#DHThis and the Social Media Research Cycle

Adeline Koh @adelinekohDirector of DH@Stockton,

Assistant Professor of Literature, Richard Stockton College

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What is #DHThis?

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What is #DHThis?

Experiment in new forms of publishing

Joint project by myself, Roopika Risam (@roopikarisam), Alex Gil (@elotroalex), Jesse Stommel (@jessifer), Martin Eve (@martin_eve)

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What is #DHThis?Community based aggregator based on the Pligg system

“Slashdot” for digital humanities

Employs voting system

Anyone can sign up to be a user/submit

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How does #DHThis Work?5

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Published on #DHThis7

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Why #DHThis?

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#DHThis provides an alternative framework to the editorial model, where a few editors get to determine what sort of content gets published

Only complement: DHNow. But:

Also relies on editorial model to showcase content.

While DHNow pulls in from many feeds (anyone can add to), these feeds are not easily findable from DHNow site.

Note: originally when DHNow was first incepted, they conceived of a similar crowdsourcing platform but switched to editorial because of lack of diversity

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Why #DHThis?

But--Digital Humanities growing as a field. #DHThis helps create the forum for a larger community to have a say.

#DHThis goal: To provide a platform to share information & give feedback for/within a community.

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#DHThis Goals

Create a community-based system/platform

Aims to both build community and provide framework for community to interact

Also through “Groups” allows the formation of different communities/subcommunities

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#DHThis & the Research Cycle

Serves to demonstrate what a community finds engaging about different subjects

Way to get initial feedback/craft reactions to a project/find better ways of expressing it

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#DHThis & the Research Cycle Extends functions of blogs by signal boosting their content. Additionally provides information abt who might be interested in your work through upvotes/comments

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#DHThis Limitations

Popularity Contest?

Up/Down Voting not adequate for academic subjects?

Downvoting does not help with community building

Categories on header cannot be dynamically determined by individual user

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Next Steps

Next iterations of #DHThis:

Possible employment of Reddit platform, to allow for user-generated subreddits

Hackathon/Theory-athon at #DH2014, and maybe this afternoon at Studio@Butler

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And Finally... the #DHThis Cat15

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