[Web4lib] Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: (Re)Use / (Re)Mix / (Re)New

[Gerry Mckiernan]

Friends/

I am pleased to announce the publication of my abstract for my planned
presentation at the forthcoming  3rd International Plagiarism Conference
/ 
" Transforming Practice for an Authentic Future" / 23 - 25 June 2008 /
City Campus East / Northumbria University / 
Newcastle-upon-tyne, UK.

/Gerry

Day 2 / Wednesday / 25th June 2008
2.00 pm - 3.00 pm
Keynote 4
Gerry McKiernan
Iowa State University, US.

_Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: (Re)Use / (Re)Mix
/ (Re)New_

Hadrian's Wall is a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman
Empire across the width of modern-day England. ... [It was] 117
kilometres long, ... [I]ts width and height [were] dependent on the
construction materials [that] ... were available nearby. ... [T]he wall
in the east follow[ed] the outcrop of a hard, resistant igneous diabase
rock escarpment. ... Local limestone was used in the construction,
except for ... section[s] in the west ... where turf was used instead
... . The Broad Wall was initially built with a clay-bonded rubble core
and mortared dressed rubble facing stones, but this seems to have made
it vulnerable to collapse, and repair with a mortared core was sometimes
necessary.... [I]n time ... [Hadrian's] Wall was abandoned and fell into
ruin. Over the centuries and even into the twentieth century a large
proportion of the stone was reused in other local buildings.

Throughout history, humans have (re)used local resources to create not
only buildings and fortifications, but monuments, roads, and a wide
variety of other structures. For countless generations, artists,
composers, and writers have freely incorporated elements from local and
distant cultures to create new visual, musical, and textual forms.

In The Web 2.0 World, the open (re)combination of multiple media has
become commonplace in many venues, practices that Lawrence Lessig,
founder of Creative Commons, and others, would characterize as
emblematic of a 'Remix ' or 'Read/Write' culture. Indeed, from his point
of view, *the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is
fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process.*

In the recently-released Horizon Report 2008 - a joint publication of
the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
(ELI), six emerging information technologies and practices that are
expected to significantly impact educational organizations are profiled:
Grassroots Video, Collaborative Webs, Mobile Broadband, Data Mashups,
Collaborative Intelligence, and Social Operating Systems

In this presentation, we will review the Read/Write Traditions of the
Arts, Humanities, and Sciences; analyze key Past / Present / Future
Participatory Technologies; and explore the potential of Web 2.0 for
creating/fostering Disruptive Learning / Scholarship / Teaching in the
21st century.

Access To The Full Programme Of Excellent Presentation Topic Abstracts 
(With Links To Keynote And Guest Speaker Bios ) AND Links Within My
Abstract Is Available At:

[
http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/04/disruptive-scholarship-idea-whose-time.html
]

OR

[ http://tinyurl.com/47gwc9 ]

I would appreciate Any/All Feedback on the theme of my presentation (as
you will read, it's is open to wide interpretation)  and/or relevant
cites/sites.

***Please Make Recommendations As Comments on The Blog Entry***

Thanks A Million!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

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