Intro slidecast, jankowski, internet practice, part 2, draft4, 18 feb2012

  DOING DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP:DISCOVERING AND USING DIGITAL TOOLS IN ACADEMIC WORK

INTERNET PRACTICE: PART 2

Informal Introduction

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences

23 February 2012

Nicholas W. JankowskiAdjunct Professor, University of Ljubljana

Associate ResearcherKNAW e-Humanities GroupAmsterdam, the Netherlandsnickjan@xs4all.nl

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Jankowski: short bio

Nicholas W. Jankowski is Associate Researcher at the e-Humanities Group in the Netherlands. He has been researching community and new media since the mid-1970s. He has co-edited some half-dozen books on community media, research methodology and new media. Recent volumes include: Internet and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning (Routledge, 2007), e-Research: Transformation of Scholarly Practice (Routledge, 2009), and The Long History of New Media (Peter Lang, 2011). Jankowski is co-editor of the journal New Media & Society. He is founding board member of the European Institute of Communication and Culture (Euricom) and editor of the Hampton Press book series Euricom Monographs: New Media and Democracy.

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Resources for Election 2012: The Campaign for Social Media

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Top 10 Tools for Researchers(Wayne Barry, Wiki, 2008)

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Steps in Scholarship

• Searching• Processing• Metadata; reference management• Annotations, note-taking

• Sharing• Social bookmarking• Virtual meetings

• Preparing• Mindmapping• Collaborative authorship

• Presenting• Visualizing• Webinars, podcasts

• Publishing & preserving

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Course Features• Sessions in English• Workshop style; not a seminar (but very intensive)

• Limited formal writing; instead: exercises with ‘building blocks’• Emphasis: exploration of & practice using digital scholarly tools

But: • quality scholarship: independent of tools (digital or analogue)• quality scholarship related to:

• addressing a problem from theoretical perspective• presentating relevant literature & evidence• formulating an argument• drawing conclusions extending beyond what already known

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Course Website(Microsoft SharePoint)

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Concluding Remarks• Check out the hyperlinks on the syllabus, available at http

://tinyurl.com/79jvofj

• Practice (academic) blogging• Enjoy Part 1 of the course!!!

Thank you!Nick Jankowskinickjan@xs4all.nl

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