Create (module IV)a module for students in LIBR559M

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | LIBR559M February 2013

‘Nine Muses’ provide writers, painters & philosophers with theinspiration to create

Image: http://www.9museschicago.com/about

Module IV Learning Goals

• To explore “create”, “creation” & “creativity” in social media

• How do we encourage engagement in archives & libraries?

• Can archives & libraries be inspirational? creative “maker” spaces?

• What media literacies do we need? – Transmedia “remix” “trans”literacies…

• Theoretical-sensitivity; Bloom, Lave-Wenger– Digital taxonomy of learning– Digital communities of practice– Other epistemologies

• Nonaka’s concept of ‘ba’ in knowledge creation

Inactives: sign up, do nothingSpectators: watch, lurk and read (only)

Joiners: join groups but usually “read only”Collectors: curate, collect, organize for others

Critics: respond to content created by others, criticize!Creators …. create media for the world to see

Six (6) stages of social media engagement

Source: http://www.webgeekly.com/lessons/social-media/the-6-different-types-of-social-media-users-which-one-are-you/

Archives & libraries as platforms…

LIBR559M blogger:

“…Every Tuesday night after leaving my 559M social media class …I transit home with the same frustrated taste in my mouth. Social media – collaboration – super cool! …but how in the hell can we get libraries to use these tools in creative, meaningful ways?”

Libraries as “makerspaces” The Mix at San Fran Public Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMgrxKAFzxMCase study of one teen @ The Mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WafzVcQ4Opg

http://themixatsfpl.org/

• Create an outline of your final paper. Blog & tweet• Create outline of a research project. Post it on your blog, use SlideShare. • Create knowledge object, share it with your peers • Create a tutorial using screencasting software• Create a social media strategy; how will you sell it to library admin? • Create a simple one-page social software policy for archive/library • Create video and post it to YouTube (or your blog)• Create something new using new tool

Create something…you never know where it will take you

LIBR559M student http://storify.com/jjackunrau

https://twitter.com/ehansen02/status/704716134281551872/photo/1

We mediate …“we are the media”• Contrast with top-down model of official or professional media

• Berners-Lee’s web creates awareness & inspiration for librarians/archivists

• Content creation driven by web users, ‘the people’, your library

• The web as originally envisioned seems to be returning to its original purpose:

“...the idea was NOT that the web should be a big browsing medium...but that everyone would put their ideas in, as well as taking them out.” Tim Berners-Lee (1999) address to MIT Laboratory

The ‘free’ knowledge-based economy

• Creative commons (online legal ”system”)• Lessig’s Remix economy, copyleft, knowledge-based economy • Web as digital paradise, technotopia or infotopia• Openness - access, data, source, search, education • Innovative delivery of information services

Lessig on remix:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFdcPc-4Ris

“Digital habitats” & communities of practice

" ...groups of people who come together to share and learn - either face-to-face or virtually - are held together by a

common interest in a body of knowledge and driven by a desire and need to share problems, experiences, insights, templates, tools, and best practices.” – Lave & Wenger

“…Technology has changed what it means for communities to "be together." Digital tools are now part

of most communities' habitats. [This] involves a set of ideas, tools, information, language and stories community

members share. For this to occur, each member is responsible for sharing news, ideas, tools, etc. a community of practice is a body of shared knowledge and resources …[which] enable communities to deal with the information it generates to complete its work…” Wenger, White, Smith

(2010)

http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Etienne_Wenger

David Lankes on new librarianshiphttp://quartz.syr.edu/blog/

http://quartz.syr.edu/blog/?page_id=7071

Knowledge broker, translation, management

“…knowledge creation is a synthesis of disparate elements organized into a meaningful whole. Implicit in this activity is

analysis of components & evaluation of outcomes…”

Knowledge “translator” Knowledge

“broker”

http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Knowledge_management

“Concept of Ba” & knowledge managementNonaka introduces the Japanese concept of "Ba" to organizational theory. Ba (equivalent to "place" in English) is a shared space for emerging relationships..& can be physical, virtual or a mental space. Knowledge, in contrast to information,

cannot be separated from the context as it is embedded in ba. To support the process of knowledge creation, a foundation in ba is required. Nonaka develops

and explains four contexts and how they facilitate knowledge creation.

The Concept of 'Ba': Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation Nonaka, Ikujiro , and Noboru Konno 40/3 (Spring 1998): 40-54

Choo et al. Beyond the ba: managing enabling contexts in knowledge organizations. J Knowledge Manage. 2011

• Social media alone is not enough to encourage engagement• Tools are supplementary to “create” narratives• Advocates (user communities) come together without social media• Blogging is an effective entry point for creative activities in

LIBR559M• …as are e-portfolios and other personalized websites

My observations re: 2005-2016

In an age of social media …• Archivists & librarians can be more than curators• Knowledge-creators, translators & brokers• We are “catalysts for knowledge creation”• Use & test applications where possible• Social engagement online adds richness to our work• We inspire, recognize & reward creative activities in archives/libraries