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On Weeks 3 and 4; Easter Break; The Future*

~ Ernesto Priego

A quick post at the Digital Cultures blog on Weeks 3 and 4, with some photos of our superstar guest lecturers.

Ernesto Priego's avatarDigital Cultures (AMM 421)

It’s been quite a journey: it makes sense that given that we have been discussing the implications of using digital media everything has passed so fast and at the same time it’s been quite labour-intensive.

The materials we have collected on Moodle are a good indicator of the intensity and complexity of the questions we have been working on, and a quick look at the links we have collected under the #CityDigiCult hashtag on Twitter gives us back a plethora of work to consider.

On Week 3 I really enjoyed how we went from Sabrina Francis’ presentation on social media strategy at City University London to historical and theoretical questions of collaboration and authorship in art in Blaise Cronin’s guest lecture.

In Spyridon Georgadis’ talk we also had the opportunity to find out how the British Council  engages with its audience via social media, how to deal with some of…

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~ Ernesto Priego

Week 4: Networks and Participatory Culture. Digital Cultures is running at full steam now. Guests: Tim Causer, Eliza Anyangwe, Martin Eve and Nora McGregor.

Ernesto Priego's avatarDigital Cultures (AMM 421)

The UK might be bracing itself for Arctic conditions and floods but Digital Cultures is running at full steam now. Today Friday 22th March 2013 we’ll have a very exciting set of sessions.

The timetable for today is

10:30-12:50

  • Crowdsourcing: Engagement, Participation- Tim Causer, Transcribe Bentham, UCL
  • Professional Networks: Community Management, Digital Engagement and Participation – Eliza Anyangwe, Guardian Professional Networks

14.00-16:30

  • Bridging Media: Grassroots Campaigns, Activist Projects and the Open Library of Humanities -Martin Eve, Lincoln University
  • Digital Scholarship Strategy at the Britsh Library:  Nora McGregor, Librarian/Digital Curator – British Library – Digital Curator at the British Library

As usual any tweets about these sessions please use the hashtag #CityDigiCult.

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At Altmetric: On Digital Opportunity and Africa

~ Ernesto Priego

My new post at Altmetric is guided by the concept of digital opportunity. I take a quick look at some research on the uptake of ICTs and social media in Africa and link to and comment on Altmetric details of two articles on Africa.

At Altmetric: Insights from “The Individual and Scholarly Networks”

~ Ernesto Priego

At Altmetric, my notes on an online seminar I took on "Building Networks and Evaluating Network Relationships.”