Workshop 4: Online platforms for research dissemination
September 2008, Goldsmiths, University of London
Professor Les Back and Paul Halliday
This workshop will look at the opportunities for building an online presence
for researchers and research projects. It will look at the
practicalities of creating websites, using .pdf formats and the use of
DVDs to create new
kinds of research texts. Following the structure of Workshop Three the
session will combine classroom teaching and learning with
practice-oriented sessions in the digital laboratory based in the
Sociology Department and
the Digital Studios recently established by the College.
The workshop will:
- explore the opportunities afforded by new media to develop relations to users
- address the implications of relating to users as co-producers of a ‘live’ research project
- assess the implications of representation as acting with and on behalf of subjects of research
- look at the possibilities for using on-line journals and on-line publications
- consider how the use of new media may challenge social scientific understandings of representation.