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Digital media and the Internet are transforming how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. A newly-created Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the University of California-Irvine will provide an international center to nurture exploration of and build evidence around the impact of digital media on young people's learning and its potential for transforming education. Funded through a $2.97 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Center was announced today at a national forum at Google headquarters that brought together leading thinkers around the challenge of reasserting American global leadership in education.

The aims of this study are to answer the following questions: * are social media impacting upon researcher workflows? * if so, how should publishers and librarians respond? * how influential are age and other factors in shaping the demand for social media?

"Digital Media and Learning Competition 4: Badges for Lifelong Learning" supported by the MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with Mozilla and HASTAC, simultaneously in person and online 9/15/11

From the Aspen Ideas Festival, a panel discussion on how to use digital media to lower barriers to education, identifying the types of teaching processes that lend themselves best to such media and other opportunities at the crossroad of technologies and

A research paper considers new scientists' publishing and presentation activities using blogs, websites, and social media in the context of the scientific publishing enterprise.

"The term "altmetrics" is short for "alternative metrics." These are a range of nontraditional metrics that can be used to assess the impact that scholars have on research in their areas of study. They can include the number of article downloads, citation of research in online news/social media sources, Mendeley bookmarks (a web-based system for sharing and extracting information from PDFs and other electronic documents), and nontraditional forms of scholarship. "

Digital Media and Learning Conference, March 1-3, 2012, San Francisco, sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, theme "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World"

Abstract: "By analyzing six different event-centric datasets of resources shared in social media in the period from June 2009 to March 2012, we found about 11% lost and 20% archived after just a year and an average of 27% lost and 41% archived after two and a half years. Furthermore, we found a nearly linear relationship between time of sharing of the resource and the percentage lost, with a slightly less linear relationship between time of sharing and archiving coverage of the resource. From this model we conclude that after the first year of publishing, nearly 11% of shared resources will be lost and after that we will continue to lose 0.02% per day." Wonder how this compares with some of the "linkrot" or disappearing web resource links studies in the '00s?

Now some humanities scholars have begun to challenge the monopoly that peer review has on admission to career-making journals and, as a consequence, to the charmed circle of tenured academe. They argue that in an era of digital media there is a better way to assess the quality of work.

(Note: See the .pdf attached to this media release for the various models suggested for analyzing impact) It is often stated that the most difficult task in any research project is not the achievement of results, but the accurate analysis of the benefits that those outcomes reap. The Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Programme has been a leading light in the discovery and industry-focused application of new technologies and techniques. Now, with the release of a landmark guidebook by the CRC Association, scientists are armed with tools to greatly improve their ability to accurately assess the benefit to the economy of their outputs.

This paper reports results from a large recent study of the public domain in the European Union. Based on a combination of catalogue and survey data our figures for the number of items (and works) in the public domain extend across a variety of media and provide one of the first quantitative estimates of the 'size' of the public domain in any jurisdiction.

description of sm tools for discovery and evaluatio in pharma

"influence ranking framework" for online resources

SM potential for improving collaboration w/in firms

Collaboration between The New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (via @oatp) offers technology predictions for one to five years

Call for OA journal innovation in Canada, particularly inclusion of multiple media formats

Global Reset Series / by John Wilbanks / January 28, 2011The scientific paper has long been the unit of scientific knowledge. Now, with print media lapsing into obsolescence, the internet is poised to transform science publishing and science itself.

Fifth Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing and E-Publications, June 30-July 1, 2011