Digital scholar 2

The Digital ScholarNew Tools for Writing and ResearchAugust 14, 2012Holly Willis / Elizabeth RamseyInstitute for Multimedia Literacy

academic branding?scholarly community?research ecologies?

Choosing terms…

Why an “ecology”?

new forms:researchscholarly communication

We are moving away from a transmission model of communication that presumes a sender and receiver…

Why an “ecology”?

…to defining systems and information architectures which are participatory, collaborative and extensible…

legitimationaccessdisseminationpreservationcuration

legitimationaccessdisseminationpreservationcuration

reputationcommunitysharingdynamiccollaborative+

Christine Borgman, Scholarship in the Digital Age

Algorithm“a machine for the motion of parts”

Alex Galloway, Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture

metaphors

Expressive Processingnot about authoring, but about “defining the rules for system behavior”

Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Expressive Processing

metaphors

* The Labyrinth Project

transformative scholarship

* Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

transformative scholarship

Pat O’Neill - Tracing the Decay of Fiction

Norman Klein - Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles

* Alliance for Networking Visual Culture

transformative scholarship

transformative scholarship

Florian Thalhofer, Korsakow System

* Digitalculturebooks University of Michigan Press

transformative scholarship

author

data process

users

Noah Wardrip-Fruin, in Expressive Processing

profile-- Google yourself-- think about your name-- consider your image-- get another email account-- diverse components:

public/private

profile“One of the things the digital era affords us as scholars is the ability to both deliver to a wider audience, and develop a reputation independent of institutional structures.”

honest appraisal

-- time?-- interest?-- high stakes or low stakes?-- user style

social/academic

-- Academia.edu-- Google+-- LinkedIn-- Mendeley-- About.me-- (these are low stakes)

website-- bio / CV / research interests-- continuous-- higher stakes

Robert Hernandezwww.webjournalist.org

alexleavitt.com

blogging

blogging-- Topic-- Goal-- Post versus essay-- Schedule-- Academic Blogs Portal

http://www.academicblogs.org

Henry JenkinsConfessions of an Aca-Fan

www.henryjenkins.org

danah boydapophenia

www.zephoria.org

Anne GallowayPurse Lip Square Jaw

www.purselipsquare jaw.org

blogging“For me, it comes down to making things public in a way that is part an experiment in a kind of open-source design practice, part as a way to manage a torrent of ephemeral material, snippets, thoughts, sketches, cobbled together prototypes, Shandy-esque projects that start and then stop and then start and then divert — a collection and idea circulation machine.”

- Julian Bleecker

microblogging

wikis

wikis

citation-- to organize and manage citations-- researching “in public”

tagging

notes/curation

presentation

RSS

EducauseNew Media ConsortiumHASTACIthakaMacArthur Foundationfor Digital Media and Learning

thank you!Holly Willis

hwillis@cinema.usc.edu

Elizabeth Ramseyeramsey@cinema.usc.edu