Media: “The Open Researcher” – Profiled in #jiscinform
Several months ago, I was approached by JISC Inform, an online magazine, produced by JISC and used to raise awareness of technology in further and higher education in the UK. Having found me on twitter, they wanted to profile me as an open researcher in a ‘day in the life’ style of what my researcher practice looks like. It was a really enjoyable process that forced me to think about what (and why) I do and I feel quite honoured to be approached in the first place. The final article was recently published in their spring edition as is available in full …
Reflection: Education for the crisis? Notes from #e4c, 29th March
This blog post has been burning in my head since last week, feeling (rightly so) equally troubled, inspired and generally itchy about the whole subject area so excuse me if I get all ramble-y in places, I’m still working this out in my own head. Last week I was invited along (with around 40 others) to be part of a discussion group that was looking at education for the crisis. There were some people there who are good friends, people who I had never met but been following for twitter (in some cases, for years), some who I had came …
Guardian Higher Education Panel: The Impact of New Technologies on Academic Research
Last Friday I broke my holiday up to take part as an invited panelist for a 3 hour Guardian Higher Education Panel about the impact of new technologies on academic research. The structure of Guardian live panels canbe a little clunky as they are situated in the comment thread of an article (think comment is free on crack) but overall, there was an interesting discussion at play. You can read the five pages of comments over here. There are several points that I took away from the discussion and I wish to note when we are discussing ‘new’ technology in …
Archiving Social Media Contexts: Article published in FUMSI
A few months I was approached by Joanna Ptolomey, the contributing editor for FUMSI USE magazine to contribute a guest article based on a previous blog post I wrote about social media archiving (just after the changes to Twitter’s API service regarding archiving.) The article was published last week (and it was strangely the first thing the corporate marketing department of my University have promoted of mine – I must be mellowing out…) An extract of the article is below – the rest can be rest on the FUMSI website. Introduction It’s always surprised me as a researcher that microblogging platform …
Olympic Media: An Overview (Guest lecture for Ithaca College London)
As part of a series of workshops delivered around the Olympics to visiting students from Ithaca Collage in the states, I was invited to speak about Olympic media and give an overview of its history and its challenges. The session was roughly two hours long and covered media contexts, history of Olympic media, media technology and the games and some of the research case studies that I’ve been working on around Vancouver 2010 and London 2012. The prezi from the workshop is below: Olympic Media:: An Overview on Prezi