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And a related event... Jo Webb Academic Services Manager / National Teaching Fellow De Montfort University -----Original Message----- From: The DMU Creative Technologies Conversation [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bruce Mason Sent: 08 August 2007 15:28 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [IOCT] Tags, Networks and Narrative - public seminar, 11am, September 18, 2007, IOCT, De Montfort University, Leicester Tags, Networks and Narrative: a seminar at De Montfort University 11:00-12:30, September 18, 2007 Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester UK. LE1 9BH Free and open to the public. The electronic environment has transformed the resources available to the academic researcher, most recently in the area of collaboration and new kinds of knowledge management. There may be a lot of hype around notions such as "web2.0" and "folksonomy" and websites such as "YouTube" and "Facebook" but beneath the buzz it is possible that some of these online services may provide valuable unconventional opportunities to connect researchers across widely-differing disciplines. In this seminar, the project team from the AHRC-funded research project Tags Networks Narratives http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/tnn/ <https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ioct.dmu .ac.uk/tnn/> will present some results from their research into the interdisciplinary application of experimental social software to the study of narrative in digital contexts and examine the potential for collaborative social-software techniques such as folksonomy in narrative research. The seminar will explore the following topics. * The kinds of collaborative social network tools available for the gathering and classification of information. * The findings from a study in which a group of participants "tagged" websites using the social bookmarking website "Del.icio.us <https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://del.icio.us> ." * Advice for researchers on making effective use of social network tools to share knowledge and develop interdisciplinary collaborations. * Suggestions for future research in this area. The seminar will not require specialist knowledge on behalf of the audience but a basic understanding of how the web works will be assumed. The seminar is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available from 10.30am. This seminar forms part of the "Interdisciplinary application of experimental social software to the study of narrative in digital contexts <https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ioct.dmu .ac.uk/tnn/index.html> " research project. The project is based in the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT) <https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ioct.dmu .ac.uk/> at De Montfort University <https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.dmu.ac.u k/> , Leicester UK and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board <https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ahrc.ac. uk/> from October 2006-September 2007. The project team consists of Professor Sue Thomas, Simon Mills and Bruce Mason. To find out more about this research please see the website at http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/tnn/ <https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ioct.dmu .ac.uk/tnn/> The seminar will be followed by a free public lecture at 2pm the same day by Thomas Vander Wal, inventor of the term 'folksonomy'. For information about this event please visit http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/tnn/vanderwal07.htm <https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ioct.dmu .ac.uk/tnn/vanderwal07.htm> The seminar is organised in partnership with Production and Research in Transliteracy group http://www.transliteracy.com <https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.translit eracy.com> For more information and directions to the venue visit http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/tnn/Seminar07.htm <https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ioct.dmu .ac.uk/tnn/Seminar07.htm> Bruce Mason, Research Fellow Tags Networks Narrative Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK United Kingdom +44 (0)116 250 6509 http:/www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/tnn ---------- IOCT http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk IOCT Salon http://www.ioctsalon.com/ The DMU Creative Technologies Conversation is an in-house discussion list for DMU colleagues. It is managed by Profs Sue Thomas & Andrew Hugill at the Institute of Creative Technologies and is archived at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ioct.html. For an invitation to join, please email [log in to unmask]