On Academic Uses of Social Media and Blogging as Public Engagement
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Following with the sharing of my notes on academic or scholarly social media (see my previous post on why academic social media is political here), on this post I'll be inserting scans from my notes on public engagement. I have started with part I but others will follow soon, I hope.
You can also see the image of Part I on the original tweeted picture.
Sorry the handwriting is more awful than usual; I wrote it on the London underground!
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Journalism and academia; an impedance mismatch?
At one point in "Journalism and Digital Media" (C-Span) Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland; Global Editor at Large; Reuters) talks about "the lack of a common space" and somewhat later on (just after the 41 minute mark) makes a lovely point about how social media like Twitter sometimes surfaces very fine academic papers via outlets such as Thompson, Reuters, and Bloomberg. What I've been working on (for years and years) is a way of bridging that disconnect by tapping into individual's urge to discuss, or debate, or converse. I chose an approach that focuses on discourse. What if there was a "space" (i.e. a web system, in the sense that Wikipedia is a "space) where the nuts and bolts of issues could be explored at a very fine grain?
"Everyone can have their own opinion, but not everyone can have their own facts" is something I approached using cog-psych and historiography. (I'm resisting the urge to bring in post-modernism!) What I realized is that, by exploring the "facts", we end up exploring the subjective narrative that gives material its meaning.
This by way of greets. :-)
--ben
bridging that disconnect
Hi Ben, thank you for your comment! Thanks very much as well for the reference, which was unknown to me. Loved the idea, we are on the same page here... cheers!