Keynote presentation delivered by Professor Simeon Yates at the Connecting People, Connecting Ideas symposium (#CPCINapier) held at Edinburgh Napier University on 22nd June 2017
Slides from a presentation delivered by joe gerstandt at the 2013 Diversity Summit in Houston, Texas. This presentation introduces Social Network Analysis (SNA) / Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) as powerful tools for Diversity and Inclusion work. When there are disparities in employee experience outcomes (retention, engagement, etc.), there are often times underlying disparities in the networks of relationships.
Understanding the world with NLP: interactions between society, behaviour and...Diana Maynard
The document discusses analyzing social media data, particularly tweets, for natural language processing tasks. It provides examples of analyzing tweets to understand information sharing during disasters, monitor opinions in real-time, detect topics and analyze political discussions. It also discusses challenges in analyzing tweets like informal language, ambiguity and misleading contexts or hashtags. Precise information extraction and annotation of tweets is needed to accurately identify hate speech, abuse and analyze its targets and changes over time. A multi-step pipeline including collection, preprocessing, information extraction and classification is proposed to understand abuse toward politicians from tweets surrounding UK elections.
How to Succeed at Jobs That Don't Exist Yet (Workshop at Queens College-9/26/18)Christopher Bishop
This document outlines strategies for navigating careers in a changing job market. It discusses how most jobs today did not exist just 5 years ago and predicts that today's learners will have 8-10 jobs by age 38. It introduces emerging career fields like autonomous vehicle operator and mixed reality content consultant. The document presents a "Future Careers Toolkit" involving defining one's unique voice, researching emerging trends through an "antenna" of information sources, and connecting with relevant networks through "meshing". The overall message is that to succeed in future careers, one must cultivate lifelong learning, flexibility and connections across disciplines.
Sociology of the Internet and New Media.pptxSandykaFundaa
• Social Construction of Technology,
• Digital inequalities – Digital Divide and Access,
• Economy of New Media - Intellectual value;
• digital media ethics,
• new media and popular culture.
Reaching young people online young people and youth workers in online commu...Verke
This document discusses how youth workers can effectively engage and support young people in their online communities. It begins by introducing Verke, the National Centre of Expertise on Digital Youth Work in Finland. Verke aims to increase knowledge and adoption of digital media in youth work through training, resources, research, and networking. The document emphasizes that digital skills are now essential citizenship skills for young people, and that youth workers must understand how and where young people communicate online through platforms like WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, and online games to effectively support them. It provides examples of online communities created by youth organizations and encourages youth workers to participate in the spaces where young people already engage to remain relevant.
Leadership and Mindfulness in a Connected AgeAmanda Levinson
The document discusses the opportunities and challenges of living and leading in today's digital age of constant connectivity. It notes how technology has evolved rapidly over time and is now ubiquitous, allowing constant access through mobile devices. While this connectivity enables engagement, innovation and social change, it can also promote isolation, inequality and privacy issues if not approached mindfully. The document advocates developing strategies like focus, filtering and forgetting to consciously harness technology's benefits while maintaining awareness and balance in our lives. It raises questions about how to use technology wisely as leaders to improve communities in Vermont.
Slides from a presentation delivered by joe gerstandt at the 2013 Diversity Summit in Houston, Texas. This presentation introduces Social Network Analysis (SNA) / Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) as powerful tools for Diversity and Inclusion work. When there are disparities in employee experience outcomes (retention, engagement, etc.), there are often times underlying disparities in the networks of relationships.
Understanding the world with NLP: interactions between society, behaviour and...Diana Maynard
The document discusses analyzing social media data, particularly tweets, for natural language processing tasks. It provides examples of analyzing tweets to understand information sharing during disasters, monitor opinions in real-time, detect topics and analyze political discussions. It also discusses challenges in analyzing tweets like informal language, ambiguity and misleading contexts or hashtags. Precise information extraction and annotation of tweets is needed to accurately identify hate speech, abuse and analyze its targets and changes over time. A multi-step pipeline including collection, preprocessing, information extraction and classification is proposed to understand abuse toward politicians from tweets surrounding UK elections.
How to Succeed at Jobs That Don't Exist Yet (Workshop at Queens College-9/26/18)Christopher Bishop
This document outlines strategies for navigating careers in a changing job market. It discusses how most jobs today did not exist just 5 years ago and predicts that today's learners will have 8-10 jobs by age 38. It introduces emerging career fields like autonomous vehicle operator and mixed reality content consultant. The document presents a "Future Careers Toolkit" involving defining one's unique voice, researching emerging trends through an "antenna" of information sources, and connecting with relevant networks through "meshing". The overall message is that to succeed in future careers, one must cultivate lifelong learning, flexibility and connections across disciplines.
Sociology of the Internet and New Media.pptxSandykaFundaa
• Social Construction of Technology,
• Digital inequalities – Digital Divide and Access,
• Economy of New Media - Intellectual value;
• digital media ethics,
• new media and popular culture.
