Social Media Summer Workshops. Workshop 2: Sharing and Managing Work Online. Jubilee Graduate Centre, University of Nottingham. 2 August 2012, 12.00-2.00pm.
DUST OF SNOW_BY ROBERT FROST_EDITED BY_ TANMOY MISHRA
Summer Workshop 2
1. Social Media Summer Workshops
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2. Social Media Summer Workshops
Workshop 1: Social Networking and Collaboration26 July, 12.00-2.00pm
Social media cultures and academic practices
Digital identity
Networking, information sourcing and collaborative working – Twitter, SNS, wikis &
online community sites
Workshop 2: Sharing and Managing Work Online2 August, 12.00-2.00pm
Informal dissemination and sharing of work – blogging and content sharing sites
Managing content – social bookmarking, referencing & bibliographies, curation
tools & RSS
4. SOURCE, MANAGE
NETWORKING
& SHARE RESOURCES
COLLABORATIVE
DISSEMINATION
WORKING
5. SOURCE, MANAGE NETWORKING
& SHARE RESOURCES & DISCUSSION
RSS Readers
Facebook
Social Bookmarking LinkedIn
Twitter
& Referencing Google+
Facebook Groups
Content Sharing Sites
‘Ning’ Sites
MOOCs
Wikis Blogs
COLLABORATIVE Google Docs
DISSEMINATION
WORKING
8. Individual Research
Professional Group /
Development Department
Research Events &
Project Conferences
12. Bacteria bind
To cells in lungs; but does it
Matter? I don’t know.
Dissertation Haiku http://dissertationhaiku.wordpress.com/
13. Joel Miller | Microstructure-Property relationships in Ti2448 components produced by Selective Laser Melting: A Love Story
http://vimeo.com/30299036
16. What?
Type of research work / activities / content etc.
Where?
Social media – platforms and tools
When?
Stages of project / study / tenure
How might this support / compromise formal publication?
How?
Type of format / media etc.
Who (to/with)?
Audience – academic / discipline / public
Stakeholders – participants / partners
17. Blogging: Platforms
Wordpress
Complex, open source, Content Management System (CMS).
Highly customisable (plug-ins)
Developer-hosted and self-hosted options
Blogger
Mid-range blogging platform
Limited customisability
‘Tumblogs’
Simple editing platforms - ‘lifestreaming’ and mobile friendly
e.g. Tumblr Posterous
Blog Technologies
Increasingly multimodal – RSS feeds, links, tags, images and video
Non-textual formats: video blogging, podcasting
18. Blogging: Blog Writing
Historical Culture
Biography, activism and specialism
Informal, personal and subjective
Writing Skills
Regularity – writing discipline
Informality – experimentation with different writing forms / styles
Generality – engaging a wider (non-specialist) audience
Contexts
Emphasis on personal perspectives and experiences
Wider contexts – socio-cultural, political and economic
19. Blogging: The ‘Blogosphere’
The ‘Blogging Community’
Reading, linking to, and commenting on each others blogs
Peer Review
Informal, distributed and unreliable
Establish sustainable channels of discussion, feedback and peer support
Boundary Crossing
Extend beyond local research community – geographically and disciplinary
Blogs as ‘Boundary Objects’ (Efimova, 2009)
New interdisciplines and specialist fields (Thrift, 2011)
Efimova, L. (2009). Passion at work: blogging practices of knowledge workers. Enschede,
Netherlands: Novay.
Thrift, N. (2011). The Power of Blogs in Forming New Fields of International Study. The Chronicle of
Higher Education.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/the-power-of-blogs-in-forming-new-fields-of-international-study/28638
20. Blogging: Contextualising Process
Blogs as Narrative
Journal-style entry provides narrative structure (e.g. research project / PhD)
‘Following’ blogs
Blogs as Documentation
Contextualised personal / professional development
Chronological (time-based) – by date, month, year
Conceptual (theme-based) – by category and tagging
Blogs as Reflective Process
Development of ideas / concepts / projects
Cross-referencing of posts and self-commenting
21. Blogging: Relationship with Formal Publication
Work-in-progress – shape ideas,
concepts and methodologies
Draw on personal perspectives
and experiences
Contribution to development of
BLOGS formal publication – thesis, journal
article or report
Develop smaller, specific
components of text FORMAL
Summaries and specific parts PUBLICATION
Informal, personal and subjective
Engage a wider (non-specialist)
audience
22. Blogging: Barriers to Sharing
Issues of Disclosure
Sharing ideas, concepts and methodologies
Questionable legitimacy in establishing intellectual property
Compromise of formal publication opportunities
Issues of Academic Competency
Lack of formal recognition of peer review
Exposing academic ‘immaturity’
Issues of Academic Reputation
‘Trivial and egotistical’
Departmental / institutional responsibility
23. Blogging: Blog Content
Reports on academic events, including workshops, seminars, and
conferences (including ‘live-blogging’)
Book and article reviews
Commentary on ‘academic life’ including teaching and research projects
Research methods and methodologies, and academic writing
Using research tools and software
Development of theoretical and conceptual ideas
Training and professional development
Emotional development and well-being related to academic practice
24. Based on: Jacob E Bardram | The Fish Model (2007) http://www.itu.dk/people/bardram/pmwiki/?n=Main.ArtPhD
27. Blogging: Group Blogs
Guest posting
Institutional / departmental blogs or project blogs
Opportunity to experience blogging without commitment to setting up own platform
Less pressure to blog regularly
Potential to reach a wider audience with greater impact
Increased responsibility of representation
Commitment to ‘house styles’ and editorial control (content and format) and
authorisation
Potential issues of ownership and copyright
29. Syndication and Aggregation
The navigation and management of digital environments through the
syndication of multiple sites, tools and services.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
Subscribe to blogs, websites, podcasts etc.
