Library Workshop: “Social Academics-Communicating Research and Ideas Online”

Social media spaces offer new ways of communicating research and ideas, and engaging in quick and informal discourse with collaborators as well as broader audiences. The personal investment required to successfully engage in these spaces, however, can compete with attention given to more traditional academic communication. How can one efficiently and effectively use social media? What opportunities does it enable, and what are the potential pitfalls? How do social media interactions influence how we pursue and talk about our academic research? How is social media altering the future of publishing and scholarly communication?

Social Academics: Communicating Research and Ideas Online 

When: October 3rd, 12:00-2:00 PM

Where: 217 Perkins Library

Box lunch provided for participants and organizers

Co-Sponsored by Duke University Libraries & PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge

Attendance limited. Priority will be given to PhD Lab students and affiliated faculty. Register to attend: https://library.duke.edu/events/digital-scholarship/event.do?id=6405&occur=13869

A panel of Duke faculty will discuss the ways they engage in social media spaces like blogs, Twitter, and Facebook, and offer their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of taking one’s research online. Discussion will be framed and moderated by Duke University Libraries’ Director of Digital Information Strategy, Paolo Mangiafico.

Panelists:

This Libraries-based series of workshops and presentations supports the goals of the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at the Franklin Humanities Institute. The PhD Lab provides an arena in which PhD students in humanities and interpretive social sciences can learn about new digital scholarship, engage with its challenges, and see its promise for their own research and professional lives within or outside the university. The PhD Lab seeks to balance the practical and the conceptual by allowing participants to prototype projects and receive peer feedback to enrich their understanding of the potential of digital scholarship. Duke University Libraries contributes to this work through programs that provide training in digital scholarship methods, conceptual engagement with the issues and opportunities afforded by new technologies, and opportunities for partnership around digital scholarship projects.

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