Reaching young people online young people and youth workers in online commu...Verke
This document discusses how youth workers can effectively engage and support young people in their online communities. It begins by introducing Verke, the National Centre of Expertise on Digital Youth Work in Finland. Verke aims to increase knowledge and adoption of digital media in youth work through training, resources, research, and networking. The document emphasizes that digital skills are now essential citizenship skills for young people, and that youth workers must understand how and where young people communicate online through platforms like WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, and online games to effectively support them. It provides examples of online communities created by youth organizations and encourages youth workers to participate in the spaces where young people already engage to remain relevant.
Leadership and Mindfulness in a Connected AgeAmanda Levinson
The document discusses the opportunities and challenges of living and leading in today's digital age of constant connectivity. It notes how technology has evolved rapidly over time and is now ubiquitous, allowing constant access through mobile devices. While this connectivity enables engagement, innovation and social change, it can also promote isolation, inequality and privacy issues if not approached mindfully. The document advocates developing strategies like focus, filtering and forgetting to consciously harness technology's benefits while maintaining awareness and balance in our lives. It raises questions about how to use technology wisely as leaders to improve communities in Vermont.
This document provides an overview of the key concepts covered in the Social and Cultural World unit, including persons, society, culture, environment, time, power, authority, gender, and technology. It explains that the unit aims to develop students' social and cultural literacy by learning these concepts and how to apply them. It also discusses how the course incorporates social and cultural research methodologies like primary and secondary research, as well as cross-cultural studies to explore issues from different perspectives.
The document discusses how 2010 marked a watershed year in which new technologies empowered activists and journalists to speak out against repressive governments and push for greater respect of human rights. It suggests that repressive governments now face the real possibility that their days are numbered due to technologies that allow information to spread more freely. The summary highlights how new technologies have given voice to critics of authoritarian regimes and represent a threat to governments that try to strictly control information.
This document discusses the challenges of digital changes and social changes. It covers two upcoming sessions on humans and machines. It then provides biographical information about the author as a senior advisor, investor, and speaker. The document discusses how the future of business involves letting go and various quotes on embracing change. It covers how young children are already internet users and how the world changes daily. The overall message is that the only constant is change.
Presentation on the cultures of the Internet described in the 2013 Report of the Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS), focused on five clusters of users in Britain.
Social media: new opportunities and challenges for FE college communicationsTracy Playle
Presentation delivered to regional groups of the Association of Colleges (AoC), July 2009. Please note that images used in this presentation must not be copied and re-used. Many of them can individually be purchased through istockphoto.
This presentation was given by Maria Schwarz-Woelzl (ZSI) as part of the explorative workshop to test the methodology that was carried out in Vienna / Austria (on the 11th of October 2010) and investigated Facebook and an Austrian senior platform
This document discusses and summarizes several stories and research related to software developers. It begins by looking at gender representation and participation of women in open source software communities, finding that women engage and participate less than men. It then examines how software developers communicate and share knowledge, finding that social Q&A sites are changing knowledge sharing. Other topics summarized include the use of Slack by software teams, the impact of diversity on team performance, perceptions of diversity on GitHub, and challenges with sentiment analysis when studying developer communications.
Inclusive networks (2014 Forum on Workplace Inclusion)Joe Gerstandt
slides from a presentation delivered by joe gerstandt at the 2014 Forum on Workplace Inclusion ...this session considered the importance or relationships, networks of relationships and Social Network Analysis (SNA/ONA) to diversity practitioners, diversity leaders and as a possible diversity and inclusion focus.
This document discusses research being conducted on users of a community IT center located in a socially deprived area of a city in southern England. The research is collecting life stories of users through biographic-narrative interviews to understand patterns of engagement and IT practices. It aims to fill gaps in understanding the relationship between personal development, skills acquisition, and community development through lifelong learning opportunities. The researcher is exploring issues of identity and social belonging among users through interviews and focus groups using an appreciative inquiry approach.
The document summarizes research on generational differences and how they relate to technology use. It discusses definitions of generations and characterizations of groups like the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Net Generation. It also explores the idea of "digital natives" and how younger generations' upbringing alongside technology has impacted how their brains process information. However, more recent research finds individual factors better predict technology use than generational labels. The document advocates for developing digital literacy skills and rigorous research to understand students' diverse learning experiences.
The document summarizes a 4-year qualitative study of a community IT center located on a large, socially deprived housing estate. It provides context about the estate's population challenges with education, skills, unemployment and crime. It then presents anonymized excerpts from interviews with center users that discuss both positive and negative experiences of the estate and the role of the center in supporting community, learning and social inclusion. Research questions are posed about patterns of engagement at the center and its policy implications for adult education.
This document outlines challenges and opportunities for decolonizing digital humanities. It discusses how digital humanities has traditionally focused on Western texts and excluded work by marginalized groups. It also notes concerns around a lack of diversity in who conducts digital humanities research and receives funding. The document advocates for recent efforts like #transformDH that center issues of race, class, gender and disability. It provides an example project on digitizing Chinese Canadian histories that highlights opportunities for community engagement and more inclusive digital scholarship.
