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Seminar Meeting 5 Collaborative Research Projects
(concluding half-hour)
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social SciencesSeminar: New Media and Society
24 March 2010
Nicholas W. JankowskiAdjunct Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Visiting Fellow, Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS) for the Humanities & Social Sciences
Amsterdam, the Netherlandsnickjan@xs4all.nl
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Agenda Wednesday, 24 March (17.30-18.00)(after presentation on research collaboratories)
1. Project parameters2. Teams & topics3. Tasks & tools: off the beaten path4. Concluding comments
– Next week: no meeting– blogs
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General parameters: Collaborative Research Projects
• Purpose– 'discover' & become familiar with a wide range of resources available on the Internet
related to new media topics. – experience a collaboratory exercise
• Results– group report– online presentation– database of references
• Weight– 25% course grade
• Deadlines– Report & database: Monday, April 12, 17.00– Presentation: Wednesday, April 14, 16.00
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Topics & Teams
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Tasks & tools (re collaboration)
• Communicating• Searching• Note-taking• Writing• Referencing• Presenting
Ranking: *** = excellent & worth exploring
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Communicating
• Synchronous– Face-to-face– Audio: telephone conference call, Skype– Video conference, e.g. WebEx
• Asynchronous– Email– Discussion list
• Google Groups • Yahoo! Groups
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Searching 1 (just a few)• Databases
– Publishers• Sage Online ***• Cambridge
– Libraries, e.g., WorldCat ***– Repositories
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) ***• Ranking Web of World Repositories
• Online journals: catalogues• Research centers, researchers
– Hastac ***– OII ***– Berkman Center ***– ICT&S– danah boyd ***
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Searching 2forums, discussion / mailing lists
– ECREA ***– SLED– Slrl– Air-l ***– Ciresearchers– Humanist Discussion Group ***– IAMCR– Web4lib ***– Democracies Online– iDC– Incom-l
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Searching 3
• Blog lists, e.g. Technorati
• Exceptional cluster: Google tools– Google Docs ***– Google Alerts ***– Google Scholar– Google Books– Google Blogs– Google Wave
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Identifying & note-taking
• Social bookmarking sites – Stumbleupon– Twine– Citeulike ***– Delicious– diigo ***– Top 20 social bookmarking sites
• Collaborative annotation tools– Zotero ***
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Writing collaboratively
• Google Docs ***• Zoho ***• Wikis
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Referencing
• Zotero ***• Mendeley ***• RefWorks ***
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Presenting & publishing
• Prezi• Jing• Scribd ***• SlideShare ***
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Concluding comments
• Next week: no online meeting
• Blogs: keep on blogging (& commenting) • Homework for 7 April: to be announced (Fri. 26 Mar.)
• Course: social software & learning
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