This category collects my latest news, to let you know what I’ve been up to. Click on the titles to go to each post.
The Impact Blog of the London School of Economics and Political Science has published today my post from yesterday ("Twitter as Public Evidence and the Ethics of Twitter Research") under the title Publicly available data from Twitter is public evidence and does not constitute an “ethical dilemma”.
Looking forward to participating in the ACLAIIR AGM & Seminar 2014 in Cambridge on Open Access: “The future of academic publication?” (17 June 2014).
Join us in Cambridge for the ACLAIIR AGM & Seminar 2014, the topic of which is Open Access. We are pleased to welcome speakers from a variety of areas to give their perspectives on OA and its impact on the world of research, teaching and publishing.
Speakers: Ellen Collins (OAPEN UK); Daniel Pearce (CUP); Dr. Rupert Gatti (Open Book Publishers); Dr. Martin Eve (University of Lincoln); Dr. Ernesto Priego (City University, London); Dr. Jenny Bunn (University College, London)
Open Access is curently a hot topic across the globe due to its wide-ranging effects. Many policies and practices are in a state of rapid change, so we hope you will join us to keep up to date with this important subject and contribute to the debate.
The full programme including speaker profiles and registration form are available on our Events page. Please register by Monday 9 June to secure your place!
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Scientific American asks: "Is the use of Twitter as a research tool ethical, given that its users do not intend to contribute to research?" I say: yes.
He compartido un archivo que contiene 2012 tweets marcados con #2EHD entre el 13/05/2014 a las 18:14:42 y el 25/05/2014 a las 20:35:42 hora del DF.
Where I share the results of a quick text analysis of a small corpora of recent tweets from @BBCPolitics and @bbcnickrobinson. I also shared the corpora on fighsare.
An update linking to two of my outputs from the Higher Education Academy’s Digital Humanities Summit (7-8 May 2014, Lewes, UK).
Photos from the ideas jotted down by participants of the Higher Education Academy's Digital Humanities Summit, 7-8 May 2014, Lewes, UK, during the "Narrowing the Focus" session on 8 May 2014.
I have published a new article: Comics Unmasked: A Conversation with Adrian Edwards, lead curator of Printed Historical Sources, The British Library.
Like last year, I attempted to archive the tweets tagged with the HASTAC annual conference's official hashtag (this year #HASTAC2014). I have shared the resulting dataset on figshare.
Where a share video and slides from my plenary talk at the UKSG conference in Harrogate, UK, as well as some data from the #uksglive conference backhannel.
For the past ten weeks we've been unveiling pieces of the complex, large jigsaw puzzle of the libraries and publishing landscape. Our guest today: Alastair Horne.
In our 9th session for #LibPub at #citylis we will discuss researcher-led open access publishing, and tools for online reference management. Featuring a guest lecture by Brian Hole from Ubiquity Press.
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