Generational Differences: Millennials, Social media, and EducationJoshua Murdock
This is my presentation from Learning Services at Valencia College on Generational Differences in both the classroom and workplace. It focuses mainly on the Millennial generation, the majority of students in our classrooms today. Dives into social media (Facebook & Twitter) and other key factors that could help engage students.
The document summarizes key findings from a study on women in technology fields. It discusses:
1) Low proportions of women in technology industries globally based on various statistics.
2) A literature review revealing that gender and technology research has been under-theorized and marginalized, with a focus on essential gender differences rather than social influences. Qualitative studies point to structural barriers like socialization and discrimination.
3) Preliminary empirical observations from interviews and focus groups with technologists in the UK and France, finding early influences varied, and school/university experiences and career paths differed between countries.
For better or for worse- Technology's impact on educationAbaida Mahmood
The document discusses the changes in education needed for the 21st century due to a new generation of digitally-wired students. It notes their brains develop differently and they process images faster than text. Schools need to reinvent themselves to work with these students and prepare them for future jobs requiring 21st century skills. A challenge is that parents, teachers and policymakers think of education as when they were in school, but it must shift to new paradigms to match today's digital world. The summary highlights the key issues discussed in transforming education for a new generation of learners.
This presentation gives you a short introduction to online ethnography, the history of the methodology and a few tips and tricks about ethics and everyday practises.
Slides from a session debunking articles written about Millennials and how educational institutions should really determine how and where to communicate to their audiences on social media. Presented at the 2015 CASE Social Media and Community Conference in Miami.
Challenges for 21st century education and blended learningFrederik Questier
F. Questier, Challenges for 21st century education and blended learning; Lecture for Masterclass professionele ontwerpteams, Associatie KU Leuven, 12/02/15 https://associatie.kuleuven.be/events/mcpot/programma
Preparation of the PhD thesis for examinationHazel Hall
Training materials used with doctoral students faced with the challenge of writing up their research and asking themselves 'How do I write up my doctoral study?'
Presentation delivered by Professor Hazel Hall at the RIVAL Reunion event in Edinburgh, 25th May 2023. Further details of the event at https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/social-informatics/2023/05/rival-reunion-event-25-may-2023/
This document provides an overview of the key concepts covered in the Social and Cultural World unit, including persons, society, culture, environment, time, power, authority, gender, and technology. It explains that the unit aims to develop students' social and cultural literacy by learning these concepts and how to apply them. It also discusses how the course incorporates social and cultural research methodologies like primary and secondary research, as well as cross-cultural studies to explore issues from different perspectives.
The document discusses how 2010 marked a watershed year in which new technologies empowered activists and journalists to speak out against repressive governments and push for greater respect of human rights. It suggests that repressive governments now face the real possibility that their days are numbered due to technologies that allow information to spread more freely. The summary highlights how new technologies have given voice to critics of authoritarian regimes and represent a threat to governments that try to strictly control information.
This document discusses the challenges of digital changes and social changes. It covers two upcoming sessions on humans and machines. It then provides biographical information about the author as a senior advisor, investor, and speaker. The document discusses how the future of business involves letting go and various quotes on embracing change. It covers how young children are already internet users and how the world changes daily. The overall message is that the only constant is change.
Presentation on the cultures of the Internet described in the 2013 Report of the Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS), focused on five clusters of users in Britain.
Social media: new opportunities and challenges for FE college communicationsTracy Playle
Presentation delivered to regional groups of the Association of Colleges (AoC), July 2009. Please note that images used in this presentation must not be copied and re-used. Many of them can individually be purchased through istockphoto.
This presentation was given by Maria Schwarz-Woelzl (ZSI) as part of the explorative workshop to test the methodology that was carried out in Vienna / Austria (on the 11th of October 2010) and investigated Facebook and an Austrian senior platform
This document discusses and summarizes several stories and research related to software developers. It begins by looking at gender representation and participation of women in open source software communities, finding that women engage and participate less than men. It then examines how software developers communicate and share knowledge, finding that social Q&A sites are changing knowledge sharing. Other topics summarized include the use of Slack by software teams, the impact of diversity on team performance, perceptions of diversity on GitHub, and challenges with sentiment analysis when studying developer communications.
Inclusive networks (2014 Forum on Workplace Inclusion)Joe Gerstandt
slides from a presentation delivered by joe gerstandt at the 2014 Forum on Workplace Inclusion ...this session considered the importance or relationships, networks of relationships and Social Network Analysis (SNA/ONA) to diversity practitioners, diversity leaders and as a possible diversity and inclusion focus.
This document discusses research being conducted on users of a community IT center located in a socially deprived area of a city in southern England. The research is collecting life stories of users through biographic-narrative interviews to understand patterns of engagement and IT practices. It aims to fill gaps in understanding the relationship between personal development, skills acquisition, and community development through lifelong learning opportunities. The researcher is exploring issues of identity and social belonging among users through interviews and focus groups using an appreciative inquiry approach.
