David Jimenez: Visual Understanding Environment – Open Source, Tufts, Digital Education and Research
The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. 03.08.12 – Release of VUE 3.1.2 …
Berto Jongman: Lisa Stamnitzky on Terrorism Research — Neither Scientific nor Legitimate
Disciplining an Unruly Field: Terrorism Experts and Theories of Scientific/Intellectual Production Lisa Stampnitzky Qual Sociol DOI 10.1007/s11133-010-9187-4 Abstract “Terrorism” has proved to be a highly problematic object of expertise. Terrorism studies fails to conform to the most common sociological notions of what a field of intellectual production ought to look like, and has been described …
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Steven Lubar: Scholarly Research and Writing in the Digital Age
Scholarly Research and Writing in the Digital Age EXTRACT: Along the way, I kept track of my process, to help me think about a talk I’ll be giving in October. I send students off to write research papers, and so I should be reflexive about my own work, in order to better teach them how to …
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Howard Rheingold: How to manage a research library with Zotero
How to manage a research library with Zotero | Impact of Social Sciences Infotention-technique-rich — Howard “Keeping up to date with research and managing an ever-increasing number of journal articles is skill that must be well-honed by academics. Here, Alex Hope sets out how his workflow has developed using Zotero, Dropbox, Goodreader and his iPad.” …
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Patrick Meier: Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī: An Update from the Qatar Computing Research Institute
EXTRACT: This brings me to the Qatar (Foundation) Computing Research Institute (QCRI), which was almost called the al-Khwārizmī Computing Research Institute. I joined QCRI exactly two weeks ago as Director of Social Innovation. My first impression? QCRI is Doha’s “House of Whizzkids”. The team is young, dynamic, international and super smart. I’m already working on several exploratory …
