{"id":381,"date":"2009-05-02T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T17:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2009\/05\/02\/twitter-and-scholarship-not-just-a-toy\/"},"modified":"2009-05-02T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T17:01:57","slug":"twitter-and-scholarship-not-just-a-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2009\/05\/02\/twitter-and-scholarship-not-just-a-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter and Scholarship: Not just a toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/files\/2009\/05\/spdgorget_dm.gif\" width=\"184\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" \/>A couple weeks ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancohen.org\/\">Dan Cohen<\/a> decided to try a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancohen.org\/2009\/04\/29\/the-spider-and-the-web-results\/\">live Twitter experiment<\/a> in crowdsourcing during his live presentation at a conference. The experiment is described in his blog post summary. was to use Twitter to &#8220;replicate digitally the traditional \u201cauthor\u2019s query,\u201d where a scholar asks readers of a journal for assistance with a research project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He posted an image of a historic artifact, then asked people to try and identify it or come up with information about it. Within 9 minutes he had the answer, and within a half hour there were about 100 collective responses providing a &#8220;fairly rich description&#8221; along with resources and citations.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular note were the conversations and discussions, abbreviated though each post may have been due to Twitter&#8217;s limits, that swirled around the topic. Granted, Cohen has quite a few followers and there was a certain amount of excitement in being part of this experiment. Yet the fact remains that in this case Twitter did fulfill a scholarly function.<\/p>\n<p>His summary here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancohen.org\/2009\/04\/29\/the-spider-and-the-web-results\/\">http:\/\/www.dancohen.org\/2009\/04\/29\/the-spider-and-the-web-results\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=7f50a926-0a8d-817d-af2c-16e744281ed8\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago Dan Cohen decided to try a live Twitter experiment in crowdsourcing during his live presentation at a conference. The experiment is described in his blog post summary. was to use Twitter to &#8220;replicate digitally the traditional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2009\/05\/02\/twitter-and-scholarship-not-just-a-toy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}