The document summarizes research on generational differences and how they relate to technology use. It discusses definitions of generations and characterizations of groups like the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Net Generation. It also explores the idea of "digital natives" and how younger generations' upbringing alongside technology has impacted how their brains process information. However, more recent research finds individual factors better predict technology use than generational labels. The document advocates for developing digital literacy skills and rigorous research to understand students' diverse learning experiences.
The document summarizes a 4-year qualitative study of a community IT center located on a large, socially deprived housing estate. It provides context about the estate's population challenges with education, skills, unemployment and crime. It then presents anonymized excerpts from interviews with center users that discuss both positive and negative experiences of the estate and the role of the center in supporting community, learning and social inclusion. Research questions are posed about patterns of engagement at the center and its policy implications for adult education.
This document outlines challenges and opportunities for decolonizing digital humanities. It discusses how digital humanities has traditionally focused on Western texts and excluded work by marginalized groups. It also notes concerns around a lack of diversity in who conducts digital humanities research and receives funding. The document advocates for recent efforts like #transformDH that center issues of race, class, gender and disability. It provides an example project on digitizing Chinese Canadian histories that highlights opportunities for community engagement and more inclusive digital scholarship.
Generational Differences: Millennials, Social media, and EducationJoshua Murdock
This is my presentation from Learning Services at Valencia College on Generational Differences in both the classroom and workplace. It focuses mainly on the Millennial generation, the majority of students in our classrooms today. Dives into social media (Facebook & Twitter) and other key factors that could help engage students.
The document summarizes key findings from a study on women in technology fields. It discusses:
1) Low proportions of women in technology industries globally based on various statistics.
2) A literature review revealing that gender and technology research has been under-theorized and marginalized, with a focus on essential gender differences rather than social influences. Qualitative studies point to structural barriers like socialization and discrimination.
3) Preliminary empirical observations from interviews and focus groups with technologists in the UK and France, finding early influences varied, and school/university experiences and career paths differed between countries.
For better or for worse- Technology's impact on educationAbaida Mahmood
The document discusses the changes in education needed for the 21st century due to a new generation of digitally-wired students. It notes their brains develop differently and they process images faster than text. Schools need to reinvent themselves to work with these students and prepare them for future jobs requiring 21st century skills. A challenge is that parents, teachers and policymakers think of education as when they were in school, but it must shift to new paradigms to match today's digital world. The summary highlights the key issues discussed in transforming education for a new generation of learners.
This presentation gives you a short introduction to online ethnography, the history of the methodology and a few tips and tricks about ethics and everyday practises.
Slides from a session debunking articles written about Millennials and how educational institutions should really determine how and where to communicate to their audiences on social media. Presented at the 2015 CASE Social Media and Community Conference in Miami.
Challenges for 21st century education and blended learningFrederik Questier
F. Questier, Challenges for 21st century education and blended learning; Lecture for Masterclass professionele ontwerpteams, Associatie KU Leuven, 12/02/15 https://associatie.kuleuven.be/events/mcpot/programma
Preparation of the PhD thesis for examinationHazel Hall
Training materials used with doctoral students faced with the challenge of writing up their research and asking themselves 'How do I write up my doctoral study?'
Presentation delivered by Professor Hazel Hall at the RIVAL Reunion event in Edinburgh, 25th May 2023. Further details of the event at https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/social-informatics/2023/05/rival-reunion-event-25-may-2023/
Platform to Platform project lightening talkHazel Hall
Lightning talk on the AHRC/Creative Informatics funded Platform to Platform project to create a podcast series based on Lorna Lloyd's 'Diary of the war', and assess audience engagement with archives in two different digital formats - (1) a Blipfoto journal of text and images, and (2) sound in podcast episodes.
Undertaking a part-time LIS PhD: 10 tips in 20 minutesHazel Hall
This document provides 10 tips for undertaking a part-time PhD from Dr. Hazel Hall based on her experience supervising and completing part-time PhDs. The tips address deciding if a part-time PhD is right, choosing supervisors and a topic, getting employer support, presenting research along the way, accepting feedback, and ensuring the thesis contributes new knowledge to the field. Key advice includes only pursuing a part-time PhD if committed to independent study for 6 years, choosing a stable supervisory team, negotiating support from employers, and publishing parts of the research as it is completed.
Platform to Platform: initial findings from the empirical studyHazel Hall
Initial findings from the empirical study of the Platform to Platform project are presented. The research centred on the creation of a podcast series based on the war diary of Lorna Lloyd (available at https://rss.com/podcasts/lornalloyd/), and the evaluation of audience engagement with it as compared with engagement with online text and images in a Blipfoto journal at http://blipfoto.com/lornal. The research was funded by the AHRC through the Creative Informatics programme.
Digital options: an assessment of audience engagement with a digitised set of...Hazel Hall
Paper presented at the Archives and Records Management conference, 2nd September 2022 on audience engagement with Lorna Lloyd's Diary of the war as a Blipfoto journal, and as a podcast series.
