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Scholarship for the Facebook generation
SPARC-ACRL Forum '08 from Matt Agnello on Vimeo.
A fascinating panel on "Working with the Facebook generation: Engaging students views on access to scholarship" at the recent SPARC-ACRL Forum, as captured on video by Matt Agnello. From the SPARC website:
Tech-savvy students, who live and breathe information sharing, are critical to changing the way scholarly communication is conducted. Not bound by traditional modes of research exchange, students are using all the technologies at their disposal to engage in scholarly discourse - including blogs, wikis and tagging tools. What will they do next? How do they view the future of scholarly exchange?
The third speaker is Andre Brown from one of our favourite blogs, Biocurious, who explains how blogs are simply another medium for comuunication - no more, no less. However, the potential of blogs and wikis for the dissemination of research is enormous and is roughly at the same stage the general web was 15 years ago i.e. it's about to explode and take us places we can't yet imagine, but we are going to like.
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Posted by places on January 22, 2008 at 11:51 AM GMT #