making and sharing content online
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The Researcher Online:
Making and Sharing Content
Online
Dr Helen WebsterDigital Humanities Network
University of Cambridge
Before we start...I’d like to model the digital behaviour I’m advocating!
•Feel free to livetweet #RONetwork
•Slides are online: Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/drhelenwebster/
•We’re recording the talk to create a digital artefact. We’ll be focussing on the presentation rather than discussions.
Getting StartedThis isn’t a software training session, but there is...
•... a website listing tools mentioned today and instructions http://researcheronline.wordpress.com/
•... a hands-on follow-up session on 20th February to help you get started
AimsNot to teach tools, but...
•an awareness of the ways in which social and digital media platforms can enhance and be embedded in your work as a researcher
•an understanding of the issues raised by social and digital media tools, potential pitfalls, good practice and future impacts on the profession
•an awareness of and ability to evaluate the various types of digital tool and make informed decisions about your own engagement with them in your practice
How much of what you do is shared?
•List the outputs of your work which are ever seen by others
•Who is that audience and how much impact does your sharing have?
•What are the barriers to wider impact of your work?
Thinking Digitally
•Digital
•Networked
•Open (Weller, 2012)
Traditional vs Digital models
Traditional
•Resource intensive
•Filtered
•Short-tail
•Participation limited
•Closed
Digital
•Cheap
•Unfiltered
•Long-tail
•Participation accessible
•Open
What do you produce in the course of your
work?
What to share?•What digital ‘offcuts’ do you habitually
create in the course of your work?
•What aspects of your work might you capture easily in digital format?
•What aspects of your work might be easily adapted as digital artefacts?
•What might you create specifically as a digital artefact?
Why share?
•Your own professional aims
•The Impact Agenda
•The Open Access agenda
•‘Cognitive Surplus’ (Shirky)
Potential audiences
•Colleagues and peers
•Students
•Educators
•Outreach
•Public engagement
•Knowledge exchange
•Enterprise
The basics
You need to...
1.record a digital file (a device)
2.edit the digital file (software or an app)
3.upload it to the web (a server or a cloud-based platform)
Recording
•Your computer, smartphone or tablet
•A plug-in device: webcam or microphone
•Specialist kit - a digital camera, video camera, audio recorder
Editing
•Proprietary software already be on your computer
•Purchased proprietary software (you may have access to university licensed software)
•Free, open source software
•‘Fremium’ software
Hosting
•Your own web space
•Your university’s web space (including a VLE)
•Cloud-based platforms
Sharing digital offcuts
•Documents: Scribd
•Slides: Slideshare
• Images: Flickr
•Various formats as PDFs: Academia.edu
•Bibliographies: Mendeley
•Research data and outputs: DSpace@Cambridge
Does sharing work?
How much do you need to adapt materials before they will make sense to a primary (often specific, face-to-face) audience and a secondary online (often unpredictable) audience?
Livestreaming
A webcam/microphone plus
•Ustream
•Livestream
•Justin TV
•Google hangouts
ImagesCreating and editing:
•iPhoto
•Photoshop
•some editing possible on hosting platform
Hosting:
•Flickr
AudioCreating and editing:
• Audacity
• (Mac users) Garageband
Hosting:
• Soundcloud
• Audioboo (also includes recording)
• Youtube (with an image or slideshow)
• iTunes (combined with RSS as a podcast)
VideoCreating:
• any device that records and creates video files
Editing
• Windows MovieMaker, iMovie
Hosting (and some recording and editing):
• Youtube
• Vimeo
Slide- or Screencast
Creating and editing:
• Jing
•Recording feature on Powerpoint
Hosting:
•Slideshare
•Youtube
•Screencast.com
Copyright and Copyleft
•Copyright: all rights reserved
•Creative Commons: some rights reserved
•Ethics
Principles
•Where you can, share (and share rights)
•Design for a small scale targeted group, but open to scalability and serendipity
•Lo-fi is good enough, and may be better
•Change your practice - frictionless ‘collateral damage’, not just projects
•Make sure you are permitted to share material!
Distribution and publicity strategy•How will your audience find your
outputs?
•How will you package your outputs and alert people?
•How will you manage the frequency and lifespan of your outputs?
•How will you assess and manage response to your outputs?
SerendipityHow will people find your outputs?
•Searchability and metadata
•Social network amplification
(How) will they subscribe to future outputs?
Subscribability•Keep profiles updated on various
channels
•Set up a Wordpress.com blog and link to or embed media in it
•Copy the html code from the hosting platform
•Paste into the html editor of your wordpress blog post
What could possibly go
wrong?!
Taking it further
•DSpace@Cambridge
•Cambridge University Streaming Media Service
•Cambridge University iTunesU
•Rising Stars Programme
•Cambridge Outreach team / Admissions
•Cambridge Public Engagement team
Researcher Online
http://researcheronline.wordpress.com/
Hands-on session: Wednesday 20th, 12-2pm
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