Using a multi-location, longitudinal focus group method to conduct qualitativ...Hazel Hall
Paper presented at 13th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2021) (virtual conference), 25-28 May 2021. Full text available at https://www.napier.ac.uk/~/media/worktribe/output-2755729/using-a-multi-location-longitudinal-focus-group-method-to-conduct-qualitative-research.pdf
Professor Hazel Hall introduced the fourth event of the RIVAL Network at Edinburgh Napier University. Since the last meeting, output teams have been working on deliverables and a joint funding application was unsuccessful. Lessons from RIVAL helped inform the Digital Proxies project. The teams then met to discuss progress and next steps, with an upcoming deadline of February 12th for further output team meetings and a wrap-up plenary session.
The document summarizes a presentation by Professor Hazel Hall at the Research, Impact, Value & LIS (RIVAL) Network Event 3 in Edinburgh on November 19th, 2020. The presentation discussed practitioner research, specifically focusing on the value and impact of such research, as well as research priorities. It provided an introduction of Professor Hall and outlined some of the activities of the RIVAL network since the previous event, including presentations, a joint funding application, and interactions between members.
Research, impact, value and library and information science (RIVAL): developm...Hazel Hall
The research-practice gap in Library and Information Science (LIS) is well documented, especially in respect of the difficulties of translating research into practice, and resultant lost opportunities. While many researchers attempt to explain this research-practice gap, few suggest strategies to address it. The creation of researcher-practitioner networks, however, is one approach that has been proved empirically to bridge the distance between the two communities. Such a network is currently operating in Scotland, funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Research, Impact, Value and Library and Information Science (RIVAL) is part-way through its implementation based around four knowledge exchange events for a network membership of 32 from a wide variety of LIS sectors. RIVAL’s successful delivery depends in part on the project leads’ experience of undertaking, and evaluating the impact of, a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council funded grant: the Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) project. Already there are indications that RIVAL is delivering value to network members. There is a strong expectation for this to be enhanced, both in the remainder of the funding period and beyond, offering theoretical contributions to the study of social networks, especially in respect of social capital development to support knowledge exchange.
Collaboration and networking: learning from DREaM and RIVALHazel Hall
Discusses the extent of networking and collaboration amongst library and information science researchers and practitioners who took part in the AHRC-funded Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) project in 2011/12, and the extent to which learning from this grant has influenced the delivery of the Royal Society of Edinburgh funded Research Impact and Value and Library and Information Science project in 2019/20.
Research into Practice case study 2: Library linked data implementations an...Hazel Hall
The document summarizes a presentation given by Dr. Diane Pennington and Laura Cagnazzo on library linked data implementations and perceptions. The presentation discussed the evolution of the semantic web and linked open data principles. It provided an overview of a study on the status and perceptions of linked data among European national libraries and Scottish libraries. The study found lack of awareness and expertise to be challenges for implementation. Benefits included improved data visibility and opportunities for collaboration. Recommendations focused on training, collaboration, and developing implementation guidelines and case studies.
Catalysing research into practice from the ground upHazel Hall
David Stewart, CILIP President for 2019 and Regional Director of Health Library and Knowledge Services North, presents on his key presidential theme: the importance of evidence to underpin the difference that library services make. He provides an overview of CILIP’s plans for greater collaboration and co-ordination, and also shares details of work undertaken in NHS England. This includes (a) national research on return on investment, and (b) details of the Catalyst scheme in the North of England, which has been designed to develop librarian research capability and a ground-up, small-scale research programme.
This document summarizes the agenda and notes from a November 7, 2019 event hosted by the RIVAL Network in Edinburgh. The event focused on practitioner research, value, and impact. It included formal presentations from Professor Hazel Hall and others, as well as informal presentations from network members and discussions on opportunities to influence the development of the RIVAL Network and plan future events.
The document summarizes discussions from the first event of the RIVAL network in Edinburgh on July 11, 2019. Participants hoped the RIVAL program would: 1) improve the use of LIS research in practice and practice in research; 2) foster better collaboration between LIS departments and practitioners; and 3) identify priorities for future research areas like AI. They also hoped it would increase appreciation of LIS skills, encourage more research, and develop tangible outcomes. For future events, participants suggested building connections between events, advertising more widely, and including unstructured program elements. Barriers included understanding different sector restrictions and determining the network's ambitions. For the final event, ideas were to take RIVAL on tour, celebrate successes, and ensure
Scotland's school library strategy: advocacy and impact by Martina McChrystalHazel Hall
Vibrant libraries, thriving schools: a national strategy for school libraries in Scotland 2018-2023 is Scotland’s school library strategy. By showcasing the impact an excellent school library service can deliver, the strategy is intended to be used to influence decision-making in respect of school library provision. Martina's presentation outlines about her involvement in the development of the strategy as Chair of the National School Library Strategy Advisory Group, the strategy’s role in advocacy, and its anticipated impact.
