What does it mean to be a scholar in the digital era within the context of neoliberal institutions? In this presentation, Jessie Daniels explains some of the implications.
Reimagining Scholarly Communication for the Public GoodJessie Daniels
This document summarizes Jessie Daniels' presentation about reimagining scholarly communication for the public good. Daniels argues that academics can no longer remain isolated in the "ivory tower" and must demonstrate their public worth. New digital technologies have changed how scholarship is conducted, published, accessed, and measured. Scholarly work is becoming more open, collaborative, activist-oriented, and publicly engaged. Daniels provides examples of how her own work is embracing these changes through open online workshops and multimedia publications to make scholarship more accessible and impactful for public audiences.
In this overview, I discuss the changing landscape of being a scholar in an era of digital technology, open access publishing, and shifting scholarly practices. At the end are several links to resources for the workshop.
Introduction: Projects, Partnerships and Collaborations: Service Models for ...Mike Furlough
Introductory slides and remarks for the panel "Projects, Partnerships and Collaborations: Service Models for Digital Scholarship" held at the 2012 Digital Library Federation Forum.
The document summarizes a presentation about creating a Virtual Learning Commons (VLC) to support distance learners and build an online community. It discusses how Eastern University has a growing population of distance and international students who lack interaction. The VLC would integrate the university's online resources and use Web 2.0 tools like wikis, blogs, and social networking to create virtual places for classes, library services, accessing resources, and meeting others. It describes a year-long experiment opening the VLC to the broader community that included student workers, volunteers, alumni, and international friends.
The stakeholder's meeting covered updates on various OPLIN services including databases, digitization hubs, ebooks, websites, SMS notifications, filtering, and email. Key dates were noted around federal initiatives like ConnectED and the E-Rate Modernization Order. Bandwidth targets for schools and libraries were discussed. The OPLIN board and staff were introduced and the content advisory committee was listed. Usage statistics for SMS notifications and OpenDNS were provided. Attendees were invited to request more details in the annual report.
Jankowski Presentation, Scholarly Publishing And The Web, Final Version, 24fe...Nick Jankowski
The document summarizes Nicholas W. Jankowski's presentation on scholarly publishing and the web. It discusses how the internet enables new forms of added value for scholarly content like hyperlinks, updates, and interactive features. Examples are given of how scholarly articles could be presented in the future by incorporating multimedia, commentary, and collaboration. The need for theoretical perspectives on stability and change in academic publishing is also mentioned.
The document provides an overview of digital research at the British Library. It discusses how digital tools and large datasets are transforming research in the humanities and social sciences. Key points include:
- Tools like Google Ngram Viewer and text analysis allow researchers to analyze millions of digitized texts and better understand cultural trends over time.
- Projects like "Reading the Riots" use social media data and computational methods to analyze the spread of information during times of crisis.
- Quantitative analysis of digitized books and newspapers enables new perspectives on a large scale not previously possible.
- The digital humanities represents a shift in how interdisciplinary collaboration and computer-assisted methods are used in research.
- The
Reimagining Scholarly Communication for the Public GoodJessie Daniels
This document summarizes Jessie Daniels' presentation about reimagining scholarly communication for the public good. Daniels argues that academics can no longer remain isolated in the "ivory tower" and must demonstrate their public worth. New digital technologies have changed how scholarship is conducted, published, accessed, and measured. Scholarly work is becoming more open, collaborative, activist-oriented, and publicly engaged. Daniels provides examples of how her own work is embracing these changes through open online workshops and multimedia publications to make scholarship more accessible and impactful for public audiences.
In this overview, I discuss the changing landscape of being a scholar in an era of digital technology, open access publishing, and shifting scholarly practices. At the end are several links to resources for the workshop.
Introduction: Projects, Partnerships and Collaborations: Service Models for ...Mike Furlough
Introductory slides and remarks for the panel "Projects, Partnerships and Collaborations: Service Models for Digital Scholarship" held at the 2012 Digital Library Federation Forum.
The document summarizes a presentation about creating a Virtual Learning Commons (VLC) to support distance learners and build an online community. It discusses how Eastern University has a growing population of distance and international students who lack interaction. The VLC would integrate the university's online resources and use Web 2.0 tools like wikis, blogs, and social networking to create virtual places for classes, library services, accessing resources, and meeting others. It describes a year-long experiment opening the VLC to the broader community that included student workers, volunteers, alumni, and international friends.
The stakeholder's meeting covered updates on various OPLIN services including databases, digitization hubs, ebooks, websites, SMS notifications, filtering, and email. Key dates were noted around federal initiatives like ConnectED and the E-Rate Modernization Order. Bandwidth targets for schools and libraries were discussed. The OPLIN board and staff were introduced and the content advisory committee was listed. Usage statistics for SMS notifications and OpenDNS were provided. Attendees were invited to request more details in the annual report.
Jankowski Presentation, Scholarly Publishing And The Web, Final Version, 24fe...Nick Jankowski
The document summarizes Nicholas W. Jankowski's presentation on scholarly publishing and the web. It discusses how the internet enables new forms of added value for scholarly content like hyperlinks, updates, and interactive features. Examples are given of how scholarly articles could be presented in the future by incorporating multimedia, commentary, and collaboration. The need for theoretical perspectives on stability and change in academic publishing is also mentioned.
The document provides an overview of digital research at the British Library. It discusses how digital tools and large datasets are transforming research in the humanities and social sciences. Key points include:
- Tools like Google Ngram Viewer and text analysis allow researchers to analyze millions of digitized texts and better understand cultural trends over time.
- Projects like "Reading the Riots" use social media data and computational methods to analyze the spread of information during times of crisis.
- Quantitative analysis of digitized books and newspapers enables new perspectives on a large scale not previously possible.
- The digital humanities represents a shift in how interdisciplinary collaboration and computer-assisted methods are used in research.
- The
The document discusses the concept of Library 2.0 and how libraries are embracing new technologies and encouraging user participation. Some key aspects of Library 2.0 include delivering services to users online through various devices, making resources structured and accessible through APIs, and allowing users to actively participate through user-generated content and collaboration. Examples mentioned include Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube, and how they demonstrate themes of participation, remixing of data, and community.
