by Scott Rodgers on June 2, 2011
Along with my colleagues Sophie Hope and Lorraine Lim – with whom I am co-organising a postgraduate workshop series – I have been invited to partake in a ‘Live Chat’ hosted by the Guardian Higher Education Network. That chat, which takes place on 3 June 2011, addresses the topic ‘Breaching the digital divide: How could HE better use the internet?’
Sophie and Lorraine very graciously agreed to let me serve as our representative on the panel. The the main thing about the chat however is that it actually has participants (the panel as such is mainly to ensure designated discussants for the duration of the live chat). So, if this is your thing, please do consider joining in at some point on 3 June between 1pm and 4pm. To partake, you simply need to visit the above link and add comments to the article (upon which you’ll be asked to register on The Guardian website, but it’s very simple).
by Scott Rodgers on May 25, 2011
I recently wrote about the Doing research amongst technologies workshop series I am co-organising, and for which I co-convened the opening workshop session. I also had a pleasure of attending the second of the series, convened by a colleague from my Open University days, Joe Smith, a consummate public scholar, both in the broadcast and digital realms. I wrote some reflections on Joe’s session over on the workshop website, which focused on the prospects and challenges of doing ‘digital scholarship’. As ever, Joe provided some interesting and often stunning examples of digital scholarship, many concerning his core research areas of environmental change and the politics of consumption.
by Scott Rodgers on May 17, 2011
A recent adventure in which I’ve been involved in organising (with Sophie Hope and Lorraine Lim) is a Summer Term 2011 postgraduate workshop series on Doing research amongst technologies. Aside from work going into convening the different sessions in the workshop series, I managed to talk myself into co-leading the opening workshop. Luckily, I had a very interesting collaborator in Jake Strickland, a virtuoso user of digital media in his own work as an artist, curator and filmmaker. We decided to start things off by being outrageously foundational, and asked our participants the very basic question: what counts as technologies? An account of how that went, and other things we discussed, can be found by reading some reflections on the session over on the workshop series’ blog/website. Details can also be found there for anyone interested in registering for the sessions to come.
