Registration now open!
Computers and Crowds: Unexpected Authors and Their Impact on Scholarly Research.
Friday, May 17th ; 9:30am-12:30pm
Graduate School of Journalism, Room 308
Register online at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wk9qf7u4GdXztpwpk9PRniw2ZmPUeCXwFzwsnlUe1PM/viewform?pli=1
Join us for an exciting half-day session that begins with an introduction to new content production models and ends with a moderated breakout discussions of specific topics in the field. This free program is open to all CUNY librarians.
Part 1:
Hats, farms, and bubbles: How emerging marketing & content production models are making research more difficult (and what you and your students can do about it)
Description:
Google, and other search engines, have made tremendous progress organizing the world’s knowledge. However, accessing that knowledge is becoming increasingly difficult because of emerging marketing and content production models utilized by high-ranking sites like eHow.com <http://eHow.com> and ExpertVillage.com <http://ExpertVillage.com> . Search Engine Optimization (SEO), “content farms” and Google’s increasingly personalized search algorithms are making search engines less effective as academic research tools. Therefore students are exposed to more shallow, low quality results than ever before. In this session, learn more about the technologies behind these emerging marketing and content production models. Learn strategies faculty, students, and librarians can use to respond to new information environment.
Speakers:
Kate Peterson
Information Literacy Librarian, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Paul Zenke
DesignLab/Digital Humanities Initiative Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison <http://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-wisconsin-madison?trk=ppro_cprof>
Part 2:
Three concurrent breakout conversations on content farms, algorithm-written content, and crowdsourcing. Recommended readings will be made available in advance on the Academic Commons.
A joint program brought to you by the LACUNY Emerging Technologies Committee, the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable, LILAC, and the Office of Library Services
