scholarly journals Intersections Between Social Knowledge Creation and Critical Making

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Arbuckle ◽  
Alex Christie ◽  
ETCL Research Group ◽  
INKE Research Group ◽  
MVP Research Group
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Communication Practice ◽  
Research Production ◽  
Critical Making ◽  
Scholarly Production

This article outlines the practices of digital scholarly communication (moving research production and dissemination online), critical making (producing theoretical insights by transforming digitized heritage materials), and social knowledge creation (collaborating in online environments to produce shared knowledge products). In addition to exploring these practices and their principles, this article argues for a combination of these activities in order to engender knowledge production chains that connect multiple institutions and communities. Highlighting the relevance of critical making theory for scholarly communication practice, this article provides examples of theoretical research that offer tangible products for expanding and enriching scholarly production.

scholarly journals Implementing a Social Knowledge Creation Environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Hiebert ◽  
William R. Bowen ◽  
Raymond Siemens
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Scholarly Production ◽  
The University ◽  
Critical Intervention

“Social knowledge creation,” an emergent area of research interest for digital humanists, promotes experimental critical interventions into more traditional knowledge production processes. The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria with Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (University of Toronto Scarborough) have iteratively prototyped a Web-based platform for social knowledge creation called Iter Community. This article discusses the platform’s implementation as a critical intervention in scholarly production and publication, specifically how it provides new opportunities for research and serves as a model to allow for greater involvement of scholars and the public in knowledge creation.

scholarly journals Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Trotter ◽  
Catherine Kell ◽  
Michelle Willmers ◽  
Eve Gray ◽  
Thomas K.C. King
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Impact Factor ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Research Production ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Scholarly Production ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Administrative Innovations

African scholarly research is relatively invisible globally because even though research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is falling in comparative terms. In addition, traditional metrics of visibility, such as the Impact Factor, fail to make legible all African scholarly production. Many African universities also do not take a strategic approach to scholarly communication to broaden the reach of their scholars'work. To address this challenge, the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was established to help raise the visibility of African scholarship by mapping current research and communication practices in Southern African universities and by recommending and piloting technical and administrative innovations based on open access dissemination principles. To do this, SCAP conducted extensive research in four faculties at the Universities of Botswana, Cape Town, Mauritius and Namibia.

scholarly journals Foundations for On-Campus Open Social Scholarship Activities

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Randa El Khatib ◽  
Alyssa Arbuckle ◽  
Ray Siemens
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The University

Social knowledge creation, citizen scholarship, interdisciplinary collaborations, and university-community partnerships have become more common and more visible in contemporary academia. The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) currently focuses on how to engage with such transformations in knowledge creation. In this paper we survey the intellectual foundation of social knowledge creation and major initiatives undertaken to pursue and enact this research in the ETCL. “Social Knowledge Creation: Three Annotated Bibliographies” (Arbuckle, Belojevic, Hiebert, Siemens, et al. 2014), and an updated iteration, “An Annotated Bibliography on Social Knowledge Creation,” (Arbuckle, El Hajj, El Khatib, Seatter, Siemens, et al, 2017), explore how academics collaborate to create knowledge, and how social knowledge creation can bridge the real or perceived gap between the academy and the public. This knowledgebase lays the foundation for the “Open Social Scholarship Annotated Bibliography” (El Hajj, El Khatib, Leibel, Seatter, et al. 2019), which draws on research that adopts and propagates social knowledge creation ideals and explores trends such as accessible research development and dissemination. Using these annotated bibliographies as a theoretical foundation for action, the ETCL began test-driving open social scholarship initiatives with the launch of the Open Knowledge Practicum (OKP). The OKP invites members of the community and the university to pursue their own research in the ETCL. Research output is published in open, public venues. Overall, we aim to acknowledge the expanding, social nature of knowledge production, and to detail how the ETCL utilizes in-person interaction and the digital medium to facilitate open social scholarship.

scholarly journals Open Social Knowledge Creation and Library and Archival Metadata

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Dean Seeman ◽  
Heather Dean
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Archival Description ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Social Tagging ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Resource Description

Standardization both reflects and facilitates the collaborative and networked approach to metadata creation within the fields of librarianship and archival studies. These standards—such as Resource Description and Access and Rules for Archival Description—and the theoretical frameworks they embody enable professionals to work more effectively together. Yet such guidelines also determine who is qualified to undertake the work of cataloging and processing in libraries and archives. Both fields are empathetic to facilitating user-generated metadata and have taken steps towards collaborating with their research communities (as illustrated, for example, by social tagging and folksonomies) but these initial experiments cannot yet be regarded as widely adopted and radically open and social. This paper explores the recent histories of descriptive work in libraries and archives and the challenges involved in departing from deeply established models of metadata creation.

scholarly journals What can the African diaspora contribute to innovation and knowledge creation? The case study of Zimbabwean innovators

