006).
How do we do that? I believe that Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s recent book, Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies, offers one method. In the book, Wardrip-Fruin uses the term “expressive processing” to designate the ways in which the former work of “authoring” is now really a process of “defining the rules for system behavior” (Wardrip-Fruin 3). Authoring is not necessarily analyzing and synthesizing the results of research in essay- and book-form, but now includes the act of curating data flows; we act as data jockeys, crafting systems and processes through which to organize, manage and then manifest and share these flows.
At ISC, you are very lucky to be in the midst of amazing projects investigating the future of scholarship. The Labyrinth Project
MIT UC Press, Duke
Scalar enables users to assemble media clips and images from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise.
• digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and its impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. We welcome projects that have the ability to build bridges between more and less technologically-aware audiences by offering rich and relevant new frames for thinking about information and communication technology. digitalculturebooks is an experimental publishing strategy with a strong research component. By making our content available in print and online, we intend to: * develop an open and participatory publishing model that adheres to the highest scholarly standards of review and documentation; * study the economics of Open Access publishing; * collect data about how reading habits and preferences vary across communities and genres; * build community around our content by fostering new modes of collaboration in which the traditional relationship between reader and writer breaks down in creative and productive ways
Okay: so that is our context. Now, what are some of the specific tactics that you can deploy to imagine your online presence as a graduate student?TRANSITION
So the first step is in considering how you build a profile. 1) Think about your name. Look to see if there are other people with a similar name doing similar work. Steve Anderson: 2) Think about your image. What kind of image is appropriate? Different images in different spaces? - One thing to think about here is the relationship between private and public; some argue that there nothing is “private” any more, but you need to consider how you want to engage with colleagues, friends, family members and a broader public. How will you cultivate the identity you’d like to have with each of these groups?
One of the things the digital era affords us as scholars is the ability to both deliver to a wider audience, and develop a reputation independent of institutional structures.- Key here is to consider your identity apart from the institution where you reside.
Consider who you are and how you interact.Form communities; connect with people who can assist you.
Part of what you’re doing in this new landscape is creating an identity, akin to what you do with social media around your social identity. You need to think about the ways in which you want your personal to appear: what kind of scholar are you? What are the kinds of contributions you can make to your field/Academia.edu is a Facebook-like social networking platform for scholarsLinkedIn is a social networking site with a focus on job recruiting.Mendeley is a social reference management site. You may already be using it to store your citations and help write your research papers, but it also has some great social features. You can list or upload your research publications, provide a brief academic CV and biographical information, and participate in a group. Mendeley groups allow you to share and discover new research in your fieldAbout.Me lets you gather all of your profile information into a single place, extremely easily and quickly.
Academia.edu: fairly straightforward
About.me: super easy!
Creating a website: should include a bio, current CV, your research interests; publications or links to publications.This is your continuous presence, and you should maintain it.You’ll need an internet service provider, a content management system, and a domain name.Show wordpress site creationShow Google Sites creation
Another way to think about building your identity is through providing content: Blogs are a space where academics and scholars engaged in new ideas, begin discussions on research findings, and gain feedback on pre-published materials. Blogging gives academics the opportunity to expand the reach of their scholarship by presenting their work to a larger community. This builds opportunities for collaboration and potentially new publishing outputs. Additionally, blogging of research can provide academics with open discussion about their research, a form of interactive peer review that moves beyond the closed models currently supported in traditional publishing models
Choose your topic
(1) write about things that are useful to their audience , (2) write great headlines, (3) make blog posts scannable by incorporating headings and subheadings, and (4) write in a common-sense style
Anne Galloway started her blog as a graduate student in 2002. Titled “Purse Lip Square Jaw,” with a subhead, “Connecting Material, Spatial and Cultural Practices,” Galloway effectively became a go-to source for new technologies and their impact on culture. The strengths of her blog included her ongoing commitment to a topic; her ability to meld the gathering of information with astute analysis of it (it’s not enough to merely aggregate!); and the clear evidence that her career, even as a student, was moving forward through publications, conference presentations and eventually, job talks.
“For me, it comes down to making things public in a way that is part an experiment in a kind of open-source design practice, part as a way to manage a torrent of ephemeral material, snippets, thoughts, sketches, cobbled together prototypes, Shandy-esque projects that start and then stop and then start and then divert — a collection and idea circulation machine.”
Have you given a presentation at a conference or colloquium that you're exceptionally proud of? Chances are that you also spent a good amount of time making professional slides. Archiving your slides online can give people early glimpses into your research. It can also help maintain your active research presence after the presentation and build interest in your future publications. Get the most out of your slides!