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This document discusses new digital research literacies for legal educators. It outlines scholarly peer networks like SSRN and ResearchGate that can help build an academic profile. Publishing platforms like blogs, slideshares, and Twitter are discussed as ways to disseminate research. The document also discusses altmetrics as an alternative to traditional metrics like citation counting and journal impact factors. It provides examples of how digital research can transform features like replicability, mutability, and connectivity. Finally, it encourages legal educators to engage with emerging technologies to collaborate openly and consider diverse voices.
Lern, jan 2015, digital media slides
- 1. New media & digital research literacies for legal educators Professor Paul Maharg paulmaharg.com/slides
- 2. preview 1. Digital research literacies 2. Scholarly peer networks: SSRN, Academia, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, CarbonMade 3. Publishing platforms: blogs, Slideshare, Twitter, Buzzfeed 4. Bibliometrics > altmetrics 5. Some research… 6. Some personal conclusions
- 3. digital media Pro Con Wide dissemination, remains at a more or less fixed place for readers to return & download, etc Can be time-consuming & addictive; are you getting to the people you want to read your stuff? Gathering, sorting, archiving of digital information very useful Apps disappear or go corporate Builds academic profile through altmetrics Can encourage narcissism & grandiosity if used as vanity projects Facilitates the Open – open access, open education, OE resources Privacy can be an issue (cf Facebook) Supports knowledge as a public good Do we want that? Should knowledge always be public? 1
- 4. deeper issues 1. What’s digital? Specific devices, networks, assemblages? Technical, educational, research affordances, modes of text and search, specific skills, competences, practices, environments? 2. How does digital alter social? Eg distributed communities, socio-material understandings, means of production & modes of use 3. How does digital (+ social) alter literacies? Eg artefacts and practices, formal and informal contexts of research, visual artefacts, digital curation. 4. How does digital encourage metricization of our working lives, and what can we do about it? 1
- 5. transforming features of digital… • Replicability • Mutability • Connectivity • Instantaneity (& the ‘nearly now’) • Portability • Identity (Jones 2013, 162-65) 1
- 6. so what about our staff pages? • Almost no social sharing • Static pages • No reference to academic tools or modes of communication • Social media-free • Occasionally useful for linking to repositories to view ‘versions of record’. Or email addresses… 1
- 7. scholarly peer networks • SSRN • Google Scholar: http://bit.ly/1umHCmP • Academia: bit.ly/1oaK9hj • ResearchGate: http://bit.ly/10k3dyE • LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/1DSQvnn • Carbonmade: http://bit.ly/1GfMZY4 • Zotero • Evernote 2
- 8. publishing platforms: blogging http://paulmaharg.com 17.3.2005 > present. Used for: • Dissemination of ideas & research • Construction yard for sections of papers & articles • Sky-writing (Steven Harnard) • Identity formation • On Blawg 3
- 10. publishing platforms: slidedecks & Twitter http://slideshare.net/paulmaharg Used for: •Dissemination of slidedecks •Set alerts for others’ presentations •Re Twitter, use third-party apps & aggregators, eg TweetDeck to manage the dataflow 3
- 11. 3 publishing platforms: slidedecks & Twitter
- 12. 3 publishing platforms: slidedecks & Twitter
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- 15. publishing platforms: Buzzfeed (surely not Buzzfeed?) 3
- 17. altmetrics See altmetrics.org: ‘the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing and informing scholarship’ 4
- 18. existing impact: how we are judged Existing filters: • Peer-review • Citation counting eg h-index • Journal Impact Factor (JIF) 4
- 19. existing impact: how we are judged • … of a journal: A measure of the average number of citations to articles published in science & social science journals in a 3- year period (Eugene Garfield, ISI). Calculated annually for the journals indexed in Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports. • Calculation: number of times articles were cited in indexed journals divided by number of items published in journals. • Pressure on authors to enter high-ranked journals • Pressure on journals to stay high-ranked 4
- 20. existing impact: how we are judged… BUT… •JIF is easily gamed: http://bit.ly/1uYDPgE •And gives inaccurate views of journal quality: http://bit.ly/1Ddo8Be 4
