Week Nine - T Junee Presentation-2

Digital Research and Publishing(ARIN6912)

Masters of Publishing

University of Sydney, Australia

Presentation by: Tiffanny Junee

Copyright 2010

Historical context of scientific publishing & economics: printing press to digital age & the Open Access Movement.

New ways of disseminating scientific data and results: from social software to social knowledge

New waves of knowledge to come: downloadable beliefs & the knowledge economy

Innovative possibilities for arrangement of data and information: cutting the trees of knowledge

Epistemologies not quite associated with the printing press: future of classification (folksonomy, blogs, tags metadata)

Cutting the trees of knowledge: Social Software, Information Architecture and their epistemic consequences

- Michael Schlitz, Frederick Truyen and Hans Coppens (2007)

If production of knowledge is always a social process, what are the implications of social media?

How has social media changed the production of knowledge?

Private

How has social media changed the production of knowledge?

Groups

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General References:• Social Software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software) and • Wiki’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki) [accessed 21 September, 2010]