Social media has become an inescapable part of academic life. It has the power to transform scholarly communication and offers new opportunities to publish and publicise your work, to network in your discipline and beyond and to engage the public. However, to do so successfully requires a careful understanding of best practice, the risks, rewards … Continue reading Social Media for Academics: The Changing Landscape of Scholarship
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Wolfson Education Society meetings
Friday October, 18, 2019, Dr. Mark Carrigan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Culture, Politics and Global Justice Research Cluster, Faculty of Education “What does it mean to platformise a research centre?” Fuchs House Meeting Room, Wolfson College, 17:45-19:00 (Refreshments from 17:30) Research about social media platforms in higher education has tended to focus on individual users, exploring the … Continue reading Wolfson Education Society meetings
Thinking on film: the next two movie screenings
Culture, politics and global justice research cluster is running a series of film screenings showing how contemporary cinema portrays the practice of 'thinking' - whether in the form of philosophy, theory, mathematics, writing, or something else. The Stuart Hall Project 8 November 2019, 5PM, Donald McIntyre Building GS5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA-og9_-Yro Hannah Arendt 15 November 2019, 5PM, … Continue reading Thinking on film: the next two movie screenings
The Platform University 2, November 28th-29th 2019
28 – 29 November 2019 Lancaster University Higher education is increasingly ‘platformised’. Indeed, digital platforms have become ubiquitous. They are dominant intermediaries not only in our social, economic and political life, but have become central forms of capitalist accumulation. While platforms differ in terms of openness to developers and public access to data, they operate … Continue reading The Platform University 2, November 28th-29th 2019