Getting research into action: issues, challenges, solutions by Dr Sarah MortonHazel Hall
Sarah Morton has worked across research, policy and practice for most of her career, and will draw on examples from different settings encountered over this time in her presentation. She is keen to interrogate our learning about effective evidence use from the last 20 years, and review how this can be supported from research and practice perspectives. She will present a vision for the effective use of evidence of all kinds to plan, develop and improve policy, practice, and services. As part of this she will explain some of the ways that she is currently developing tools and support for effective evidence use.
Professor Hazel Hall introduces RIVAL - a collaborative network of Scotland-based Library and Information Science (LIS) researchers and practising library and information professionals interested in maximising the impact and value of library and information science research. The project, which runs in 2019 and 2020, is funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This is the first of the four networking events.
Research, Impact, Value and LIS = RIVAL.
Participatory Budgeting, São Paulo, BrazilHazel Hall
Summarises a research project on participatory budgeting in São Paulo, Brazil undertaken by Edinburgh Napier University researchers Dr Wegene Demeke and Dr Bruce Ryan, and supported by the Global Challenge Research Fund.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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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.
Thinking of getting a dog? Be aware that breeds like Pit Bulls, Rottweilers, and German Shepherds can be loyal and dangerous. Proper training and socialization are crucial to preventing aggressive behaviors. Ensure safety by understanding their needs and always supervising interactions. Stay safe, and enjoy your furry friends!
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.
1. Ways of Being in a Digital
Age
(Or how we are all boiled frogs)
Professor Simeon J. Yates
Director Centre for Digital Humanities and Social Science
University of Liverpool
2. Topics I’m going to indulge in talking about
• ESRC Project
• A bit of history and why we are boiled frogs
• Anthropology, discourses and disciplines
• Some recent (and old) research or why social science should take this
stuff seriously
3. Project team
• The project team represents 16
universities from the UK, EU, USA
and Singapore.
• The core team of co investigators
from eight UK universities will
provide expertise across a range of
social science, arts, engineering
and science backgrounds.
• The team also includes a broader
international steering group.
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4. Social science challenges
• Society has been dealing with the ever increasing and substantive impact of digital technologies
for more four decades
• One consistent finding is that many of the challenges society faces are not technical, and require
sociological, economic, political or economic analysis.
• In many cases they need a combined interdisciplinary approach, often in collaboration with
colleagues from computer science, engineering or other science disciplines.
• Some examples of such challenges include, but are certainly not limited to:
• digital exclusion • automation of work
• on-line politics • trust in online systems
• long-tail economics • cybercrime
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5. Project foci
• The project will focus on seven ‘domains’:
1.Citizenship and politics
a) How digital technology impacts on our autonomy, agency and privacy – illustrated by the paradox of
emancipation and control
b) Whether and how our understanding of citizenship is evolving in the digital age – for example whether
technology helps or hinders us in participating at individual and community levels
2.Communities and identities
a) How we define and authenticate ourselves in a digital age
b) What new forms of communities and work emerge as a result of digital technologies – for example new forms
of coordination including large-scale and remote collaboration
3.Communication and relationships
a) How our relationships are being shaped and sustained in and between various domains, including family and
work
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6. Project foci
• The project will focus on seven ‘domains’:
4. Health and wellbeing
a) Whether technology makes us healthier, better educated and more productive
5. Economy and sustainability
a) How do we construct the digital to be open to all, sustainable and secure?
b) What impacts might the automation of the future workforce bring?
6.Data and representation
a) How we live with and trust the algorithms and data analysis used to shape key features of our lives
7.Governance and security
a) What are the challenges of ethics, trust and consent in the digital age
b) How we define responsibility and accountability in the digital age
8. We also ran workshops on Work Automation, Digital Health and Robots in
Social Care
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7. Methods
• For each domain, the project will undertake:
• A Delphi panel review of international experts’ opinions on the state of the
art in digital-facing social research.
• A ‘concept mapping’ of identified literature using digital humanities tools
• A systematic review of a sample of the literature
• Engagement events with non-academic stakeholders from the public and
private sectors
• An assessment of the theory and methods applied in each domain
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8. What hath God wrought
First steps in the digital age…
La société numérique as the French say
9. Human communication in a technological age 2007
A long time ago in a world far, far way...
• Marshall McLuhan (1964-1968)
• The medium is the message...
• The global village…
10. Human communication in a technological age 2007
A long time ago in a world far, far way...
• No internet…
• No mobile phones…
• No satellite TV…
• No fax machines…
• No text messages…
• No social media…
11. Numbers of communications media from pre-
history to the present
Human communication in a technological age 2007
WritingLanguage
200,000 years
PrintWriting
8,000 years
Telegraph
Print
700 years
TelegraphPrint
700 years
Telegraph
Print
200 years
Telephone Internet
TV
“Social
Media”
150 years
Mass Newspapers
12. Global communication? Global village? Global culture?
New media 'destroy space and time'
New media create 'global culture'
New media allow global control and
communication in business and politics
New media will make us part of a
'global village'