Types of RSS / Feed Readers
Desktop-based
Browser-based
Web-based
31. Tagging: Folksonomies
Folksonomy (Vander Wal, 2004)
‘Folk’ + ‘Taxonomy’
Knowledge resource created through the process of tagging
Taxonomy / Ontology Folksonomy
Top-down Bottom-up
Vertical / Hierarchical Horizontal / Non-hierarchical
Created by ‘Experts’ Created by many
Each ‘thing’ exists in one place Things exist in more than one
place
33. Tagging: Theory and Context
Everything is Miscellaneous
David Weinberger, 2007
Social / democratic production
Interconnectivity of social media
Increased information flow – tools and strategies
Information R/Evolution
Michael Wesch
Digital Ethnography, Kansas State
University
34. Tagging: Bookmarking Practices
Personal Bookmarking
Personal organisation / management of web-based content
Searchable – Tag List / Cloud
Further Organisation Tools – Bundle Tags / Multiple Sites
Group / Collaborative Bookmarking
Participatory and democratic knowledge base
Social Bookmarking
Use as search engine – keyword / user
Search other users bookmarks
Subscriptions, networks RSS feeds etc.
Tagging (in)consistency – intra-personal and inter-personal
Examples: Delicious Pinboard
Tagging also used in blogging, and content sharing sites (e.g. Flickr
YouTube and Slideshare)
35. Content Sharing Sites
Sharing of academic content in different formats / media
Dissemination of work to a wider audience
Features
Tagging and annotation of content
Playlists, subscriptions, favourites
Social networking and commenting
Content can be embedded on external sites (e.g. blogs)
Networking Sites e.g. LinkedIn Academia
Papers / Reports e.g. Scribd
Presentations e.g. Slideshare
Images e.g. Flickr
Video e.g. YouTube Vimeo
Web Resources e.g. Evernote Pinterest
36. Social Bibliography / Reference & Citation
Personal and social management of academic papers and references
Synchronisation between browser, desktop and web based programmes
‘One-click’ referencing of web-based content and bibliographic libraries
Collaboration through group-based and networking activities
Examples: CiteULike Zotero Mendeley
37. Events, Seminars and Conferences
Supporting academic events before, during and after
Projects (e.g. launch events) and departments (open days etc.)
Networking
Pre-conference and post-conference
Conference Material
Content (abstracts, biographies etc.)
Information (venue etc.)
Presentations
Repurposing (Slideshare etc.)
External audiences and contexts
Presentation notes and slidecasts
38. Events, Seminars and Conferences
Recording / Documentation
Live streams – embedded into websites / social media e.g. Ustream
Live broadcast / post-event resource
Video / audio / presentations etc. – on mainstream and social media platforms
Webinars / web conferencing e.g. Eluminate Big Blue Button
Live-blogging – informal documentation
Post-event blogging – reports and reflections
Hashtags
Twitter – live tweets
Display - Twitter walls /streams e.g. Twitterfall
The Twitter ‘backchannel’
Aggregating across platforms Twitter, blog posts, photos (e.g. Flickr)
Aggregating tweets e.g. Storify
41. Resources
Identifying appropriate tools and platforms and evaluating their affordances
Negotiating institutional, proprietary, and open-source resources
Training and Shared Practice
Identifying appropriate training needs and opportunities for shared practice
Lifelong learning and professional development contexts
Developing potential for individual, participatory and collaborative design
Digital Literacies
Developing new socio-technical workflows
Negotiating new academic communities and networks – boundary crossing
and interdisciplines
Recognising shifts in academic protocols - new modes and means of
production, peer review and knowledge resources
Adapting to new practices in academic integrity and responsibility -
referencing and attribution of digital sources and artefacts
Understanding emerging multimedia and multimodal practices
Managing online identities and reputation
43. Martin Weller
The Digital Scholar: How
Technology Is Transforming
Scholarly Practice
Bloomsbury Academic
(2011)
http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/DigitalScholar_9781849666275
/book-ba-9781849666275.xml