Registration Open: Unexpected Authors and Their Impact on Scholarly Research
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May 1, 2013 at 12:10 pm #16581
Maura A. Smale (she/her)
ParticipantRegistration 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 308Register 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 CitiesPaul 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
May 12, 2013 at 10:25 pm #28296Maura A. Smale (she/her)
ParticipantWe’re looking forward to our Computers and Crowds program this Friday 5/17! Here are the readings for the three breakout sessions. See you there!
(P.S. If you haven’t registered yet and are interested in coming to the event, please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wk9qf7u4GdXztpwpk9PRniw2ZmPUeCXwFzwsnlUe1PM/viewform?pli=1)
1) Content Farms
Roth, Daniel. “The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model.” Wired. Conde Nast, 19 Oct. 2009.http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/all/
Eskenazi, Joe. “Top 5 Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World!” SF Weekly. 3 October 2012. Web. 2 May 2013. http://www.sfweekly.com/2012-10-03/news/bleacher-report-sports-journalism-internet-espn-news-technology/full/
NOTE: Notice the use of SEO in the web address; the article is NOT about ESPN.
Kennedy, Shirley Duglin. “‘Content farms,’ information literacy, and you.” Information Today Nov. 2010: 17+. Academic OneFile. Web. 28 Feb. 2013. http://go.galegroup.com.dmvgateway.nysed.gov/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA241279845&v=2.1&u=nysl_ca_novelus&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w
2) Algorithm-written Content
Levy, Steven. “Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter.” Gadget Lab. Wired, 4 April 2012. Web. 2 May 2013. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/can-an-algorithm-write-a-better-news-story-than-a-human-reporter/all/
Ashton, Pete. “Dictionary + algorithm + PoD t-shirt printer + lucrative meme = rape t-shirts on Amazon.” I Am Pete Ashton. 2 March 2013. Web. 2 May 2013. http://iam.peteashton.com/keep-calm-rape-tshirt-amazon/
Finley, Klint. “Coders Can’t Put Writers Out Of A Job Yet, But We’d Better Watch Our Backs.” TechCrunch. 25 August 2012. Web. 2 May 2013. http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/25/coders-cant-put-writers-out-of-a-job-yet-but-wed-better-watch-our-backs/
Sample Content: The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats in Greater China: http://www.amazon.com/2009-2014-Outlook-Toilet-Seats-Greater/dp/B001SNVXYA
3) Crowdsourcing
Wolff, Michael. “Did NPR’s Andy Carvin overreach his Twitter calling on Newtown shooting?” theguardian.co.uk. 17 December 2012. Web. 7 May 2013. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/npr-andy-carvin-overreach-newtown
Carvin, Andy. “In Response to Michael Wolff and the Guardian.” Storify. 2012. Web. 7 May 2013. http://storify.com/acarvin/in-response-to-michael-wolff-and-the-guardian
Brabham, Daren C. “The Myth of Amateur Crowds.” Information, Communication & Society, 15.3: 394-410. 2012. Web. 7 May 2013. http://dbrabham.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/brabham-2012-ics-the-myth-of-amateur-crowds.pdf
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