The document provides information about the Public Services Division of the Thomas G. Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida. It summarizes that the division has 6 librarians, 2 vacancies, 2 A&P staff, and 12 USPS staff. The mission of the division is to assist patrons in finding information, provide access to information and services for orientation, and teach research and lifelong learning skills to students and advance faculty engagement. Areas of responsibility include instruction, reference, distance learning, marketing, government documents, interlibrary loans, course reserves, and collections management. It also provides statistics about the student population at UNF.
This document outlines Elizabeth Losh's work scaling up pedagogical models from small seminars to large, required courses and institutional partnerships. It discusses moving from guest teaching to co-teaching to life-long learning models. Various topics are proposed for interdisciplinary courses, including artifacts showing media/mediation, dwelling remix, networks, and embodiment. The goal is to scrutinize urban inequalities through transnational flows and have students propose design solutions. Old and new media are connected through artifact galleries, archives, and print culture. Unschooling, self-teaching, and DIY models are suggested when faced with unfunded mandates.
Priit Pirsko
Cooperation and Written Heritage
ICARUS-Meeting #19 | 5th co:op partner meeting
29–31 May 2017, The National Archives of Estonia, Nooruse 3, Tartu, Estonia
Beyond Friending: @cunycommons and the Emergence of the Social UniversityMatthew Gold
A MITH Digital Dialogue
Tuesday, November 2, 12:30-1:45
MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135
“Beyond Friending: @cunycommons and the Emergence of the Social University” by Matthew K. Gold
1945 - Vannevar Bush conceptualized the idea of hyperlinked pages, which became the foundation of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee later developed the actual World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN using these ideas.
Online collaboration allows groups to work together in real-time over the Internet using tools like blogs and wikis. Social bookmarking services like del.icio.us allow users to bookmark and share web pages.
Artists and curators now play the role of "cultural context providers", blurring traditional lines and involving users in participatory media projects like agoraxchange. This reflects how artistic production now values collaboration over solitary work.
Scholarship in Abundance: Influence, Engagement & Attention in Scholarly Netw...Bonnie Stewart
In an era of knowledge abundance, scholars have the capacity to distribute and share ideas and artifacts via digital networks, yet networked scholarly engagement often remains unrecognized within institutional spheres of influence. The purpose of this dissertation study is to explore the meanings constructed and enacted within the networked practices of 13 scholars actively engaged in both institutional and networked participatory scholarship. Using ethnographic methods including participant observation, interviews, and document analysis, the study investigates networks as sites of scholarship, with the intent of furthering institutional academia’s understanding of networked practices.
This presentation by Maria Benes, a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was presented at the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute’s Research Forum on Thursday, May 11, 2017. Maria is a 2016-2017 student support grantee of the Institute.
El documento describe las partes importantes de un bloque 0 en un aula virtual, incluyendo secciones de información, comunicación e interacción. La sección de información presenta una guía del curso y la rúbrica de evaluación. La sección de comunicación es donde el tutor se comunica con los estudiantes sobre las tareas y fechas límite. La sección de interacción permite discusiones y compartir experiencias entre el tutor y estudiantes. El bloque 0 es crucial para establecer las expectativas del curso y garantizar el éxito de los estudiantes.
This document discusses the project "The importance of being digital" which explores digital scholarship, methods, and cultures. It outlines the background and research lines of the project, which uses training events to gather empirical data. It then discusses different perspectives on digital scholarship and methods, including pragmatic, political, and epistemological views. It references debates around empirical social sciences and how digital data and devices are reshaping methods and assumptions. The document advocates cultivating "live methods" and notes that inventiveness emerges from the purposes methods are put to, not being intrinsic to methods themselves.
Phillip Bauer is seeking a managerial position where he can maximize efficiency and profitability. He has over 10 years of experience as the general manager of Mezzanine Lounge in Houston, where he managed 15-20 employees, conducted meetings to improve sales, handled personnel issues, and dealt with customer complaints. Bauer also has a background in marketing, coordinating promotions and establishing partnerships to grow sales. He is skilled in areas like budgeting, inventory control, scheduling, and leading employees.
This document certifies that Dagim W. Woldesenbet has successfully completed the requirements for Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching certification. The certification is valid from March 1, 2016 through March 1, 2019 and can be verified online using the provided certificate number and verification code. The certification is signed by Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Systems.
Breguet on Your iPad - What's the point of using an app for your business?Julien Perez
This document discusses the benefits of having a digital magazine in addition to a print magazine. It notes that tablets are becoming a more popular way for the target audience to consume content compared to smartphones. Creating a digital magazine allows the content to reach more potential customers and leads at a low cost, and it can provide an interactive experience that print cannot. In the end, promoting the digital magazine on iPad may help boost business.
This paper explores the tensions between urban and youth development in the information age so as to critically reflect on the rights of urban youth to reorient their socio-technological surroundings, and with it their own life course. Findings from two case studies of NYC youth are drawn on to consider both a ‘right to the city’ and ‘to research’ as deeply intertwined ontological and epistemological movements that reconfigure the production of space, knowledge and media in the smart city. As NYCs economy becomes oriented toward high-tech and creative industries, public investments are made to recruit and accommodate a highly educated, largely white, and supposedly more creative class of workers. Marginalized and poor youth are meanwhile segregated and largely sorted out of this ‘new’ economy. At a more intimate scale of development, apps like Uber shape public mobility, companies like News Corp equip public schools with educational media, and daily communication is largely facilitated by privately owned platforms and networks. The result is a geography of youth development that increasingly takes place in the proprietary cross-hairs of smart urbanism’s creative destruction. This paper unpacks two youth-based projects intended to shift this dynamic: one that developed an open-source social network and one that maintains a community-based WiFi network. Together, these projects help illustrate how broader calls for rights ‘to the city’ and ‘to research’ play out in the practical yet powerful ways youth are remaking the social, material, and digital configuration of the smart city.
Duncan Ryckaert is a Belgian national born in 1991 who has studied and worked in information technology, computer security, and network administration. He has experience in PHP, MySQL, C#, Java, Adobe InDesign, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery, and Python. His work history includes positions at Pharma Consulting & Industries, Apple, and Crea Domotics, and he has obtained certifications from Vasco, Cisco, and Synatra West Kortrijk. Currently he is a student of Applied Informatics at HOWEST Brugge specializing in computer and cyber crime.
