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- 1. New Knowledge Ecosystems { Information & Authority Today
- 2. What is happening to knowledge? How is knowledge and information changing? How are traditional sources of knowledge transforming? How are these sources being challenged and transformed?
- 3. What is happening to our traditional knowledge sources in the digital age? What is knowledge today? How do newspapers function as these have moved from print to the digital space? How has networked knowledge changed what we value? What happens to our traditional sources of authority that we’ve grown to trust as a society?
- 4. Our panelists: Our panelists represent a continuum of perspectives on knowledge – and what counts as knowledge. All hail from backgrounds privileging traditional knowledge (e.g. information published by reputable publishers, be they book, scholarly journals, or news journalism)… Yet each has found an innovative way to embrace the participation and collaboration of many. And to create new systems of value around knowledge.
- 5. What is knowledge today? Author and Internet theorist David Weinberger begins with the question, “what is knowledge today?” addressed in his latest book, Too Big to Know. How has the digital space changed what we know? And how we know it? How can we make the best use of many participants who all have something to share? See David Weinberger discussing his latest book. Here he is talking about how knowledge today is changing to accommodate the digital space and the participation of many in space formerly occupied by a select few.
- 6. Information scientist, co-founder of total-impact, and coiner of the term “altmetrics” – the creation and study of new metrics based on the social web (Twitter, Mendeley, Facebook) for analyzing and informing research and scholarship. How can create new hierarchies of knowledge beyond the traditional resources? What if the established models don’t recognize what non-traditional groups value? Co-founder (with Heather Piwowar) of total-impact, a real-time recommendation and collaborative filtering system for research drawing on social media tools. See the Vimeo clip of Jason Priem discussing altmetrics
- 7. Lissa Harris Journalist, science writer, and digital media start-up principal Lissa Harris is the former managing editor of urban alt-weekly Boston’s Weekly Dig moved to New York State to co-found The Watershed Post, a rural online digital news site. Harris and company met their definitive challenge when a set a tropical storms decimated the Catskills. The Watershed Post stayed online providing moment-to- moment emergency coverage to its constituents when traditional sources couldn’t meet the challenge. How can existing knowledge spaces like newspapers and print journalism be retooled for the digital age? Does citizen journalism work? How can community participation increase value while retaining authority? Click here for a clip of Harris being interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now about The Watershed Post
- 8. Marguerite Avery is a ten-year veteran of scholarly publishing currently grappling with the questions of how to retool a conservative system of information to accommodate the changing patterns of knowledge producers and consumers. She is likely the most conservative on the panel, with strong ties to the traditional model of peer review, publications authenticated by the imprimatur of a publishing body, and more traditional means of dissemination. However, she understands that information seeking behavior is changing radically and is one of the more radical voices within the scholarly publishing community advocating for change in process of publication. She is exploring new forms of digital publishing as a Fellow at the metaLAB at Harvard University. How do we know what we know is true? How can we separate knowledge from the static produced by everyone?
- 9. Thank you! Thanks very much for considering this panel. We look forward to presenting a range of views on the topic of how we know what we know in this time of diverse, and widely available, knowledge.
Editor's Notes
- Networked knowledge
- We all look online for information, whether it is a train schedule or for the latest research and developments on any possible subject. And this space allows for so many contributors and perspectives. But how do we know what to trust? Who is providing the most accurate information? This differs greatly from the knowledge landscape of a few decades ago, not to mention five years ago.
- David Weinberger starts us off with the question “what is knowledge today? This is a lengthy question, certainly, - and one worthy of a book or three. But covered in his latest work Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room. Here is a link to his talk on the book – and his topic for the panel – given this past March in Berlin. - see David Weinberger’s video on the Visual Resources section of this proposal under “Other resources link”http://video.nextconf.eu/v.ihtml?source=share&photo_id=5056531
- The next speaker is Jason Priem. He is a PhD student in Information Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and co-founder of total-impact, a His work demonstrates numerous points made by Weinberger about how knowledge is social, and the traditional (e.g. print) conduits of information distribution are not adequate. Priem, along with total-impact co-founder Heather Piwowar, have created tools to measure “altmetrics” – a real-time recommendation and collaborative filtering system which draws from social media tools such as Twitter and blogs. If you want the truly cutting-edge information and research metrics, altmetrics are what you need to find it.
- Journalist Lissa Harris is the former managing editor of an urban alternative newsweekly, Boston’s The Weekly Dig, and co-founder of rural online digital newsite,The Watershed Post. In late August 2011, Harris and The Watershed Post met their definitive challenge when a set of tropical storms and hurricanes decimated the Catskills and the territory of the news operation. When all other forms of communication were lost, The Watershed Post stayed online and provided moment-to-moment emergency coverage to its constituents in this vast rural area of NY state (about the size of the state of Connecticut). Harris and WP co-founder, Julia Reischel, collated disaster information submitted by the community, coordinated with FEMA (FEMA actually called them), and provided the source of emergency information.
- Marguerite Avery has worked in the scholarly publishing space for over a decade and although she is committed to only publishing authoritative information, she realizes the extreme limitations of the current system and the barriers to new knowledge it erects. Avery is the most conservative on the panel, with strong ties to the traditional model of peer review, publications authenticated by the imprimatur of a publishing body, and more traditional means of dissemination. However, she understands that information seeking behavior is changing radically and is one of the more radical voices within the scholarly publishing community advocating for change in process of publication.