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Chris Long

Community and Communication | Kris Klotz - 1 views

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  • Dewey’s task, then, was to articulate the means by which the public can discover and identify itself, “so that genuinely shared interest in the consequences of interdependent activities may inform desire and effort and thereby direct action.”
  • Communication of the results of social inquiry is the same thing as the formation of public opinion.
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      Here I wonder if we can link to Habermas and the movement from Leserwelt to public.
  • freedom from government-sanctioned doctrinal constraints; and freedom to pursue the truth wherever it might lead in making a contribution to the world of learning.
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      Refer to this in my section on Kant as not giving up his private rights in writing on the enlightenment.
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  • While Dewey agrees with Lippmann
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      I'd like to hear more about the Lippmann argument here. Just a few sentences.
  • In this case, philosophers must be considered not as faculty members but as fellow citizens
  • If so, how does a philosophical community balance the opportunities for communication made possible by growing interest in the digital humanities with the need for active local communities?
Mark Fisher

Brokering Community-University Engagement - Springer - 1 views

  • Abstract Although substantial areas of agreement exist regarding the characteristics of effective community–university partnerships for research, there is little empirical research on the relationship between the characteristics of such partnerships and their outcomes. In this study, we explored the relationship between partnership characteristics and partnership outcomes. Analyses of the relationships between partnership dynamics and perceived benefits show that (1) effective partnership management is associated with increased research on a community issue, problem, or need; (2) co-creation of knowledge is associated with improved service outcomes for clients; and (3) shared power and resources are negatively associated with increased funding for community partners’ organizations. Our findings suggest that effective partnership management and opportunities for the co-creation of knowledge are practices that are worthy of deliberate cultivation within community–university partnerships for research.
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André de Avillez

On "community" and "academic" | poke salad - 0 views

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    Blog post on the potential difficulties of reconciling an academic identity with the concept of community
André de Avillez

Chapter 2. Communication-specific guidelines - 0 views

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    Good resource for policies on community communication
Mark Fisher

Mission, Values, and Principles | Student Affairs - 1 views

  • Staff Values People and Community: We value and respect each person, both as an individual and as an integral part of this and other communities. Excellence and Responsibility: We hold ourselves to high standards of quality, responsibility, and accountability in our work. Collaboration: As an ensemble, we value mutuality, group process, shared decision-making and open communication. Diversity: We believe in the importance and complexity of honoring and learning from diversity. Honesty and Integrity: We aim to be straightforward and sincere in our communications and interactions with others. Learning: We hope to nurture individual and organizational growth that is rooted in experience, intentional reflection and multiple ways of knowing. Commitment to a Shared Vision: We derive continual inspiration from our mission and sense of common purpose. Celebration: We take time to acknowledge and appreciate one another and our accomplishments. Creativity: The dynamic context of our work requires a commitment to thoughtful exploration and a willingness to take risks. Advancement of Social Equity: Social justice and civic values are core values for each of us, as well as at the heart of our mission as a center.
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    Values informing Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford
Mark Fisher

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1302/1302.5177.pdf - 5 views

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    Online Deliberation Design: Choices, Criteria, and Evidence
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    I found the diagram (five design categories) on page 3 helpful.
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    Here is something to consider: Other things being equal, however, the available research supports the idea that people both prefer and are more productive when they are speaking rather than writing, probably because speech is less cognitively demanding than writing,70 but that people who are high in literacy prefer and absorb more information per unit time when they are reading text rather than listening to speech.71 This suggests a role for the developing technology of automatic speech recognition (ASR). If software can efficiently translate spoken words into text, then the users of an online system may be able to interact more optimally.
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    And: One formulation of media richness theory is the following: When equivocality is high, individuals are likely to have different interpretations of problems and may disagree as to what information is needed to shape a solution. These conditions require that individuals must first create a shared sense of the situation and then, through negotiation and feedback, formulate a common response. Daft and his colleagues argue that this requires a rich communication medium, one that, in our terminology, provides interactivity and expressiveness. A medium that provides interactivity permits communication partners to exchange information rapidly, adjusting their messages in response to signals of understanding or misunderstanding, questions, or interruptions [citation omitted]. A medium that permits expressiveness allows individuals to convey not only the content of their ideas but also intensity and subtleties of meaning through intonation, facial expression, or gestures. According to the contingency hypothesis, when task equivocality is high, media richness is essential to effective communication. 74 Media richness theorists distinguish between "rich" and "lean" media, but this is usefully refined into the interactivity and expressiveness dimensions defined above.
Mark Fisher

Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education - Missouri State University - 2 views

