Collaboration & social media

LIBR559M, February 9th, 2016

Module 3 (Collaboration) activities, February 9th, 2016

1) Guest speaker Dr. Mary Sue Stephenson, B.A. (Texas), M.L.S., Ph.D. (N. Texas), SLAIS Faculty Member, Senior Instructor and Graduate Adviser

2) Module III: what is collaboration and its connection to social media? http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Collaboration_2.0

3) Dr. Nicole Ellison video re: collaborative platforms

4) Models & theory in collaboration

5) Reading: discussion of Sally Ellis1 article in Libri, 2014

Learning objectives Examine concepts in collaboration vis a vis social media Consider “relevant theory” in collaboration Continue discussion ….why is collaboration important in our field Case examples: emerging research in collaboration & social media

UMichigan School of Information “social computing”

“…Social computing is an area of computer science concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computational

systems… and based on creating or (re)creating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software

and information technologies…”

https://www.si.umich.edu/research/social-computing

Social computing at UMichigan iSchool

https://www.si.umich.edu/people/nicole-ellison

Collaboration theory is contested

“…‘collaboration’ is a widely used term but not well understood… collaboration scholarship is

emerging [but] diverges into several directions, resulting in confusion about what collaboration is

and what it can be used to accomplish…”-- Morris et al, 2015

THINK – PAIR – SHARE

Review: Collaboration AND social media

why collaborate? what role does social media play re: collaboration in the digital age? does it play a role?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuR4ebhRpOk

Constructivism (learning theory), provides clues about ‘how’ learners

create new knowledge …

Vygotsky (1978)Piaget (1960)

Knowledge is a social construct

http://pyxisjournal.com/new-blog/2012/10/26/the-theory-generation

Collaborative learning is a massive trend in education

Constructivism, as a learning theory, is widely-accepted

Knowledge creation happens… through collaboration

https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/technology-enhanced-learning-1/collaborative-knowledge-creation/

Anne B. Piternick "Author problems in a collaborative research project." Journal of Scholarly

Publishing 25.1 (1993): 21-37.

“…multidisciplinary collaborative projects can be rewarding but pose problems in ensuring that authors

receive fair credit for their work [creating the Historical Atlas of Canada]…” – Piternick (1993)

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/anne-piternick-7281516

Connectivism: knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore learning consists of an ability to

construct and traverse those networks

Metcalfe’s law Dunbar number

Network “effects” & network theory Social network analysis

Pareto principle

Ideas related…