New media and digital research literacies
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This document discusses new media and digital research literacies. It describes various digital tools and platforms for scholarly communication and research dissemination, including blogs, social networks, slidesharing, and altmetrics. It also addresses how digital technologies can transform research through features like replicability, mutability, connectivity, and portability. Deeper issues are explored around what constitutes "digital" and how digital technologies may alter social interactions and literacies.
New media and digital research literacies
- 1. New media and digital research literacies Professor Paul Maharg paulmaharg.com/slides
- 2. preview 1. Digital research literacies 2. Scholarly peer networks: SSRN, Academia, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, CarbonMade 3. Blogs 4. Slideshare 5. Twitter 6. Bibliometrics > altmetrics
- 3. digital media Pro Con Dssemination Can be time-consuming & addictive Gathering, sorting, archiving of digital Apps disappear or go corporate information Builds academic profile through Altmetrics Can encourage narcissism & grandiosity if used as vanity projects Facilitates the Open – open access, open education, OE resources Privacy can be an issue (cf Facebook) Supports knowledge as a public good
- 4. deeper issues What’s digital? •Specific devices, networks, assemblages? •Technical, educational, research affordances, modes of text and search, specific skills, competences, practices, environments? How does digital alter social? •Eg distributed communities, socio-material understandings, means of production & modes of use How does digital alter literacies? •Eg artefacts and practices, formal and informal contexts of research, visual artefacts, digital curation.
- 5. transforming features of digital… • Replicability • Mutability • Connectivity • Instantaneity (& the ‘nearly now’) • Portability • Identity (Jones 2013, 162-65)
- 6. staff pages • Almost no social sharing • Static pages • No reference to academic tools or modes of communication • Social media-free • Occasionally useful for linking to repositories to view ‘versions of record’. Or email addresses…
- 7. academic/professional media • SSRN • Google Scholar: http://bit.ly/1umHCmP • Academia: bit.ly/1oaK9hj • ResearchGate: http://bit.ly/10k3dyE • LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/1DSQvnn • Carbonmade: http://bit.ly/1GfMZY4 • Zotero • Evernote
- 8. Blogging http://paulmaharg.com 17.3.2005 > present. Used for: •Dissemination of ideas & research •Construction yard for sections of papers & articles •Sky-writing (Steven Harnard) •Identity formation •On Blawg
- 9. Slidedecks & Twitter http://slideshare.net/paulmaharg Used for: •Dissemination of slidedecks •Set alerts for others’ presentations •Re Twitter, use third-party apps & aggregators, eg TweetDeck to manage the dataflow
- 12. altmetrics See altmetrics.com: ‘the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing and informing scholarship’
- 13. Why? For all these reasons & more… • Quantify and document research impact • Justify future requests for funding • Quantify return on research investment • Discover how research findings are being used • Identify similar research projects • Identify possible collaborators • Determine if research findings are duplicated, confirmed, corrected, improved or repudiated • Determine if research findings were extended • Confirm that research findings were properly attributed/credited • Demonstrate that research findings are resulting in meaningful health outcomes • Discover community benefit as a result of research findings • Progress reports • Promotion dossiers Adapted from the Becker Model, @ https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment/ model
- 14. references BIALL Legal Information Literacy Statement, http://www.biall.org.uk/data/files/BIALL_Legal_Information_Literacy_Statement_July_2012.pdf Cheston, C.C., Flickinger, T.E., Chisholm, M.S. (2013). Social media use in medical education: A systematic review, Academic Medicine. 88, 6, 893-901. Holmes, K. (2014). Going beyond bibliometric and altmetric counts to understand impact. http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/2014-05/going-beyond-bibliometric-and-altmetric-counts-understand- impact#sthash.4stanFFN.dpuf Jones, C. (2013). The digital university: a concept in need of definition. In R. Goodfellow, M.R.Lea, eds, Literacy in the Digital University. Critical Perspectives on Learning, Scholarship and Technology. SRHE, Routledge, London, 162-172. Konkiel, S. (2014) Playing with altmetrics. http://theresearchwhisperer.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/altmetrics-services/# more-3175 SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy (2011). The Core Model.http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/coremodel.pdf Veletsianos, G. (2013). Open practices and identity: Evidence from researchers and educators’ social media participation. British Journal of Education Technology, 44, 4, 639-51.
- 15. Email:paul.maharg@anu.edu.au Web: paulmaharg.com Slides: paulmaharg.com/slides