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Hi all

I’d argue that the sector, at least from an HEI perspective, has changed beyond all recognition since 2008. Isotope and Collective Memory were conceived in a world without impact and student fees; heady days in the current context.

We have social media, of course. We also have the NCCPE, ScienceWise, approaching 7,000 impact case studies from REF 2014, new journals like Research for All, and International Journal of Science Education (Part B: Communication and Engagement). The memories are collected, but in different ways.

The monarch is dead; long live the monarch.

Best wishes

Rick

From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dominic McDonald
Sent: 11 October 2017 17:42
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] What's happened to Collective Memory?

I think it suffered from being a web 2.0 forum at the time when such things were being overtaken by "social media". I can point fingers at people who could have helped but didn't, but the fundamental problem was we forgot the crucial rule that you should always start in places where your audience already feels comfortable, and so when we built a new platform nobody came. In 2008 it don't seem like an obviously awful idea to my naive mind, but you live and learn.

As an aside, it's interesting that the old-fashioned email lists like this one continue to trundle on: in their cockroachish way, when twitbook and facechat are distant memories, psci-com will endure...

Dom

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From: Diana Pearce
Sent: ‎11/‎10/‎2017 17:13
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] What's happened to Collective Memory?

Hi,

Sorry to interject but that made me sad. All’s fair in love and scicomm, I guess?

Is it a case of the sector changing so fast that things like ‘collective memory’ don’t get the uptake they deserve?

Diana

From: Dominic McDonald
Sent: 11 October 2017 16:55
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Subject: [PSCI-COM] FW: [PSCI-COM] What's happened to Collective Memory?

It is no more. Sniff.

I helped to give birth to it, but it never got the uptake it needed to really work. So I reluctantly acquiesced to its being packed off to the knacker’s yard last year.

The fact that it’s taken anyone till now to notice tells its own story: another example from the list of things that looked good on paper that didn’t work in practice (cf the list of things that people wanted to want but didn’t really want).

So it goes.

Dom

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Hello PSCI-Commers,

Apologies if this question has already been covered, but does anyone know what's happened to the Collective Memory website hosted by the BSciA (http://collectivememory.britishscienceassociation.org/) - which is now a very sad blank webpage...

Are there any plans to reinstate it or to host the collected documents elsewhere?

Thanks a lot, Alison.

(Ogden Trust / Bristol ChemLabS / University of Bristol Centre for Public Engagement)

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