Description

This week the focus is about how the digital has influenced scholarly practices. This is much more about your personal outlook on this idea within your field.

How important are access (being able to obtain) and access (being able to be understood by multiple audiences) to your research?

If misinterpretation is inevitable in public spaces, what can scholars do to protect themselves or more importantly, what institutional support is needed?

How are scholarship practices changing with the digital?

What does digital scholarship afford you?

Activities

Week 4 intro video.
There are 2 readings this week.
Share with us an article from your field / discipline that can be understood by those outside your discipline. (You can do this through Twitter (#DigPINS) or in Slack.
1. Make sure it is accessible to anyone (not behind a paywall), otherwise it can be from a journal, a blog, or any other source you think it is a worthy contribution to your field.
Synchronous Twitter Chat around Digital Scholarship – Thursday 3pm EST.
- Here are some basics if you have not participated before:
  1. Using something like Tweetdeck.com or Hootsuite.com makes it easier to see the stream of the chat (#DigPINS) and notifications.
  2. The moderator, me, will post a question every 15 minutes. These are prescheduled, so they will come out at 3, 3:15, 3:30, and 3:45. I will use the designation Q1, Q2 and so on.
  3. Most people tag their original answer as A1, A2 and so on. Make sure to add #DigPINS
  4. Look at others posts and see if want to start a mini conversation or join one that has already started. Always reply and do not delete any of the people already involved in the conversation. MAKE SURE TO ADD #DigPINS to these responses as well.
Post a last post using the Weeks 3 & 4 Category. Potential topics include a digital pedagogy idea you’d like to try next semester, how you approach digital scholarship (influenced by your research and field), last thoughts on DigPINS.