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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
* 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
* 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
citation-- to organize and manage citations-- researching “in public”
tagging
notes/curation
presentation
RSS
EducauseNew Media ConsortiumHASTACIthakaMacArthur Foundationfor Digital Media and Learning
