new media and digital research literacies

New mediaand digital research literacies

Professor Paul Mahargpaulmaharg.com/slides

preview1. Digital research literacies2. Scholarly peer networks: SSRN, Academia, ResearchGate,

Google Scholar, LinkedIn, CarbonMade3. Blogs4. Slideshare5. Twitter6. Bibliometrics > altmetrics

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digital mediaPro Con

Dssemination Can be time-consuming & addictive

Gathering, sorting, archiving of digital information

Apps disappear or go corporate

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

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deeper issuesWhat’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 useHow does digital alter literacies?•Eg artefacts and practices, formal and informal contexts of research, visual artefacts, digital curation.

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transforming features of digital…• Replicability• Mutability• Connectivity• Instantaneity (& the ‘nearly now’)• Portability• Identity

(Jones 2013, 162-65)

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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…

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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

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Blogging

http://paulmaharg.com17.3.2005 > present. Used for:•Dissemination of ideas & research•Construction yard for sections of papers & articles•Sky-writing (Steven Harnard)•Identity formation•On Blawg

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Slidedecks & Twitter

http://slideshare.net/paulmahargUsed for:•Dissemination of slidedecks•Set alerts for others’ presentations•Re Twitter, use third-party apps & aggregators, eg TweetDeck to manage the dataflow

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altmetrics

See altmetrics.com: ‘the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing and informing scholarship’

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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

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referencesBIALL Legal Information Literacy Statement, http://www.biall.org.uk/data/files/BIALL_Legal_Information_Literacy_Statement_July_2012.pdfCheston, 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.dpufJones, 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.

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Email:paul.maharg@anu.edu.auWeb: paulmaharg.comSlides: paulmaharg.com/slides

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