The document discusses the evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and the problems with representing meaning. It introduces semantic web as representing things rather than just documents using semantic annotations in formats like RDFa, microformats and microdata. Linked data allows complex queries across a web of data by embedding semantic annotations and using common schemas like Schema.org. Major companies are now building knowledge graphs to represent structured data from sources on a linked open web.
The document discusses the concept of Library 2.0 and how libraries are embracing new technologies and encouraging user participation. Some key aspects of Library 2.0 include delivering services to users online through various devices, making resources structured and accessible through APIs, and allowing users to actively participate through user-generated content and collaboration. Examples mentioned include Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube, and how they demonstrate themes of participation, remixing of data, and community.
The document provides information about the Public Services Division of the Thomas G. Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida. It summarizes that the division has 6 librarians, 2 vacancies, 2 A&P staff, and 12 USPS staff. The mission of the division is to assist patrons in finding information, provide access to information and services for orientation, and teach research and lifelong learning skills to students and advance faculty engagement. Areas of responsibility include instruction, reference, distance learning, marketing, government documents, interlibrary loans, course reserves, and collections management. It also provides statistics about the student population at UNF.
This document outlines Elizabeth Losh's work scaling up pedagogical models from small seminars to large, required courses and institutional partnerships. It discusses moving from guest teaching to co-teaching to life-long learning models. Various topics are proposed for interdisciplinary courses, including artifacts showing media/mediation, dwelling remix, networks, and embodiment. The goal is to scrutinize urban inequalities through transnational flows and have students propose design solutions. Old and new media are connected through artifact galleries, archives, and print culture. Unschooling, self-teaching, and DIY models are suggested when faced with unfunded mandates.
Priit Pirsko
Cooperation and Written Heritage
ICARUS-Meeting #19 | 5th co:op partner meeting
29–31 May 2017, The National Archives of Estonia, Nooruse 3, Tartu, Estonia
Beyond Friending: @cunycommons and the Emergence of the Social UniversityMatthew Gold
A MITH Digital Dialogue
Tuesday, November 2, 12:30-1:45
MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135
“Beyond Friending: @cunycommons and the Emergence of the Social University” by Matthew K. Gold
1945 - Vannevar Bush conceptualized the idea of hyperlinked pages, which became the foundation of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee later developed the actual World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN using these ideas.
Online collaboration allows groups to work together in real-time over the Internet using tools like blogs and wikis. Social bookmarking services like del.icio.us allow users to bookmark and share web pages.
Artists and curators now play the role of "cultural context providers", blurring traditional lines and involving users in participatory media projects like agoraxchange. This reflects how artistic production now values collaboration over solitary work.
Scholarship in Abundance: Influence, Engagement & Attention in Scholarly Netw...Bonnie Stewart
In an era of knowledge abundance, scholars have the capacity to distribute and share ideas and artifacts via digital networks, yet networked scholarly engagement often remains unrecognized within institutional spheres of influence. The purpose of this dissertation study is to explore the meanings constructed and enacted within the networked practices of 13 scholars actively engaged in both institutional and networked participatory scholarship. Using ethnographic methods including participant observation, interviews, and document analysis, the study investigates networks as sites of scholarship, with the intent of furthering institutional academia’s understanding of networked practices.
This presentation by Maria Benes, a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was presented at the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute’s Research Forum on Thursday, May 11, 2017. Maria is a 2016-2017 student support grantee of the Institute.
El documento describe las partes importantes de un bloque 0 en un aula virtual, incluyendo secciones de información, comunicación e interacción. La sección de información presenta una guía del curso y la rúbrica de evaluación. La sección de comunicación es donde el tutor se comunica con los estudiantes sobre las tareas y fechas límite. La sección de interacción permite discusiones y compartir experiencias entre el tutor y estudiantes. El bloque 0 es crucial para establecer las expectativas del curso y garantizar el éxito de los estudiantes.
This document discusses the project "The importance of being digital" which explores digital scholarship, methods, and cultures. It outlines the background and research lines of the project, which uses training events to gather empirical data. It then discusses different perspectives on digital scholarship and methods, including pragmatic, political, and epistemological views. It references debates around empirical social sciences and how digital data and devices are reshaping methods and assumptions. The document advocates cultivating "live methods" and notes that inventiveness emerges from the purposes methods are put to, not being intrinsic to methods themselves.
Phillip Bauer is seeking a managerial position where he can maximize efficiency and profitability. He has over 10 years of experience as the general manager of Mezzanine Lounge in Houston, where he managed 15-20 employees, conducted meetings to improve sales, handled personnel issues, and dealt with customer complaints. Bauer also has a background in marketing, coordinating promotions and establishing partnerships to grow sales. He is skilled in areas like budgeting, inventory control, scheduling, and leading employees.
This document certifies that Dagim W. Woldesenbet has successfully completed the requirements for Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching certification. The certification is valid from March 1, 2016 through March 1, 2019 and can be verified online using the provided certificate number and verification code. The certification is signed by Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Systems.
Breguet on Your iPad - What's the point of using an app for your business?Julien Perez
This document discusses the benefits of having a digital magazine in addition to a print magazine. It notes that tablets are becoming a more popular way for the target audience to consume content compared to smartphones. Creating a digital magazine allows the content to reach more potential customers and leads at a low cost, and it can provide an interactive experience that print cannot. In the end, promoting the digital magazine on iPad may help boost business.
This paper explores the tensions between urban and youth development in the information age so as to critically reflect on the rights of urban youth to reorient their socio-technological surroundings, and with it their own life course. Findings from two case studies of NYC youth are drawn on to consider both a ‘right to the city’ and ‘to research’ as deeply intertwined ontological and epistemological movements that reconfigure the production of space, knowledge and media in the smart city. As NYCs economy becomes oriented toward high-tech and creative industries, public investments are made to recruit and accommodate a highly educated, largely white, and supposedly more creative class of workers. Marginalized and poor youth are meanwhile segregated and largely sorted out of this ‘new’ economy. At a more intimate scale of development, apps like Uber shape public mobility, companies like News Corp equip public schools with educational media, and daily communication is largely facilitated by privately owned platforms and networks. The result is a geography of youth development that increasingly takes place in the proprietary cross-hairs of smart urbanism’s creative destruction. This paper unpacks two youth-based projects intended to shift this dynamic: one that developed an open-source social network and one that maintains a community-based WiFi network. Together, these projects help illustrate how broader calls for rights ‘to the city’ and ‘to research’ play out in the practical yet powerful ways youth are remaking the social, material, and digital configuration of the smart city.
