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Notes from today, and reading and blogging assignments for Monday, October 29

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Today we continued our discussion of the process of research. We took a look at Easybib.com, a new library resource that helps with documenting research resources and organizing ideas into an outline. For some help visualizing your ideas, try experimenting with concept mapping using bubbl.us, a way to organize your ideas by showing relationships between them. If you have questions about the annotated bibliography assignment, please get in touch. We’ll be discussing it more in the next few class meetings.

On Monday 10/29 we’ll discuss internet research strategies. For Monday please read Badke, chapter 6 (entire) and chapter 7, pp. 161-162 only. For your first research journal blog post, respond to the following questions in one 100-word post:

You are working on choosing a topic and developing a research question for your paper. What difficulties (if any) have you encountered as you work on your research proposal?
What strategies (if any) have you used successfully during this work?
What questions (if any) do you have about the assignment?

Slides from today are available here.

~Prof. Leonard

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Notes from today, and reading and blogging assignment for Wednesday, October 17

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Today we discussed metadata, controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and folksonomies. I hope you got a chance to experiment with blog post tagging using the controlled vocabulary of the LC subject headings. Slides from today are available here.

On Wednesday we’ll begin our discussion of the mechanics of searching, including how search engines works and search engine optimization. For Wednesday, 10/17 please read the following:

Your blogging assignment is one reading response blog post.

Remember to get in touch if you have any questions about the research topic proposal, due on Wednesday, October 24. I’ll make time to continue working on the topic development exercise when we meet Wednesday.

~Prof. Leonard

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Notes from today, and reading/blogging homework for Wednesday, October 10

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Today we discussed plagiarism, and perhaps raised many more questions than answers. Here are screenshots of the results of the in-class cell phone poll:

Next week we’ll discuss copyright and fair use, and briefly revisit Open Access. For next Wednesday 10/10, please read Center for Social Media, Code of Best Practices for Media Literacy Education; the “Code” and “Principles” sections only. View the following 3 videos: Lessig, Laws that Choke Creativity
Faden, A Fair(y) Use Tale
Grey, Copyright: F0rever Less One Day
Your blogging assignment is one reading/viewing response blog post.

Slides from today, including the sample research topics and examples of research questions, are available here. Please get in touch if you have questions about the research topic proposal assignment, which is due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, October 24.

Enjoy the long weekend!

~Prof. Leonard

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Notes from today, and reading/blogging homework for Wednesday, October 3

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Today we discussed the legal, social, and ethical aspects of privacy, especially privacy in an online, networked world. We did not get a chance to fully discuss informed consent — what if websites asked for our consent each time they collected information or set a cookie? Take a look at your browser settings and review what cookies have been set on your computer. Any surprises?

On Wednesday we’ll discuss plagiarism and attempt an activity using your phones to voice your opinions on some aspects of academic integrity. Please read Isserman, Plagiarism: a Lie of the Mind (log in to the Chronicle of Higher Education through the library website) and Widdicombe, The Plagiarist’s Tale. Your blogging assignment is one reading response blog post.

Slides from today are available here.

See you Wednesday,

Prof. L.

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Notes from today, and reading/blogging homework for Monday, September 24

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Today we discussed Web 2.0, social media, social networking, and participatory media. The typewith.me document we created is available here. We ran out of time before we could view and discuss a few videos in class. One is the Tim Berners-Lee TED talk embedded in the open data article you read for today; the other is The Machine is Us/ing Us:

On Monday 9/24, we’ll move into a discussion of access — personal and institutional, and the digital divide. Please read Martin, The Politics of Research (pdf). Use the comments feature of the course site to comment on a classmate’s blog post: one comment of at least 100 words or 2 comments of 50 words minimum on 2 different posts. Please get in touch if you have any questions or issues with the comment feature.

Slides from today are available here.

