Robin Good: Content Curation as a Problem-Solving, Re-Assembling and Stewardship Process

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Content Curation as a Problem-Solving, Re-Assembling and Stewardship Process

Ibrar Bhatt, shares some of the insights he has been been able to discover in his research work for his forthcoming PhD thesis (“A sociomaterial account of assignment writing in Further Education classrooms”) for the University of Leeds.

In his short blog analysis he first comprehensively defines the new emerging content curation space, and then he highlights

the relevance this may have, once it is validated and acknowledged, in allowing students to explore the creation of reports and the development of new work assignments in a new light.

Here a few brief excerpts:

These processes are, … about anthologising older content to produce new content and creating a new experience for readers, by giving a new life (or new ‘reality’) to an older text.

This is curation as a digital literacy practice.

“…prolific Web users have often made themselves effective digital curators by searching and locating information, then creating a new experience by re-contextualising it.

…Digital curation therefore is not just about finding relevant material, although that is a significant part of it, but is also about creating a specific and unique experience by utilising the resulting materials which then become contextualised within a new space.

A curator, therefore, whether she is a journalist-by-proxy such as Popova or a student completing an assignment in a classroom, not only collects and interprets, but also creates a new experience with it.

In this respect, curation is a process of problem solving, re-assembling, re-creating, and stewardship of other people’s writing.

Insightful. Resourceful. Informative. 8/10

Full article: http://ibrarspace.net/2014/05/21/curation-as-a-digital-literacy-practice/

Reading time: 11′

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