On Saturday, 23 September 2017, the LC Labs team joined representatives from cultural heritage organizations, archives, libraries, and historical organizations for DC History for All: Volunteer Fair. The event matched dozens of interested volunteers with opportunities to preserve Washington, D.C. history. There are many cultural heritage and historical organizations located in D.C. that invite the […]
Academic communication, academic hierarchies, career planning motive, community development motive, digital scholarship, Early career researchers, Featured, following behaviour, free, Higher Education, information motive, Social Media, social media dynamics, strategic politeness, Twitter
New media, familiar dynamics: academic hierarchies influence academics’ following behaviour on Twitter
For what reasons do academics follow one another on Twitter? Robert Jäschke, Stephanie B. Linek and Christian P. Hoffmann analysed the Twitter activity of computer scientists and found that while the quality of information provided by a Twitter account is a key motive for following academic colleagues, there is also evidence of a career planning motive. As well as there […]
arts and humanities research, economic determinism, Featured, free, Government, Higher Education, Irish R&D, Irish research, R&D, research evaluation, Research funding, research priorities
Government policies favouring research for economic returns can overlook existing strengths in arts and humanities
There is an argument that the best way for governments to allocate resources for research is to prioritise those areas most likely to deliver economic returns. Andrew Gibson and Ellen Hazelkorn explain how, shortly after its Great Recession, Ireland prioritised research fields aligned with industrial sectors rather than disciplinary excellence or societal challenges. By starting with an orientation toward the […]
algorithmic regulation, algorithms, big data, Book Reviews, Cheney-Lippold, Data, Data science, free, Mark Hemmings, we are data
Book Review: We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves by John Cheney-Lippold
In We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves, John Cheney-Lippold examines how algorithms increasingly interpret and influence our behaviour. With the author concluding with some pragmatic suggestions for challenging the digital status quo, Daniel Zwi welcomes the book for both capably elucidating the problem of algorithmic regulation and forearming us to tackle this issue. This review originally appeared on LSE Review of […]
crowdsourcing, Digital Content, Digital Humanities, digital scholarship, NDI, Tools and Infrastructure
Introducing Beyond Words
As a part of Library of Congress Labs release last week, the National Digital Initiatives team launched Beyond Words. This pilot crowdsourcing application was created in collaboration with the Serial and Government Publications Division and the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) at the Library of Congress. In our first week and a half, […]
applied research, boundary spanners, Evidence-based Research, Featured, free, knowledge exchange, research-practice divide, role management strategies
To wear many different hats: how do scholar-practitioners span boundaries between academia and practice?
Scholar-practitioners are those individuals who succeed in spanning the boundaries between academia and practice. Guillaume Carton and Paula Ungureanu‘s research sought to better understand scholar-practitioners; the multiple roles they perform across each world, the perceived synergies and tensions, and the strategies employed to manage them. A key tension exists between institutional pressures for hyper-specialisation and scholar-practitioners’ personal aspirations that their […]