Duncan Ryckaert is a Belgian national born in 1991 who has studied and worked in information technology, computer security, and network administration. He has experience in PHP, MySQL, C#, Java, Adobe InDesign, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery, and Python. His work history includes positions at Pharma Consulting & Industries, Apple, and Crea Domotics, and he has obtained certifications from Vasco, Cisco, and Synatra West Kortrijk. Currently he is a student of Applied Informatics at HOWEST Brugge specializing in computer and cyber crime.
The document discusses the evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and the problems with representing meaning. It introduces semantic web as representing things rather than just documents using semantic annotations in formats like RDFa, microformats and microdata. Linked data allows complex queries across a web of data by embedding semantic annotations and using common schemas like Schema.org. Major companies are now building knowledge graphs to represent structured data from sources on a linked open web.
In one of my marketing classes our final project was to act as a consultant to a business. Midfield Cafe is a local nashua diner that is popular, but doesn't effectively have a marketing strategy. My presentation goes over their current tactics and my ideas on what they could do to improve their restaurant and business.
This document provides an overview of Luxembourg and discusses opening a Café Vergnano franchise location in the country. Some key points:
- Luxembourg has a population of over 500,000 with French, German and Luxembourgish as the main languages. Its capital is Luxembourg City, known for its medieval old town.
- The economy relies heavily on its financial services sector, accounting for 36% of GDP. Unemployment has historically been below the EU average.
- Coffee culture is growing in Luxembourg, led by the 4th generation family business Knopes Artisan Torréfacteur, which aims to establish a coffee scene.
- Starting a business in Luxembourg requires around 6 procedures
Instut is a next generation point-of-sale solution designed for food and beverage, retail, and service businesses. It allows businesses to easily manage and grow using an iPad application and cloud-based backend. The software can be used for restaurants, cafes, kiosks, and other businesses from single locations up to chains of over 100 outlets. It provides features for operations management, inventory control, sales reporting, and user management.
Dr. Jessie Daniels gave a presentation on digital, public scholarship in the current academic landscape. She notes that academics are increasingly focused on real-world problems and engaging the public sphere. She highlights examples of social movements that have utilized digital tools for activism. Daniels' own website receives over 200,000 unique visitors per month and has allowed her to engage in scholarship, journalism, and activism. She argues that legacy models of closed, removed academic scholarship must evolve to take advantage of new digital technologies and opportunities for open, public engagement.
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.
Public Sociology in the Digital Era (British Sociological Association)Jessie Daniels
This document summarizes a presentation by Jessie Daniels on how digital technologies are changing public sociology. Some of the key ways outlined are:
- Digital technologies have expanded access to scholarship by making information more openly accessible online rather than closed in print. This allows for more public impact.
- Knowledge production, peer review, pedagogy, and activism are all changing with new digital tools that facilitate more open and collaborative work.
- Measuring success is also changing with "altmetrics" that track online mentions and readership rather than just citations.
- Academics need to embrace these digital changes and opportunities for greater public engagement to remain relevant and justify public funding in the current environment.
Public Sociology in the Digital Era (UPenn)Jessie Daniels
In this talk I gave at UPenn on Nov.4, I discuss the ways public sociology and higher ed are changing. And, I offer some examples from the JustPublics@365 project for reimagining scholarly communication in the digital era. For more content, down
The document summarizes a podcast from the journal New Media & Society on scholarly publishing. It includes introductions from the editor and five authors/experts. The authors discuss their recent articles in the issue on challenges to open sharing of scholarly work online, the transition from analog to digital scholarly publishing, the historical role of patronage in supporting scholarship, and how digital tools are transforming scholarly labor and communication. The full podcast is available on the New Media & Society website.
The document discusses knowledge strategy in a networked society and proposes two propositions: 1) That public value will be more effectively achieved through strategic policies that treat user value as flows across institutions rather than actions based on institution classes. 2) Public value will best be achieved by integrating unrelated institutions into a coordinated strategy. It suggests taking an ecosystem approach to create a public knowledge network and explores how knowledge institutions may need to change to remain relevant in the future.
Session for MSc Media Psychology students @salforduni. What does it mean to live and breath the web and how is technology impacting upon the self? Most importantly is the emphasis on our need for networks and how other people contribute to who we are and what we can achieve.
Digital Literacy: It's about more than accessBobbi Newman
Digital literacy is about more than just access to technology. It involves using technology well and the ability to learn, unlearn, and relearn skills. While many have access to technology, 66 million Americans still lack basic digital literacy skills. Digital literacy encompasses skills like attention, participation, collaboration, and network smarts. It also involves the ability to read, write, and interact across different platforms and media. Questions about digital literacy include its relationship to concepts like media literacy, visual literacy, and information literacy.
From open and citizen science to activism: roles of academic staffWeb2Learn
Talk at the INOS webinar "From Open and Citizen Science to Activism: Roles for Academic Staff" https://inos-project.eu/2022/06/08/from-open-and-citizen-science-to-activism-roles-for-academic-staff / July 7, 2022
“All together now...” Mobilising the (digital) humanities in the Information AgeDaniel Paul O'Donnell
A student-focussed discussion of the impact of the information revolution on the research humanities with some examples from my own work, including SSHRC and GRAND-DH-funded material. Present at the University of Basel October 13, 2014.
New-form Scholarship and the Public digital humanitiesJesse Stommel
New-form scholarship reconsiders citation and peer-review, while re-imagining the containers and audiences for academic work. Digital platforms, like Twitter, open-access journals, and blogs offer both limitations and possibilities. The public digital humanities is built around networked learning communities, not repositories for content, and its scholarly product is a conversation, one that engages a broad public while blurring the distinction between research, teaching, service, and outreach. In short, the public digital humanities starts with humans, not technologies or tools.
Beyond The Hype, mainstreaming library 2.0bossyprl
The document discusses how public libraries can adopt Web 2.0 technologies and practices to better serve their communities. It provides an overview of the Yarra Plenty Regional Library's efforts to mainstream Library 2.0 initiatives by engaging and training staff, integrating new technologies into services, and building community capacity through projects like Wikinorthia. The library has seen impacts like improved staff skills and more ways to involve users, showing that embracing change can help libraries remain relevant institutions.