- 21. … hence altmetrics ‘With altmetrics, we can crowdsource peer-review. Instead of waiting months for two opinions, an article’s impact might be assessed by thousands of conversations and bookmarks in a week. In the short term, this is likely to supplement traditional peer- review, perhaps augmenting rapid review in journals like PLoS ONE, BMC Research Notes or BMJ Open. In the future, greater participation and better systems for identifying expert contributors may allow peer review to be performed entirely from altmetrics. Unlike the JIF, altmetrics reflect the impact of the article itself, not its venue. Unlike citation metrics, altmetrics will track impact outside the academy, impact of influential but uncited work, and impact from sources that aren’t peer-reviewed. Some have suggested altmetrics would be too easy to game; we argue the opposite.’ altmetrics: a manifesto -- http://bit.ly/1tldeJA 4
- 22. what might altmetrics look like? 5 Altmetrics: a manifesto – http://bit.ly/1tldeJA
- 23. …which is also a related to the Open movement, in data & scholarship Eg •Datacite •DASH (Harvard) •Caselaw •Ravel Law Further reading: http://bit.ly/1LgPtbo
- 24. So why digital research literacy? For all these reasons & more… • Quantify and document research impact • Justify future requests for funding • Quantify return on research investment • Discover how research findings are being used • Identify similar research projects • Identify possible collaborators • Determine if research findings are duplicated, confirmed, corrected, improved or repudiated • Determine if research findings were extended • Confirm that research findings were properly attributed/credited • Demonstrate that research findings are resulting in meaningful health outcomes • Discover community benefit as a result of research findings • Progress reports • Promotion dossiers Adapted from the Becker Model, @ https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment/model 5
- 25. results from analytical literature? • ‘Social network analysis revealed that discipline was influential in defining community structure, while academic seniority was linked to the position of nodes within the network.’ • ‘The survey revealed a contradiction between academics use of the sites and their position within the networks the sites foster. Junior academics were found to be more active users of the sites, agreeing to a greater extent with the perceived benefits, yet having fewer connections and occupying a more peripheral position in the network.’ Jordan (2014) 5
- 26. • ‘Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy project on peer- reviewed publications between 1980 and 2006, we show that women are systematically cited less than men after controlling for a large number of variables including year of publication, venue of publication, substantive focus, theoretical perspective, methodology, tenure status, and institutional affiliation.’ • ‘Articles authored by women are systematically less central than articles authored by men, all else equal. This is likely because (1) women tend to cite themselves less than men, and (2) men (who make up a disproportionate share of IR scholars) tend to cite men more than women. This is the first study in political science to reveal significant gender differences in citation patterns and is especially meaningful because citation counts are increasingly used as a key measure of research's quality and impact.’ Maliniak et al 2013 results from analytical literature? 5
- 27. what can legal education researchers do? • Acknowledge the ceaseless emergence of technology, and engage with it as widely as our time & energy allows • Base our practices on community and collaboration • Be open to diverse, global voices • Be Open in teaching and research 6
- 28. references BIALL Legal Information Literacy Statement, http://www.biall.org.uk/data/files/BIALL_Legal_Information_Literacy_Statement_July_2012.pdf Cheston, C.C., Flickinger, T.E., Chisholm, M.S. (2013). Social media use in medical education: A systematic review, Academic Medicine. 88, 6, 893-901. Holmes, K. (2014). Going beyond bibliometric and altmetric counts to understand impact. http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/2014-05/going-beyond-bibliometric-and-altmetric-counts-understand- impact#sthash.4stanFFN.dpuf Jones, C. (2013). The digital university: a concept in need of definition. In R. Goodfellow, M.R.Lea, eds, Literacy in the Digital University. Critical Perspectives on Learning, Scholarship and Technology. SRHE, Routledge, London, 162-172. Jordan, K. (2014). Academics and their online networks: Exploring the role of academic social networking sites. Available at: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4937/4159 Konkiel, S. (2014) Playing with altmetrics. http://theresearchwhisperer.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/altmetrics-services/#more- 3175 Maliniak, D., Powers, R., Walter, B.F. (2013). The gender citation gap in International Relations. International Organization, 67, 4, 889-922. http://bit.ly/1yYFxym SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy (2011). The Core Model.http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/coremodel.pdf Veletsianos, G. (2013). Open practices and identity: Evidence from researchers and educators’ social media participation. British Journal of Education Technology, 44, 4, 639-51.