social justice & public scholarship in the digital age

Social Justice & Public Scholarship in the Digital Era

Jessie Daniels, PhD Law & Society Association Meetings

May 28, 2014

Twitter: @JessieNYC

#LSAMN14 #publicscholarship

the need for social justice

8.4 times more likely

training scholars like it’s 1983

legacy academic scholarship

pre-21st century, analog, closed, removed from the public sphere, solitary, monastic

“legacy”

This was the only option for publishing.

We typed words & paragraphs on paper.

That technology had some problems.

This was “cut and paste.”

This is where we would go to find & read information.

This is how we looked things up.

Most journals not available to the public.

changing landscape of scholarship

21st century, digitized, open, connected to the public

sphere, collaborative, worldly

“digital scholarship”

changing knowledge production

peer-review is changing

publishing is changing

profits

changing activism

Tahrir Square

changing the scholar-activist

academics-journalists-activists

Summits

hybrid scholars

require hybrid training

MediaCamp Workshops

for Academics, Activists

The POOC: Opening Education

videos open to anyone

readings open to anyone

Knowledge Streams

activismscholarship journalism

Data Maps

Data Visualizations

Produced 4 e-Books