George Veletsianos presented on academics' online participation and experiences with social media and emerging technologies. He discussed two competing narratives about the internet - as either a monstrous or wondrous place - and focused on the middle ground. Through his research, he found that online networks can be places of both conflict and care/vulnerability for academics. Networks of conflict involve issues around professional identity and participation, while networks of care/vulnerability allow academics to express care for one another online in various forms. Veletsianos' research uncovered themes around personal-professional boundaries, intentional versus imposed online identities, and pressures surrounding social media use.
This document discusses how libraries can use social media. It notes that social media allows for sharing of information and expression through virtual communities. Libraries' roles have changed with technological advances, and social media can help libraries promote themselves and attract more users. Reasons for libraries to use social media include giving them a competitive edge, demonstrating their value as information resources, and reaching users who may not otherwise consider the library. Examples are given of how the New York Public Library uses social media like Facebook, Twitter, and Google Hangouts for marketing, customer service, and connecting with users. In conclusion, social media are becoming widely used by libraries for purposes like promotion, reference services, and building user loyalty.
Many students are approaching research incorrectly and it's greatly hurting information literacy. In this presentation we tackle how to solve this issue so students can become prepared for college and the workplace.
Tackle plagiarism, promote ethical research skills and meet your school or district's standards for college and career readiness goals.
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Science dissemination 2.0: Social media for researchers (MTM-MSc 2022)Xavier Lasauca i Cisa
In this workshop (Master in Translational Medicine-MSc, University of Barcelona's Faculty of Medicine-Hospital Clínic, 25 May 2022) I summarised the benefits which can be gained from use of social media (specially Twitter, blogs and other networks and repositories) to support research activities, and I provided examples of these socialnetwork sites as tools for scientific communication, as well as resources to increase the diffusion, visibility and impact of the scientific production. Structure of the lecture: Introduction,The digital revolution, Altmetrics, Open science, Active listening, Twitter, Professional networking, Blogging, Sharing, Digital identity building, References to deepen and Conclusions.
Embedded Librarianship:Physical Worlds & Virtual WorldsValerie Hill
1) Embedded librarianship involves integrating library services both in physical and virtual spaces, including through social media, mobile apps, and virtual worlds.
2) An embedded librarian teaches information literacy skills across various formats and helps patrons evaluate different sources of information wherever they are.
3) As information exists increasingly online, the role of librarians is shifting to teaching skills like digital citizenship, creating a personal learning network, and providing resources in virtual spaces through tools like wikis and exhibits in virtual worlds.
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.
Presentation for IT Research Series seminar at NUI Galway, February 2014.
Related blog post: http://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/openeducation-and-identities/
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Academic publishers are publishing more titles now than in the early 2000s, though there may be a slight decline in opportunities for new authors. While some new titles are reprints or ebooks, academic publishers have generally stayed focused on their niche subject markets rather than pursuing more popular topics. Overall, the data presented does not suggest that digital disruption has significantly changed academic publishers' strategies for the kinds of books and authors they invest in.
This document summarizes Jeffrey Alan Johnson's presentation on distributive justice in information privacy. It discusses how most privacy theories view privacy as a way to distribute information, making privacy a question of distributive justice. However, it notes the limitations of only viewing privacy through a distributive lens, as it ignores structural power imbalances. The document advocates for a structural view of information justice that takes into account how information is used to oppress or silence certain groups.
Presentation for the Digital Sociology Mini-Conference of the Eastern Sociological Society 2016 about MediaCamp, social media skills building workshops for academics conducted in 2014 by the Just Publics @ 365 project at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
These are the slides of my presentation at the Digital Sociology Miniconference at ESS 2016. I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at Northeastern University, Boston.
The document analyzes the evolution of collective identities within the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter related to events in Ferguson, Missouri. It finds:
1) Leaders on Twitter, like DeRay McKesson, mirrored leaders identified in mainstream media.
2) Activity on Twitter was closely linked to offline protests.
3) The collective identity #BlackLivesMatter emerged and survived over time, focusing on themes like discrimination and police brutality.
4) The counter narrative #TCOT focused on validating police and criticizing #BLM as radical.
The growing mediatization of everyday life has led to the emergence of new forms of social movements and political contestation. While this trend can be examined meaningfully through the lenses of traditional political, journalistic, and activist cultures, there is something about the distinct combination of communicative action and affective labor that carries uniquely transformative implications (Castells 2015). Whereas popular, individualized articulations of affective empowerment, and personal politics have been criticized for their lack of bearing on material realities (Barnard 2016b), alternative forms of expression on social media appear to have much deeper resonance with political and activist cultures, and therefore much greater chances at contributing to social change. Nevertheless, collective identity and collective action, supported through active engagement with networked technologies, are requisite characteristics of new social movements.
Whether on the ground, on Twitter, or both, participants in the #Ferguson protests expressed feelings of outrage against major social institutions—namely the criminal justice system and the mainstream media. This paper will examine the role that citizen journo-activists play in the transformation of political and journalistic cultures. As a hybrid, journo-activist space, tweeting #Ferguson quickly emerged as an effective way for interested actors to network and spread their message. Similarly, many networked journalists—increasingly referred to as “j-tweeters” (Hedman 2015)—have taken to Twitter to collect and share information about the events in Ferguson. Using a combination of digital ethnography and content analysis of tweets from #Ferguson, this study examines journalistic and activist uses of Twitter as well as the correspondent implications for changes in field relations and practices. Given the growing convergence of these two fields, as well as their concurrent practices, this case study provides unique insights about the role of digital media in efforts aiming to share information and bolster social change.
This document discusses the evolution of online Mormon feminist communities from early blogs in 2004 to present-day private Facebook groups. It outlines the growth of key groups like Feminist Mormon Housewives and Ordain Women, noting their membership numbers. The document also examines how these online spaces have enabled overlapping communities that plan and organize around causes of gender equality and activism within the Mormon faith.
