Research 2.0 - research in an open world

A key skill for being Researcher 2.0 is to be able to juggle the technology and still think, not get distracted by all the technology.  I think we're running away with the technology at the moment - more than one channel can help a discussion, but too many inhibits concentration and forces you in to hit-and-run surface thinking.  If you can do anything at all.

Yes agree,- moments ago I was indeed wondering how I might juggle using eluminate, cloudworks and twitter - and still be thinking about what I wwas doing/thinking....and that's without getting into logging in loops (or constantly forgetting your password)...

If Web 2.0 enables people to collaborate in the creation and sharing of knowledge in new ways, then Researcher 2.0 needs to participate in and learn from these forms of collaboration in order to further our understanding of what we can achieve with these new technologies.

 

 

I think one of the big things about Researcher 2.0 is about researcher identity and how technologies enable us (or perhaps some of us who are good at it) to (re)present ourselves to the world. This is not just true of researchers - look at journalists and celebs use of Twitter ...

 

Technology certainly seems to get in the way sometimes - but also gives alternatve channels when things glitch. Or the weather gets in the way.

Is web 2.0 publishing really suited to professors and less suited to beginning researchers and mid-career (or even advanced/experienced) researchers who don't have the confidence just to put up their daily thoughts as if they are 'truth' and to write about their research without any peer review process?

I think there is a real issue Kim about where researchers are in their professional career - one could argue an established reseacher can afford to be more experimental in their approaches to publishing whereas a new researcher might need to be more cautious and stick to more traditional metrics.

Yes and one could also argue it the other way round - if you aren't established, you are expected to muck about with ideas, change your mind etc.

 

I think it is more complicated than it initially seems. There are confidence issues, motivational issues and identity issues as well as justifying the time spent to your line manager!

I am completely confused about where to put comments - or perhaps it is where this comment is relevant. I hope it doesn't get lost.

 

We seem to be focusing on the web 2.0 bit. But what do we mean by researcher? There seems to be a strong idea of research as publisher and publicist but less about researcher as searching out information/knowledge, thinking about knowledge and theories, creating data, manipulating data, classifying data etc. It could be argued, that what is missing is the bit of researcher as learner.

HI Kim,

I amconfused too about the number areas for comment. No one is really commenting in Elluminate I see, and most comments seem to be here- but that doea mean moving betweeen different screens all the time and also Cloudworks isn't refreshing itself in my screen - so I miss messages when they come and get them later.

I am also interested too in how Web 2 supports all those bits before publication.

 

Hi Kim, Gill

 

How and where people comment where there are mutliple channels to communicate is a real issue. Some people are following these discussions on twitter, some via the comments in here. But the channels are distributed - there is no difinitive source, i think this is true of web 2.0 discourses generally, its about each of us choosing the mix of communication we are comfortable with, and recognising we wont neccessarily follow all of the discusions on a particular topic. Aggregation tools can help but there are still a plethora of them!

Please can someone summarize the main ideas that have come up during the day and what was said about them. Otherwise I don't think we're going to get enough value out of the day.

Hi yes good point Agnes. One thing we have talked about is how we might use Compendium or Cohere to synthesis the key themes which have emerged during the day.

It's entirely right, given who we are, that we're exploring the available technologies. OTOH, we know not just about technology but also about education, and in particular about split-attention effects and about why some kinds of models have not worked so well in the past.