13. Old communication? Old global village? Old global culture?
The telegraph will 'destroy space and time'
The telegraph will create 'global culture'
The telegraph will allow global control and
communication in business and politics
The telegraph will make us part of a
'global village'
14. Old communication? Old global village? Old global culture?
The telephone will 'destroy space and time'
The telephone will create 'global culture'
The telephone will allow global control and
communication in business and politics
The telephone will make us part of a
'global village'
15. Old communication? Old global village? Old global culture?
The television will 'destroy space and time'
The television will create 'global culture'
The television will allow global control and
communication in business and politics
The television will make us part of a
'global village'
16. Understanding digital society –
an interdisciplinary problem
Its all about purity and danger…
Digital is dangerously impure…
17. Third cultures and interdisciplinarity UKAIS 2015
Popper and the anthropologist…
18. Methodology and epistemology
Are certain problems inherently
interdisciplinary
and multidisciplinary?
What are the implications
of multi/inter disciplinarity?
What should
be a single discipline?
What are the core
features that define/
delineate approaches
to interdisciplinary research
The questions
What epistemological
positions are taken up in
interdisciplinary research?
What methodological
positions are taken up in
interdisciplinary research?
How are the material,
social, cultural and
technological constructed
in interdisciplinary
research?
What concepts and
theories can help us
assess these questions?
19. Methodology and epistemology
Is IS Research
interdisciplinary
and multidisciplinary?
What are the implications
of multi/inter disciplinarity?
Should IS Research
be a single discipline?
What are the core
features that define/
delineate approaches
to IS Research?
The questions
What epistemological
positions are taken up
in IS Research?
What methodological
positions are taken up
in IS Research?
How are the material,
social, cultural and
technological constructed
in IS Research?
What concepts and
theories can help us
assess these questions?
20. Its culture - stupid
(Care of James Carville/Bill Clinton, 1992)
21. Doing gender in 160 characters
Human communication in a technological age 2007
22. Doing gender in 160 characters
Human communication in a technological age 2007
23. Doing gender in 160 characters
Human communication in a technological age 2007
24. Doing gender in 160 characters
Human communication in a technological age 2007
25. Human communication in a technological age 2007
Culture and SMS
• Women interacting with women
• ff436 Hi "name" how r u? Hows uni? Have u got your results yet? How did u do? We
get ours next wed. Take care luv "name" xx
• ff456 Hi "name" hope ur havin fun makin pancakes. If u want 2 o monsters inc we r
goin 2moro. My housemates r callin me coz they want 2 leave but im not ready!
Luv H.
• ff466 Hiya how was ur weekend? Is the puppy ok? Have u got ur results yet? If so
how did u do? What time r u goin 2 the cinema 2nite? Let me no + ill be ready. "name" xx
• ff476 Hi m8, puppy is lovely so tiny. I got results got social p.49, equal opp 54 +
survey 62. How did u do? "name" cant go 2nite but said we should go start 8.30 I come 2u
8.
• ff486 Hi r u feelin better? "name" is coming 2 london + she has told "name". R u
definitely goin 2 drive from MK coz we r gonna but our coach tickets 2day. Let me no asap.
X.
• ff496 hi hows u? im good + feelin much better thanx! Just told my mum that I wood be
drivin to hatfield sat-she was not 2 impressed but it will grow on her! Hows sheff?
26. Human communication in a technological age 2007
Culture and SMS
• Women interacting with women
• ff436 Hi "name" how r u? Hows uni? Have u got your results yet? How did u do? We
get ours next wed. Take care luv "name" xx
• ff456 Hi "name" hope ur havin fun makin pancakes. If u want 2 o monsters inc we r
goin 2moro. My housemates r callin me coz they want 2 leave but im not ready!
Luv H.
• Men interacting with men
• mm32334 In headingley r u at home? Tripod srorry I'm late.
• mm32434 phoned matthew
• mm32534 PROJECTOR SORTED!
• mm32634 CHEERS WOT WOZ IT?
• mm32734 INTERNAL FUSE
• mm32834 Just playing a match call you in a bit
• mm32934 Its 2 loud, missed your call, am in club til 2.
27. Human communication in a technological age 2007
Culture and SMS
• Women interacting with women
• ff436 Hi "name" how r u? Hows uni? Have u got your results yet? How did u do? We get ours next wed. Take care luv "name" xx
• ff456 Hi "name" hope ur havin fun makin pancakes. If u want 2 o monsters inc we r goin 2moro. My housemates r callin me coz
they want 2 leave but im not ready! Luv H.
• Men interacting with men
• mm32334 In headingley r u at home? Tripod srorry I'm late.
• mm32434 phoned matthew
• Mixed gender interactions
• fm507 Morning gorgeous hows it going this morning? ( :
• mf517 Pissing down with rain feel a tad full from last night and missing you like hell. Whats it like up there?
• fm527 cold and raining but luckily I don’t have to go out. Missing you to like mad.
• mf537 And your up early again. Still should be able to get loads done. I aint got much to do today at the mo so time not going
well. Less than 2 weeks to go
• fm547 yeh hopefully its freezing up here put the heating on and waiting for it to heat up before I have a shower and get started.