The document discusses how social media has provided new spaces for victims of sexual violence and opponents of rape culture to share their stories and demand change. It analyzes comments on CNN Facebook posts and YouTube videos about high-profile rape cases that criticized the media coverage for perpetuating rape myths and sympathizing with the rapists. While some news coverage has improved by avoiding victim blaming, other stories still subtly spread myths. Further research is needed on who is using social media to counter rape myths in order to better understand their impact.
Mormon feminist communication has evolved significantly online over the past few decades, starting with listservs in the 1990s and expanding to include blogs, Facebook groups, and podcasts. One of the first Mormon feminist podcasts was Daughters of Mormonism in 2011. Notable podcasts that followed included Feminist Mormon Housewives, Year of Polygamy, and The Color of Heaven. Podcaster Lindsay Hansen Park helped grow the Mormon Feminist Podcast Network starting with her popular Year of Polygamy podcast in 2015. Over time, some online Mormon feminist groups have become more exclusive on Facebook and in podcast audiences.
This document discusses how changes in higher education and knowledge production have led to increased incentives for academics to develop public profiles and online followings, referred to as "micro-celebrity". It notes that while going public can be liberating, it also shifts the risks of maintaining institutional status onto individuals. Furthermore, the risks and incentives differ for different types of scholars, and becoming more publicly visible can exacerbate existing inequalities, such as fewer protections against online harassment for minority scholars. The document calls for institutions to provide more support for academics navigating these changes.
In the spring of 2015, Nepal experienced two large earthquakes that killed nearly 9,000 people and left over 500,000 homeless. Disasters exacerbate existing social inequalities, as marginalized groups are less able to prepare for or cope with extreme events. The post-disaster period can be an opportunity for change, as power structures are weakened and humanitarian actors coordinate relief efforts. However, social media crisis data relies on crowdsourcing and may only further empower groups that are already digitally connected, as marginalized communities face barriers to accessing and contributing online crisis information. Efforts are needed to connect offline communities to the web and ensure marginalized voices are included in organizing relief responses.
Slides for my presentation at the Digital Sociology mini-conference at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 17, 2016 in Boston, MA
ESS Digital Sociology Conference presentation.
I provide an overview of methodological opportunities, challenges, and solutions to consider for sociologists who are thinking about delving into the world of online ethnography.
This document summarizes a presentation on micro-scale ecometrics and digital imaging of social interaction. It discusses using digital tools like video data and image processing code to analyze face-to-face interactions and social networks in schools. It also addresses challenges of analyzing complex sociotechnical systems and how spatial context and neighborhoods influence social phenomena. The presentation describes a project using iPhone cameras and image processing software to study peer engagement on college campuses.
This document discusses issues related to conducting qualitative online research involving human subjects and gaining IRB approval. It raises questions about how IRB policies address digital research methods and the relationship between regulatory definitions of research and ethnographic practices. Specifically, it explores tensions between viewing online content as either public data exempt from IRB versus social interactions that require consideration of privacy and potential harm. The document also questions whether U.S. IRB standards are more restrictive than other countries due to litigiousness and discusses challenges around classifying adolescent participants.
Today’s growth in technological capabilities, exponential increase in computing power available to both consumers and enterprises, and almost ubiquitous Internet connectivity among other digital advances is changing the way employees and enterprises work.
Organizations are benefiting from the increased digitization of the workplace through increased productivity, cost savings, a more mobile and agile workforce, and generally increased flexibility and adaptability in an ever increasingly complex marketplace. Enterprises are collaborating more globally, and with more diverse and global staff. Employees can now work all over the world, from the jungle to the arctic, as long as they have reliable Internet.
While this has been a boom for employers, it has also changed the power balance in the employer-employee relationship, often more towards the employee. The ability to work from anywhere and stay connected through smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices has enabled employees to stay connected and collaborate with peers and stay on top of digital trends more readily than the organizations they work for.
This new digital workplace also creates its own challenges, including security, developing a new kind of digital etiquette to expectations for employees, and the tendency for building expectation of always being “on,” causing burnout and often leading to retention problems. Integrating digital technologies into the workplace can not only wreak havoc on the productivity of workers, but it also creates its own distinct culture, impacting the previous work culture and the general work experience. These changes will challenge the workplace by forcing both executives and employees to adapt the way they interact with each other and the technologies that enable their work.
Companies must be proactive in creating new systems and policies, and re-interpreting their corporate culture around digital in the workplace, or they risk losing clients, productivity, and employees.
Social scientists recognize the ambiguous significance of both mass media and mediated spectacles to impact public perceptions and governmental (in)actions regarding a plethora of societal and political concerns. This recognized ambiguity runs the spectrum from what Guy Debord termed “the society of the spectacle” in 1967 (1995; 2002), whereby mediated spectacles encourage passivity and distraction, to more recent accounts that reimagine spectacles in media and in public spaces of having the potential to encourage activism and alter public debates (see Duncombe, 2007). The advent and expansion of social media encourages understanding the significance of mediated representation to potentially drive social and/or political change through their capacities to transmit meanings outside of established mass media, to influence mass media itself, to act as vehicles for innovative narratives and to possibly galvanize action through the dissemination of visual representations. To explore the potential for mediated spectacles to facilitate political change, this project considers two case studies involving the intersection of social media, newspaper accounts and television coverage/documentary film representation in order to determine whether such an alignment contributes to discernable agenda-setting. The cases of the controversy over SeaWorld’s use of Orca whales (and the negative representation of this practice depicted in the documentary Blackfish) and the recent case of the killing of Cecil the lion by Minnesota dentist and hunter Timothy Palmer (including protests directed at Palmer’s dental practice) were examined through the social media related to these cases is juxtaposed with newspaper accounts and content analyses of television and/or film related to these cases in order to identify the capacity of social media narrative to inform mass media depictions of these events and potentially infuse them with “moralization” (Rozin, 1997).
This document discusses a study analyzing hashtag activism on Twitter to identify common types of social problem claims. The researchers gathered Twitter data from various hashtag campaigns and analyzed the content. They identified three common elements in how claims are presented: a victim, villain, and call to action. The researchers developed a scale to organize the campaigns based on the scope of the social problem and type of assistance requested. This scale identified four categories: systemic/material, systemic/non-material, individualistic/material, and individualistic/non-material. Understanding how hashtag activism claims are structured can provide insights into effective social problem framing and messaging.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
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LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
How to Manage Your Lost Opportunities in Odoo 17 CRMCeline George
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In this slide, we'll explore how to set up warehouses and locations in Odoo 17 Inventory. This will help us manage our stock effectively, track inventory levels, and streamline warehouse operations.
