Vitae’s Digital Researcher 2011 #dr11
Tomorrow I will be attending the Vitae Digital Researcher 2011 event (follow virtually on twitter: #dr11) at the British Library. The event is designed to introduce a range of web 2.0 technologies and to encourage researchers to ‘think digitally’ about their research. I blogged my thoughts about my reasons for attending for the Vitae blog a few weeks ago, focussing specifically on how I can improve my own social media workshops that I have given to the PhD community at UWS. Therefore, a couple of focal points that I would like to think about during tomorrow: Although some of the …
#PhDChat – thoughts on twitter methodologies (& an experiment in open, collaborative paper writing.)
This post carries over from Martin Eve’s and Andy Coverdale’s initial posts about the process of writing a joint paper about the phenomena of #phdchat; a weekly twitter chat for PhD students, which has been appearing since around October 2010. Both Martin and Andy have covered the overview of the chat, describing and asking questions about the use of the digital artefact (in this case, Twitter) in this context. It is implied (through participate observation) that the chat itself is a method in which to engage PhD students using social media often in an attempt to promote inclusion within a …