Its not long really just seems like it.
• mf557 Your telling me. Its only been four days seems like forever.
• fm567 I know keep thinking I've been here at least a week and a half.
28. But it’s the economy - stupid
(Properly care of James Carville/Bill Clinton, 1992)
Well actually its Bourdieu – but that’s not as catchy…
29. Approaches to social class
• Measurement
• UK government and media industry measures
• NSSEC socio-economic scales
• NRS socio-economic-status scales
• Broader social theory
• Bourdieu
• Class and culture
• Habitus
• Hoggart – uses of literacy
30. Types of digital inequality
• Different types of divide/inequality
• Access to digital technology
• Access or not
• Different levels of access
• Differences in levels of use
• Some people use digital technology more than others
• Differences in types of use
• People use digital technology for different things
• Differences in benefits from use
• Some people get more value out of using digital technology
• Differences in hazards from use
• Some people suffer more harm than others form using the technology
38. Cluster analysis
Table 16: Seven potential user type clusters
Cluster
Factor mean
z-scores for
cluster
centroids 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Media Use -0.638 1.122 -0.693 0.899 0.775 0.465 -0.750
Information
seeking -0.698 0.505 -0.851 -0.460 0.946 0.804 0.801
Political
action -0.327 -0.016 -0.181 -0.501 2.889 0.465 -0.422
Formal
transactions 0.561 0.795 -1.154 -0.691 0.711 0.631 0.169
Social uses -0.328 1.275 -0.781 0.458 0.980 -0.722 0.035
Potential
descriptor
Formal
transaction
limited user
Non-
political
extensive
user
Limited
user
Social
media users
Political
extensive
user
Non-social
media
general
user
Information
seeking
limited
user
40. Digital social and cultural capital
• Digital Arts Space? Space of Digital
Inequity
• A complex and stark clash of:
• Material difference and inequality
• Social difference in access to
networked institutional resources
• Knowledge, experience and status
• Between:
• ‘performer/player’ and homeless
man
• the digital social networks online and
the material context of deprivation
• highly contrasting ‘lifeworlds’
(Lebenswelt) and ‘Habitus’
41. Digital cultural capital
• There clearly exist major differences in embodied cultural capital
• There are also likely major differences in linguistic capital – not maybe
in the sense originally defined by Bourdieu – but in ability with the
forms and content of digital discourses.
• Clearly there are major differences in the objectified cultural capital
of the objects both physical and digital between.
• Institutionalized cultural capital may be
of less overt relevance to date, but as digital
networks become central life it may.
46. The challenges not everyone gets to play –
online and offline
• 68% of social classes D&E are non-
users or limited users of digital
media
• 50% of social class A&B are
extensive users of the internet
• 80% of social classes D&E are
limited cultural consumers (single
format)
• 55% of social classes A&B are
extensive cultural consumers
(multiple formats)
51. Types of social media use and SE class –
Ofcom data
• Clear distinction by class in the
variety of SNS sites used
52. SNS usage forms are markers of class
• Level of social media use is still predominantly determined by age:
• But also class
• Proportion of users who are social media only is higher in lower SE class
groups
• But their levels of use are lower than higher socio-economic groups
• Social media use clusters with popular rather than “high” culture
attendance in MJCA
• = Lower cultural capital
• Social media use levels map onto vector for performative participation in
MJCA
• Variety of social media use closely follows SE class groups
54. Frame, A., & Brachotte, G. (eds). (2015). Citizen Participation and
Political Communication in a Digital World. New York: Routledge.
Frame, A., Mercier, A., Brachotte, G., & Thimm, C. (eds). (2016).
Tweets from the Campaign Trail: Researching Candidates’ Use of
Twitter during the European Parliamentary Elections. Frankfurt:
Peter Lang.
Useful books – EU perspective
66. Automation and augmentation
• Automation
• Replacement of a person with a computer program or machine that does the
same job:
• Algorithm
• Robot (originally a Czech word for ”forced labour”)
• Augmentation
• Supplementing human capacity
• All telecommunications systems – from phone to Facebook – augment our ability to
communicate
• VR/AR
• Most software – e.g. Excel augments our ability to do mathematics
67. Jobs likely to be automated
• First wave:
• Semi-skilled and skilled manual jobs
• Standardized factory work
• Second wave: routine administrative, mathematical and regulated decision
making jobs:
• Administration
• Legal
• Accountancy
• Routine medical
• Relatively safe – but likely “augmented”:
• ‘People’ work – service, health care
• Complex environments – digging the road, complex medical
• Creative – from arts to science
70. The uses of digital
• Digital literacy, culture and everyday life…
71. Conclusion
• There have been previous communication
technology revolutions – but current rates of
change are far, far greater
• These changes will impact home lives, work
lives, business and governments, but as with
previous technologies we may not know the
details of 'how' until afterwards
• We do have to rethink the discipline of
communication studies, but we may not
need to throw out older theories – though
they do need reviewing, and some even
need dusting off and re-using.
• As for the future we can only speculate...