Walmart Business+ and Spark Good for Nonprofits.pdfTechSoup
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This document provides an overview of wound healing, its functions, stages, mechanisms, factors affecting it, and complications.
A wound is a break in the integrity of the skin or tissues, which may be associated with disruption of the structure and function.
Healing is the body’s response to injury in an attempt to restore normal structure and functions.
Healing can occur in two ways: Regeneration and Repair
There are 4 phases of wound healing: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. This document also describes the mechanism of wound healing. Factors that affect healing include infection, uncontrolled diabetes, poor nutrition, age, anemia, the presence of foreign bodies, etc.
Complications of wound healing like infection, hyperpigmentation of scar, contractures, and keloid formation.
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
1. Jessie Daniels, PhD
Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
ESS | Digital Sociology Mini-Conference
19 March 2016
“Being a Scholar Now:
Digital Ways of Knowing, Neoliberal Logics”
46. Scholar-Activism within the Academy
“What we are left with is
the question of how a
traditional university can
be governed in an age of
the vast but unaccountable
Internet Empires like
Twitter and Facebook.” ~
(DeMillo, 2015 p. 261)
Image from here: http://www.thecanyon.com/assets/css/images/grandcanyon1.jpg
Please feel empowered to live Tweet if you’re so inclined.... I might suggest these hashtags for our conversation today.
There is definitely change coming in higher ed / academia ~ it’s a great time if you can be fluid, learn new things, adapt.
I predict it may be less fun for you if this you are attached to old ways of doing things.
Image from here: http://pandodaily.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/change-ahead.jpg?w=584&h=438
There has been an expansion of digital technologies. For some, this has been ‘transformative’ because it is so different than the analog.
For others who were “born digital” these are simply the way things are.
Whichever group you fall into, these digital technologies have already begun transforming scholarly communication.
Simply put, the shift from analog to digital is about code.... coding information into binary code of 1’s and 0’s.
When this happens, information - data - is easier to move around, edit, analyze.
Image from here: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/D83AI8LmcuyqyfnvS6qk1Q
The shift from analog to digital & the explosion of different sorts of technologies are already affecting how we do our jobs as sociologists.
Rather than comb through a card catalog, we look things up on Google Scholar.
The whole notion of a “library” is now one that’s digital, distributed..... a real game-changer when it comes to libraries in the digital era.
http://dp.la/
It’s important to have the physical building which we still use..... ...but as scholars, we *expect* ~ even demand ~ that there are digital tools within those libraries that we can use from any location.
Digital technologies have changed how we keep track of citations, bibliographies......and, with tools like Zotero, we can create bibliographies, keep track of citations, and share them with others who have similar interests.
It’s changed how we write.... this is Commentpress....
Another DH scholar who used Commentpress - for her book Planned Obsolescence - writes that these new platforms are changing the way we think about publication, reading and peer review.
Digital technologies + the open web are also changing academic publishing….
There is a lot wrong with academic publishing.... and lots of people are seeing that now. What’s wrong with it?
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/31858/title/Opinion--Academic-Publishing-Is-Broken-/
Academics stash their research in places, like JSTOR, that most people can’t get to it. This of course, harkens back to the point Burawoy raises – about the public’s patience with funding ivory tower research that is locked in databases the public can’t access – and whether the public’s ‘patience’ with this system is at an end.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/01/locked-in-the-ivory-tower-why-jstor-imprisons-academic-research/251649/
Some even argue it’s immoral...
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jan/17/open-access-publishing-science-paywall-immoral
Another resource about this....
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access
Digital technologies + the open web are also changing academic publishing….
Open access also means new approaches to knowledge production… as I discuss in this piece about how I took a tweet from a conference, transformed it into a blog post, then a series of posts, and then into a peer-reviewed article.
At the LSE Impact Blog: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/09/25/how-to-be-a-scholar-daniels/
digital technologies also changing what it means to be a scholar-activist....
Back in…
Blogs were on the rise, as the latest big thing….and they were heralded as a technology that made possible the “citizen journalist” + there was a lot of talk about the ‘little people rising up’ through blogs.
2004 was also the year that “blog” was picked as word of the year. Remember that, because I’m going to come back to it at the very end….
Joe R. Feagin and I began discussing establishing a scholarly blog in about 2004-2005.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4059291.stm
Joe R. Feagin and I began discussing establishing a scholarly blog in about 2004-2005. We finally did it in spring, 2007.
Early screenshot fromRacism Review, 2007.
http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2007/04/08/imus-gendered-racism/
Joe and I both conceptualize what we’re doing with the RR blog as a form of intellectual activism, the work of digitally-engaged scholar-activists.
For more on intellectual activism, see PHCollins’ latest book.
The backend... which, if we were going to approach advertisers, is what we would show people.
The big numbers.
The smaller numbers, which in many ways, I’m more pleased about.
This is what a “new post” looks like in the back-end of WordPress... mostly identical across blogs on this platform.
The key here is that blue button on the right.... “Publish”
all these changes in scholarship, pedagogy + publishing means that there are ways that the ways we measure success is changing, too.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013636
From the abstract: “Articles whose authors have supplemented subscription-based access to the publisher's version by self-archiving their own final draft to make it accessible free for all on the web (“Open Access”, OA) are cited significantly more than articles in the same journal and year that have not been made OA.”
We’re shifting from ‘metrics’ to ‘altmetrics.’
We are also living in a global (certainly US, UK + Western Europe) context of ‘austerity’ - which is the lie that we’re out of money but reflects the reality of economic inequality
and that the rich and super-rich will not invest in public goods and services, like higher education.
Image from here: http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gty-154440996-4_3_r560.jpg
In academia, as elsewhere, we’re faced with competing forces of commercialization vs. democratization (as Robert Darnton, DPLA noted in a recent talk at the GC).
The political economy of austerity - up to and including slashes in funding to public institutions of higher ed, the adjunctification of the academic workforce, and the attacks on funding such as the Coburn amendment - point to this broad conflict between forces of commercialization and forces of democratization.
