Info Trolling at the Ivory Tower

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Guest lecture for ETCV 411, examining the epistemology of crowdsourced information and the limits of traditional academic models. How do information and publishing cycles work; what are their roles in encouraging or hindering certain types of information; and how can more democratized crowdsourced models be used for education, and what are their drawbacks? Download PPT for notes included with the slides.

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INFO TROLLING AT THE IVORY TOWER

Nicole Pagowsky, MLISInstructional Services LibrarianUniversity of Arizona Libraries

pagowskyn@u.library.arizona.edu

ETCV411: Guest Lecture, Sept 20, 2012

Outline

1. History of publishing2. Curation vs aggregation3. The information cycle4. Encyclopedias, Wikipedia5. Crowdsourcing6. Teaching with these tools: Theory (Info

Lit)7. Teaching with these tools: Praxis, other

models

History of Publishing

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Curation vs Aggregation

Information Cycle

http://harker.libguides.com/internationalissues

Traditional Encyclopedias

Wikipedia

Crowdsourcing

Information Literacy

Teaching with Crowdsourcing

Research as Conversation

New Models

PersonalLearningNetworks

Social Tagging

Remixing

Recap of Crowdsourcing

PROS CONS

Need to think critically

Greater variety of voices heard: diversity

Moves through information cycle more rapidly

Newer, contemporary ideas easier to research

Need to think critically

Quality control lacking

Who has authority? Incorrect info as

historical record Information overload Hoaxes and pranks

easier to accomplish

Nicole Pagowsky, MLISInstructional Services LibrarianUniversity of Arizona Libraries

pagowskyn@u.library.arizona.edu

References

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