Part 2 of this post. I had to stop writing because the battery on my phone was dying. Though the fact that I can write part 1 of the post (on my phone in a coffee shop in Manchester while waiting for a train) and write part 2 of the post (from a desktop computer … Continue reading »
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Continuous Publishing, Open Research and Impact
Some initial thoughts for a talk i’m doing tomorrow: – what goes into producing a chapter or a paper? Lots of ideas, conversations, extracts from texts, chunks of writing etc. some of these have a social existence, in so far as they emerge out of formal or informal academic conversations, however most are private and … Continue reading »
The Transformation of Academic Practice – Interview with Martin Weller, author of the Digital Scholar
In this podcast I talk to Martin Weller, author of the Digital Scholar, about the changes which digital technology is bringing about within academia and where they might ultimately lead. It’ll be up on Sociological Imagination at the end of this week or early next week.
Use of web 2.0 tools amongst UK researchers
The research is two years old so it’s very possible this has changed dramatically but I’ve been preoccupied with this for the last few days: http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/use-and-relevance-web-20-researchers
The Arrogance of Publishers vs. Academic Culture – Why the Outcome Is Virtually Certain
Technologists also believe that publishing is transportable — anyone can be a publisher. All you need are some basic skills, access to a blogging platform, and some determination. While for certain forms of expression this can be true — this blog is an example — for a complex organism like an academic press or an … Continue reading »
Nine resources for academics getting started with Twitter
Register for Twitter and find researchers to follow Engage with your network on Twitter “Why do you find Twitter useful as an academic?” The LSE’s list of academic twitter users Support, engagement, visibility and personalised news: Twitter has a lot to offer academics if we look past its image problem 100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics … Continue reading »
Multi-author blogging resources for academics
An introduction to multi-author blogging Publishing on the web as a researcher Single author vs multi-author blogging “Blogging is quite simply, one of the most important things that an academic should be doing right now” Multi-author academic blogs are the way of the future Ten Commandments for Editing Someone’s Work Cite or site? An article which … Continue reading »
Mass Observation, Quantified Self and Human Nature
I woke up this morning to a great feature (at 7:38am) on Radio 4 about the 75th birthday of the Mass Observation project. The project was founded in 1937 by a team of young researchers with the intention of creating an ‘anthropology of ourselves’. Both through professional observers and the large scale recruitment of respondents from … Continue reading »
Digital tools and the transformation of scholarship
Digital content, distributed via a global network, has laid the foundation for potential changes in academia, but it is when the third element of openness is added in that more fundamental challenges to existing practice are seen, as I hope to demonstrate throughout this book. Let us take an example to illustrate this combination of … Continue reading »
New NCRM funded network of methodological innovation – New social media, new social science?
NatCen Social Research, Sage and the Oxford Internet Institute will be launching our new network for methodological innovation at the end of May. The network will explore whether social science researchers should embrace social media and, if we do, what the implications are for our methods and practice? We know that social media tools are … Continue reading »