I think that we, as academics, sometimes conflate the “commerce v. democracy “ struggle with the transformation from “legacy” to “digital” forms of scholarly communication.
Given this context, what are academics to do to embrace democratization and resist the forces of commercialization?
The politics of austerity mean that the funding landscape of higher ed is changing.
A different landscape in the UK, where there is an overall committment to funding higher ed.
Still REF means that the funding is tied to demonstrated “research excellence,” part of which relies on evidence of “impact” on wider publics.
Lots of good information on this effort, at the LSE Impact Blog: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
Political attacks on higher ed in the US are changing the landscape of funding...
“...Coburn managed to prohibit any funds for NSF-funded political science unless it was somehow “promoting national security or the economic interests of the United States.” He’d tried to put the ax to NSF’s political science funds before, and failed. But that tighter definition allowed him to argue that the funds could exist, as long as they weren’t squandered.”
Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/04/national_science_foundation_and_tom_coburn_the_republican_effort_to_cut.html
No longer any broad commitment to funding state-funded public institutions of higher ed, at least when you look at data from state budgets, like this one from GA....
Image from here: http://likethedew.com/2011/05/05/georgia-falling-behind-funding-higher-education/
....and a very similar downward trend in funding from Washington State. Every state in the US is following a similar pattern.
This means that faculty have to be more entrpreneurial in securing their own funding for research (much like journalists are now considering ways to be entrepreneurial as a response to changing business model in news).
Image from here: http://budgetandpolicy.org/schmudget/cuts-to-higher-education-dimming-future-prosperity
And, of course, there’s very bad news in academia regarding the way we hire (or don’t hire) faculty. 73%=76% of all instructional workforce in higher ed = adjunct faculty.
Image from here: http://www.schoolleadership20.com/forum/topics/25-telling-facts-about-adjunct-faculty-today
Given the grim prospects for legacy tenure-track jobs in the academy, a lot of people w/ PhDs are going to do other things with those skills.
Image from here: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-many-phds-actually-get-to-become-college-professors/273434/
In academia, as elsewhere, neoliberal regimes want to use technology to further their goals.
The political economy of austerity - up to and including slashes in funding to public institutions of higher ed, the adjunctification of the academic workforce, and the attacks on funding such as the Coburn amendment - point to this broad conflict between forces of commercialization and forces of democratization.
I think that we, as academics, sometimes conflate the “commerce v. democracy “ struggle with the transformation from “legacy” to “digital” forms of scholarly communication.
Given this context, what are academics to do to embrace democratization and resist the forces of commercialization?
In academia, as elsewhere, neoliberal regimes want to use technology to further their goals.
(Describe...then) I would argue that this is mostly going away, but in piecemeal fashion.
What did this look like?
Academic scholarship is being transformed in the digital era. In contrast to the 20th c. legacy model, the emerging, 21st c. model of academic scholarship is digital, open, connected to the public sphere, worldly.
This has profound implications for our understanding of public sociology.
However, this is not a complete transition from a “legacy” past that is behind us, and a “digital” present or future.
The legacy and the digital are imbricated and overlap in the here and now.
In academia, as elsewhere, we’re faced with competing forces of commercialization vs. democratization (as Robert Darnton, DPLA noted in a recent talk at the GC).
The political economy of austerity - up to and including slashes in funding to public institutions of higher ed, the adjunctification of the academic workforce, and the attacks on funding such as the Coburn amendment - point to this broad conflict between forces of commercialization and forces of democratization.
I think that we, as academics, sometimes conflate the “commerce v. democracy “ struggle with the transformation from “legacy” to “digital” forms of scholarly communication.
Given this context, what are academics to do to embrace democratization and resist the forces of commercialization?
In academia, as elsewhere, we’re faced with competing forces of commercialization vs. democratization (as Robert Darnton, DPLA noted in a recent talk at the GC).
The political economy of austerity - up to and including slashes in funding to public institutions of higher ed, the adjunctification of the academic workforce, and the attacks on funding such as the Coburn amendment - point to this broad conflict between forces of commercialization and forces of democratization.
I think that we, as academics, sometimes conflate the “commerce v. democracy “ struggle with the transformation from “legacy” to “digital” forms of scholarly communication.
Given this context, what are academics to do to embrace democratization and resist the forces of commercialization?
In academia, as elsewhere, we’re faced with competing forces of commercialization vs. democratization (as Robert Darnton, DPLA noted in a recent talk at the GC).
The political economy of austerity - up to and including slashes in funding to public institutions of higher ed, the adjunctification of the academic workforce, and the attacks on funding such as the Coburn amendment - point to this broad conflict between forces of commercialization and forces of democratization.
I think that we, as academics, sometimes conflate the “commerce v. democracy “ struggle with the transformation from “legacy” to “digital” forms of scholarly communication.
Given this context, what are academics to do to embrace democratization and resist the forces of commercialization?
In academia, as elsewhere, we’re faced with competing forces of commercialization vs. democratization (as Robert Darnton, DPLA noted in a recent talk at the GC).
The political economy of austerity - up to and including slashes in funding to public institutions of higher ed, the adjunctification of the academic workforce, and the attacks on funding such as the Coburn amendment - point to this broad conflict between forces of commercialization and forces of democratization.
I think that we, as academics, sometimes conflate the “commerce v. democracy “ struggle with the transformation from “legacy” to “digital” forms of scholarly communication.
Given this context, what are academics to do to embrace democratization and resist the forces of commercialization?
Given this context, what are academics to do to resist the forces of commercialization? I argue that owning the content of your own professional identity is key to this... For most faculty, their "web presence" is a page on a departmental website that they have no control over and cannot change or update even if they wanted to. "Reclaiming the web" means owning your own domain name and managing it yourself, a move Jim Groom has put forward for students + I argue should be the default strategy for faculty.
Too often academics, + especially sociologists want to "resist" commercialization by "refusing" the digital and I think this is misplaced and reflects a misunderstanding of the forces at play here.
"reclaiming the web" - and owning our own words, our own professional identity is just one step.
Academics (at that handful of us with tenure) can also say “no” to publishing in places that don’t allow you to own your own work by retaining copyright. Even un-tenured or outside-tenure folk can ask the questions about access. Perhaps even more important for those without the usual institutional affiliations to insist on making their work OA, so that others in the wider world can access it.
Thanks & let's continue the conversation online.