 

~Prof. Leonard

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Homework 3 – Digital Media and its distribution

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As an audio and video engineer, and also a producer,I’ve seen first hand the arguments presented by Radiohead and Elton.  It seems to me however that the fault still lays on the labels, specifically the major ones, whose abuses in the past have turned off many people to their necessity. Excessive markups and huge profits compared to the same artists who’ve brought them said money, is unfair, to say the least. I feel like this is something that can be worked on, like Elton said, if they so desire. Right now, they seem to have their nose in the air. The Pavlik reading brought an interesting idea to mind regarding a media guide. I’d like to see how that could happen but again it would seem to require cooperation by the video hosts themselves, the new record labels and tv studios if you will.

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HW-Blog Post #1

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Reading Chap. 1 of Badke’s book, I can see my habits time and time again. I’m one of those “Googlers,” finding the basic info on a topic I know little about, put my opinions if needed and pray for an A. In Chap. 1, he explains the info fog and how before the “.com’s” they were traditional socities: like when a family member tells you a secret recipe that has been passed down generation after generation, and the printing press: the reason why it doesn’t take months to replicate a book, magazine or journal. The reason why I “googled” because it was the easy way. It takes time to look in a library/encyclopedia and gather all of the un-biased info that you need for a research paper when the top 5 websites discussing the generalization of your topic is within a search. Forget checking the credibility of the site & source. After reading this chapter, I realized I wasn’t putting 100% when it comes to getting info/checking sources and I plan to change that this semester.

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Notes from today, and reading and blogging assigments for Wednesday, September 12

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Today we discussed non-text media in digital and analog formats, in particular some of the advantages, disadvantages, and challenges presented by the ease of creation and distribution of digital media. We ran out of time before we could discuss a relevant and recent article about digital vs. analog in the film industry, Film Is Dead? Long Live Movies: How Digital Is Changing the Nature of Movies. Take a look if you like; in it, the differences in the technologies are explained, and different film critics voice their opinions about each medium and the issues in general.

On Wednesday, September 12, we’ll discuss alternative print and digital media. I have to go out of town, so please welcome our guest lecturers, my colleagues Professor Maura Smale of the Library department at City Tech and Professor Susan Thomas of the Library department at Long Island University. For Wednesday, please read the following:

Thomas Eland, Critical thinking, deviant knowledge and the alternative press
Fred Wright, The history and characteristics of zines, part I
Zine World, Zines 101 — A quick guide to zines
Write one 100-word reading response blog post.

Looking ahead to next week, remember that classes are cancelled on Monday, September 17 and Tuesday, September 18. The college and the library are OPEN.

Slides from today are available here.

~Prof. Leonard

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HW #3 Producers of digital Media

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Through reading Pavlik’s, “Producers Of Digital Media” I took a big understanding to how and why media changed through time. In the reading it was confirmed that most of the newspapers were privately owned, however many people were into blogging. So the privately owned newspapers had to start allowing the publics voice in the paper or they would end up with no sales. The reason being is that people would simply go online and look at blog post for recent news and unbiased thoughts. The way that we know the internet plays a big role is even the presidential candidates promote very hard through internet ads on common websites like youtube. That goes to show that the internet is very powerful because if people promote on their to be world leaders harder then they do on the public campaigns then you know that the online community is very large and at the same time very powerful.

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Research Strategies / HW 1

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I’ve never been an amazing student, having falling out of love with reading and writing sometime around 6th grade. Interestingly enough, there have been occasions where I’ve submitted papers in 6 hours after I began them, and have gotten solid grades. Reading chapters 1 and 8 of Badke’s “Research Strategies” reminded of this; of times as a child in these places called “libraries”, an ancient lore. Surely I jest, as this class takes place and is labeled as a library class. As a member of “Generation Y”, the group which caused the technological boom of recent times, it’s interesting to see myself reading this book on my iPad and sharing my response digitally on a blog. It’s also interesting that I remember specific instances of me being a research glutton, as well as writing papers via a stack of notes, one main source, and as a quoter.  I question my academic future had I available a book like this one score ago, if I would even be at this school right now. I look to consider all of these techniques and create my own plan of attack, as my jack-of-all-trades personality allows, of not forces, me to do so

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