Scholarship
Patricia Leavy: Feminist Author Blurs the Arts and Sciences
Patricia Leavy: Feminist Author Blurs the Arts and Sciences:
“Patricia Leavy is a feminist sociology professor and author with a passion for blurring the arts and sciences. With a dozen books to her credit she has become known for advocating innovative and artful approaches to conducting social research as a means of getting at the complexity of lived experience and linking the “inner worlds” of women to the social contexts in which they live.”
The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education: “One scholar’s attempt to edit a wikipedia entry with inaccuracies. “
E-Books’ Varied Formats Make Citations a Mess for Scholars – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
E-Books’ Varied Formats Make Citations a Mess for Scholars – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education: “As e-reading devices gain popularity, professors and students are struggling to adapt them to an academic fundamental: proper citations, which other scholars can use.”
Millennials will make online sharing in networks a lifelong habit | Pew Internet & American Life Project
Overview of responses | Pew Internet & American Life Project:
“In a survey about the future impact of the internet, a solid majority of technology experts and stakeholders said the Millennial generation will lead society into a new world of personal disclosure and information-sharing using new media. These experts said the communications patterns €˜digital natives’ have already embraced through their use of social networking technology and other social technology tools will carry forward even as Millennials age, form families, and move up the economic ladder. “
Open-Access Journals Break Barriers to Academic Freedom – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Open-Access Journals Break Barriers to Academic Freedom – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education: “New Journals, Free Online, Let Scholars Speak Out”
The Man Who Looked Into Facebook’s Soul
The Man Who Looked Into Facebook’s Soul: “”
Lets of ethical issues for researchers to consider.
Memes as Mechanisms: How Digital Subculture Informs the Real World
Open Access Day – October 14, 2008
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture have jointly announced the first international Open Access Day. Building on the worldwide momentum toward Open Access to publicly funded research, Open Access Day will create a key opportunity for the higher education community and the general public to understand more clearly the opportunities of wider access and use of content.
Open Access Day will invite researchers, educators, librarians, students, and the public to participate in live, worldwide broadcasts of events. In North America, events will be held at 7:00 PM (Eastern) and 7:00 PM (Pacific).
Morning Becomes Electric: Post-Modern Scholarly Information Access, Organization, and Navigation
“Scholars are facing unprecedented Information Overload in their attempts to identify potentially relevant information sources. Electronic networks have not only expedited traditional forms of publishing but created new formal and informal opportunities for communication. Conventional methods of information management are reaching the limits of their effectiveness. To enhance access to information in the coming decades, systems that fully utilize the digital nature of a growing number of scholarly resources must be implemented.”