  • While there is variation in current terminology (public scholarship, scholarship of engagement, community-engaged scholarship), engaged scholarship is defined by the collaboration between academics and individuals outside the academy - knowledge professionals and the lay public (local, regional/state, national, global) - for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.                                                                                                                                            (NERCHE, n.d.)
  • The Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education aims to advance the status and prospects for publicly engaged teaching and research in the academy by showcasing the new disciplinary and/or pedagogical knowledge generated by engagement with the community.
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    Another articulation of Public Scholarship Journal to look at List of potential allies of PPJ in Editorial Board
Mark Fisher

Public Scholarship | Simpson Center for the Humanities - 2 views

  • Its ethics and values hold central:
  • Relationship-building, reciprocity, and mutual benefit Participation, transparency, and reflection Innovation, integration, and dialogue Cultural diversity and social equality In coming to these forms of “applied” scholarship, humanities scholars have emphasized the way that culture in its many forms mediates interactions, development, and knowledge.
  • Publicly-engaged scholarship yields diverse artifacts, informing knowledge in multiple domains Policy and planning recommendations Museum exhibitions and public performances New curricula for courses or workshops Books and journal articles As consequence, public scholarship also yields new connections among disciplines, communities, and sectors. 
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  • Public scholarship refers to diverse modes of creating and circulating knowledge for and with publics and communities. It often involves mutually-beneficial partnerships between higher education and organizations in the public and private sectors.
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    This provides a nice overview of public scholarship; Guiding Principles Diverse Artifacts (Review Objects
Mark Fisher

Public Scholarship | Center for Leadership & Engagement - 2 views

  • By Public Scholarship we mean bringing the best thinking and research to bear on the most critical issues facing society today.  Public Scholarship also entails a commitment to publishing letters, op-eds, and articles in newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs, and other forms of social media to raise awareness about these issues, to stimulate broad discussion, and to explore the role timely scholarship can play in addressing our most challenging problems. Public scholars strive to communicate simply and clearly to a wide audience, and therefore adopt a journalistic style in which sentences are crisp, paragraphs are brief, and jargon is employed sparingly. While public scholars embrace theory and sophisticated research approaches, they particularly seek to translate theory into practice and to use research findings to shed compelling light on the causes and the effects of pressing social issues. Public scholars also recognize that social issues which affect the broadest range of people matter most. Consequently, issues of poverty, hunger, access to education and healthcare, concerns about the rights of immigrants and other marginalized groups, as well as efforts to ensure public safety and promote social well-being are social priorities that deserve unusually extensive coverage. Public Scholarship is a means by which teachers and scholars can promote the public good, and we encourage faculty, staff, and students to find engaging and innovative ways to communicate with a broader public. We, in the Center for Leadership and Engagement, are pleased to support these efforts and to provide outlets on our website for sharing a variety of perspectives.
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    Characterization of public scholarship
André de Avillez

Professors, We Need You! - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Op-ed on the disjunct between academics and their communities
André de Avillez

» Data Curation as Publishing for the Digital Humanities Journal of Digital H... - 0 views

  • the mechanisms of publishing come to stand in for the larger and more complex processes of creating, vetting, and circulating knowledge
  • if we examine the work that humanists are doing—in something like the way that scholars in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) have done for science—by looking at their culture of material practices, then the familiar framework of “publishing” does not serve us well
  • to publish this scholarship requires that we add some new dimensions to our ideas of “publishing.”
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  • I want to suggest that the theory and practice of data curation can augment our notion of “publishing” in a way that will serve the needs of the digital humanities community
  • Data-curation-as-publishing is publishing work that draws directly on the unique skills of librarians and aligns directly with library missions and values in ways that other kinds of publishing endeavors may not.
  • Treating data curation and publishing as kindred services may offer the prospect of expanding a library’s stable of “innovative” offerings while not straining resources because there are management efficiencies in having both the “front end” and “back end” people in the library. However, in this model, neither libraries nor publishing seems truly transformed and this is a problematic mismatch when so many other aspects of scholarly work are being transformed.
  • In referring to “data curation,” I am speaking specifically of information work that integrates closely with the disciplinary practices and needs of researchers in order to “maintain digital information that is produced in the course of research in a manner that preserves its meaning and usefulness as a potential input for further research.”
  • Kathleen Fitzpatrick has argued that humanists “might … find our values shifting away from a sole focus on the production of unique, original new arguments and texts to consider instead curation as a valid form of scholarly activity” (Fitzpatrick 79)
  • It is also increasingly common to see the release of open data sets as enticement to attract digital humanists to work on particular sets of questions,
  • Publishers add value to end products through peer review and high quality production and presentation. Libraries standardize and preserve these outputs and continue to make them available to a community over time. Organizations which comprise both library and publisher can imagine this as a unified suite of services that cover the entire data lifecycle.
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    Article on JDH on data curation, by Trecor Muñoz. Focused on data-curation by libraries, but I thought it might be interesting given the curation side of the PPJ
André de Avillez