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s1 ◽  
pp. 101-125
Author(s):  
Juliet Thondhlana ◽  
Roda Madziva ◽  
Evelyn Chiyevo Garwe
Keyword(s):  
Brain Drain ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
Innovation And Development

The importance of diaspora and transnational knowledge production, innovation, and development is of growing interest, particularly in the developing world. The phenomenal increase in high human capital migration from poor to rich countries has historically led to what is commonly known as brain drain, which has negatively impacted the capacity of such countries to innovate. Yet more recently the emergence of the phenomenon of transnationalism has demonstrated the potential to transform brain drain into brain circulation, for the mutual benefit of both sending and receiving contexts. This article uses the case of Zimbabwe to explore the role of diasporan professionals, scholars, and entrepreneurs in contributing to knowledge production, innovation, and development initiatives in their countries of origin. Zimbabwe is an example of many African countries that have experienced substantial attrition of highly qualified knowledge workers for various reasons. A qualitative approach, involving interviews and documentary evidence, enabled the researchers to engage with the Zimbabwean diaspora to capture their narratives regarding the challenges and opportunities, which were then used to develop successful transnational knowledge production initiatives.

Zwischen Naturgeschichte, Statistik und Gesellschaftsroman. Soziographische Wissensordnungen im Kontext einer europäischen Publizistik im 19. Jahrhundert

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-162
Author(s):  
Christiane Schwab
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Scientific Terminology ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Periodical Publishing

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the rise of market-oriented periodical publishing correlated with an increasing desire to inspect the modernizing societies. The journalistic pursuit of examining the social world is in a unique way reflected in countless periodical contributions that, especially from the 1830s onwards, depicted social types and behaviours, new professions and technologies, institutions, and cultural routines. By analysing how these “sociographic sketches” proceeded to document and to interpret the manifold manifestations of the social world, this article discusses the interrelationships between epistemic and political shifts, new forms of medialization and the systematization of social research. It thereby focuses on three main areas: the creative appropriation of narratives and motifs of moralistic essayism, the uses of description and contextualization as modes of knowledge, and the adaptation of empirical methods and a scientific terminology. To consider nineteenth-century sociographic journalism as a format between entertainment, art, and science provokes us to narrate intermedial, transnational and interdisciplinary tales of the history of social knowledge production.

Sharing Scientific and Social Knowledge in a Performance Oriented Industry

2012 ◽  
pp. 1085-1114
Author(s):  
Haris Papoutsakis
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Manufacturing Performance

The chapter evaluates the contribution of shared knowledge and information technology to manufacturing performance. For this purpose, a theoretical model was built and tested in praxis through a research study among manufacturing, quality and R&D groups. The social character of science is perceived as a matter of the aggregation of individuals, not their interactions, and social knowledge as simply the additive outcome of mostly scientists, members of the three groups, making sound scientific judgments. The study results verify the significant contribution of shared knowledge to the manufacturing group performance. They also demonstrate that information technology influences notably the manufacturing group performance and, in a less significant way, the sharing of knowledge. Study results are useful to researchers and the business community alike as they may be used as a springboard for further empirical studies and can help put together strategies involving knowledge management and information technology.

Using Social Networking Analysis to Facilitate Knowledge Sharing in the British Council

2009 ◽  
pp. 1905-1914
Author(s):  
Bonnie Wai-yi Cheuk
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Global Leadership ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Global Databases ◽  
Communication Practice ◽  
British Council ◽  
Km Strategy

Prior to the establishment of the Knowledge Management (KM) strategy, the British Council defined knowledge as objects. Knowledge sharing was about sharing documents and information on the intranet or via global databases. Since December 2002, Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology has been applied to manage knowledge. Knowledge is seen not as a product that can be transferred from one colleague to another but as a communication practice. This means that shared knowledge has to be interpreted and made sense of by its recipients through genuine dialogue. During this phase of KM implementation, the focus shifted to linking up colleagues and providing space for dialogue through building global communities of practice and virtual teams. This article presents an example of how we have used the theory of Social Networking Analysis as a diagnostic tool to promote knowledge sharing among our newly formed 30-people global leadership team. The three steps we have taken to carry out the exercise and its limitations also are discussed.

scholarly journals Anthropology and Open Access

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Baird Jackson ◽  
Ryan Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interview Format ◽  
Practical Information ◽  
Critical Anthropology ◽  
Gold Open Access

In an article coauthored in interview format, the authors introduce open-access practices in an anthropological context. Complementing the other essays in this special section on open access, on the occasion of Cultural Anthropology’s move to one version of the gold open access business model, the focus here is on practical information needed by publishing cultural anthropologists. Despite this limitation, the authors work to touch on the ethical and political contexts of open access. They argue for a critical anthropology of scholarly communication (inclusive of scholarly publishing), one that brings the kinds of engaged analysis for which Cultural Anthropology is particularly well known to bear on this vital aspect of knowledge production, circulation, and valuation.

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