Not the Answer - An Academic Carefully Assesses the Arguments for Open Access | The Sch... - 1 views

  • One of the forms of open access . . . consists in the creation and use of repositories for research writing: databases, typically run by university libraries, into which ‘pre-prints’ (basically, manuscripts) of journal articles may be uploaded for free download by anyone with access to the internet. This has recently become known as ‘green’ open access
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      definition of "Green OA"
  • gold’ open access, which keeps journals open by moving the burden of payment from the reader to the writer
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  • t represents a further drain on university budgets (since repositories are not free to run)
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      definition of "Gold OA"
  • OA advocates tend to conflate problems (e.g., library access with subscription prices with domain expertise with taxpayer status), which makes each problem harder to solve or address in a practical way
  • Gold OA will likely only work for academics at the richest institutions, creating closed access further upstream
  • Authors are not producing work for publishers, but for other academics;
  • ublishers are in fact paid labor for academics, who are the ultimate consumers
  • Careers in publishing are getting harder, especially in editorial roles, which is leading to fewer young professionals pursuing these paths, bad news for the future of high-quality scientific communication
  • the pay-to-say system was devised in order to permit elite academics to continue publishing in the manner to which they had become accustomed, they will be under no obligation to write in a manner more accessible to an audience of non-specialists, and their publishers will be paid in advance even if no-one ever so much as downloads the articles they turn out.
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    A reply to Daniel Allington's concerns with open access, including a conversation with Allington in the comments section
Kris Klotz

The Digital Humanities - 2 views

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    This is a google doc of blogs and other sites curated through PressForward by DH Now.
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    I also posted this in our Behind the Scenes community page. I'm going to begin working through it manually to find sites that are relevant for us.
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    Great find! I'll start working through it as well. I'll work from the bottom up.
Mark Fisher

The "Nasty Effect:" Online Incivility and Risk Perceptions of Emerging Technologies - A... - 2 views

  • The purpose of this study is to examine how uncivil online interpersonal discussion may contribute to polarization of perceptions about an issue.
  • Uncivil discourse is a growing concern in American rhetoric, and this trend has expanded beyond traditional media to online sources, such as audience comments. Using an experiment given to a sample representative of the U.S. population, we examine the effects online incivility on perceptions toward a particular issue—namely, an emerging technology, nanotechnology. We found that exposure to uncivil blog comments can polarize risk perceptions of nanotechnology along the lines of religiosity and issue support.
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    Skim for Wed. 1/22--pdf accessible from site.
Mark Fisher

Reports and References - Public Scholarship Committee, - 1 views

  • Defining Public Scholarship Any definition of public scholarship must balance both the Universitys obligation to establish and maintain reciprocal relations with communities, service providing agencies, industries, and civic organizations in Minnesota and the world with the Universitys core commitments to academic freedom and basic research and cutting-edge scholarship and creation.
  • Defining Public Scholarship. At the level of the institution, public scholarship means optimizing the extent to which University research informs and is informed by the public good, maximizes the generation and transfer of knowledge and technology, educates the public about what research the University does, and listens to the public about what research needs to be done. This scholarship contributes to the intellectual and social capital of the University and the State (and larger regions), and includes (but is not limited to) the transfer of knowledge and technology that contributes to improved quality of life for significant portions of the populous.
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    Defining Public Scholarship
André de Avillez

Why Liberal Academics and Ivory Tower Radicals Make Poor Revolutionaries - Youngist - 1 views

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    "Try reading any academic text from your local women's studies, ethnic studies, post-colonial studies, or anthropology department. The texts are almost always written so that only academics can understand. Some students and scholars call it "acadamese." It is writing that needs to be decoded before it can be understood. This is what inaccessible language looks like in academic texts written about oppressed groups, but not for them."
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    This strikes me as the kind of article we ought to invite for commenting, review, and publication. If this could be improved without devolving into "academese" (as she calls it), it would be a great article.
Kris Klotz

The New Public Intellectuals | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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    Reply to Kristof
Kris Klotz

Systems: An open, two-stage peer-review journal - 3 views

  • In the first stage, manuscripts that pass a rapid pre-screening (access review) are immediately published as 'discussion papers' on the journal's website. They are then subject to interactive public discussion for a period of 8 weeks, during which the comments of designated reviewers, additional comments by other interested members of the scientific community, and the authors' replies are published alongside the discussion paper. Reviewers can choose to sign their comments or remain anonymous, but comments by other scientists must be signed.
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    Brief article in Nature on open peer review process of two science journals
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    Very interesting hypothesis: "These numbers support the idea that public peer review and interactive discussion deter authors from submitting low-quality manuscripts, and thus relieve editors and reviewers from spending too much time on deficient submissions."
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    I noticed Chris tweeted that comment earlier. It's a good complement to the more common finding of confirmation bias.
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