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Using Hypothes.is

The Disrupted Journal Team — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:36:31 +0000

To enable and structure the conversations around the content of this special ‘disrupted’ issue of the Journal of Media Practice, we are planning to use hypothes.is. Kris Schaffer (http://kris.shaffermusic.com/2016/04/hypothesis-public-research-notebook/) gives a useful summary of what hypothes.is is and does: ‘Hypothes.is is an open annotation tool for the web, allowing anyone to highlight, annotate, or comment on any webpage via a Chrome plugin (web developers can also install it on their sites, like I have with my blog). It’s similar to how Medium users can annotate and highlight blog posts on that platform, but you can use the hypothes.is plugin on any website. It’s important to note that hypothes.is users don’t alter the original website. Rather the hypothes.is plugin adds an annotation/highlighting layer over the webpage that only hypothes.is users can see, and hypothes.is users can toggle that annotation/highlighting layer on and off as they like.’

With the aid of hypothes.is we will thus create a comment or annotation layer over your various projects, binding them together to some extent, and enabling the disrupted JMP community to establish connections and to interact with specific aspects of your projects as they evolve. Hypothes.is is already used as a comment, annotation and conversation tool within various academic settings, for example to enable the collaborative annotation of James Brown’s book Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software (University of Michigan Press, 2015).

To structure the various commentaries – and thus the conversations – across the disrupted JMP projects, we will be using tags or keywords to categorise the comments, questions and/or replies. We will create a live feed on the disrupted JMP platform that collects all the responses around the papers together using the tag or keyword disruptedjournal. Based on the submissions received, we have also structured the conversations around specific themes or topics of conversation. These are Performative Publishing; Practice-based Methodologies, Processual Research; Debating Media Practice Publishing; Multimodal research; and Politics and Economics. These themes will make it easier for people to identify the projects that are of interest to them, and will enable us to structure the conversations around certain topics more clearly. The conversations around these themes will similarly be structured around specific tags, which can be filtered out of the larger live feed to enable people to follow the conversation around specific themes of interest.

In order for this set-up to work smoothly, you can find some more detailed information underneath about how to use hypothes.is, and how to set up an account. You can also find some more information here on how to add tags to your comments and about how we will be using these (specific) tags or keywords to structure the conversations around the projects/papers.

Getting started with hypothes.is

Before you start annotating with hypothes.is, you will need to create an account, which you can do here: https://hypothes.is/register. You will find that you can interact with webpages and documents using hypothes.is in a variety of ways, via a Chrome plugin, by adding some code to your own webpage or by using a bookmarklet. For more about these options, please see here: https://hypothes.is/

Once you are all set-up, you can start annotating/leaving comments. For some basic instructions on how the hypothes.is interface works please see here (https://hypothes.is/docs/help) and the screenshots underneath.

We have also collected a few videos that show you how to use the interface underneath. Make sure to make your comments related to this special issue public (see picture above) to enable others to see your comments and for them to go into the live feed. You are of course free to make additional private annotations wherever you see fit.

Tags

As said before we will be using tags to structure the content into live feeds (see here and here). Please see the slideshow underneath to familiarise yourself with the use of tags when commenting/annotating. For this special issue we will be using specific tags to structure the content. Please make sure that you use the tag disruptedjournal for every comment that you place that relates to this special issue. Next to this general tag we will ask you to add additional tags based on the theme you are contributing to or responding to. These tags are:

performativepublishing, practicemethods, processualresearch, mediapracticepublishing, multimodalresearch, politicseconomics

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So for example, if you are leaving a comment on a paper that deals with processual research, please make sure to add the tags disruptedjournal and processualresearch. This is a bit of additional work, but we hope this will become easier once we have all familiarised ourselves with this process (it remains very much an experiment for us too so please let us know if this is not working out for you).

If you have any more question related to this please use hypothes.is to the right to ask for questions or clarifications or alternatively use the regular comment section underneath this blog post.

Joint Clipper & DMLL Project Workshop: Coventry University 20th November

The Disrupted Journal Team — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:28:55 +0000

The Clipper project is developing a free and open source software toolkit to support researchers in all disciplines who work with online digital audio-visual media and we extend a warm invite to attend our upcoming free community consultation workshop on Friday the 20^th November at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab, Coventry University, it starts at 10:00. At the workshop we shall be reviewing the latest prototype and discussing the implications of tools like Clipper for creative practice, research data management and new publishing models.

To book your place please visit this web link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clipper-project-workshop-coventry-university-tickets-19278500514

Workshop Content and Format

10:00 Arrival, registration and tea / coffee

10:30 Introductions, project overview and aims

10:45 Demonstration of prototype system, initial feedback & discussion

11:15 Hands-on session, feedback (please bring laptop & use Chrome browser)

12:00 Discussion

12:30 – 1:30 lunch, discussions and networking

Clipper Toolkit Description (from our brochure)

Clipper enables researchers to create and share virtual-clips from online media without altering the original data files. Clipper enables you to mark the start and end of interesting events while playing audio or video data files through a standard web browser. You can add rich text annotations to each clip, and combine clips into playlists (cliplists). For the latest overview of the Clipper Toolkit and what it does please visit this page.

One of the aims of Clipper is to make online audio visual resources more accessible and to enable collaborative opportunities. The Clipper toolkit aims to make it as easy to cite, reference and quote online audio-visual media as it is currently for textual resources.

The choice of HTML for the native system data file format is starting to bring big benefits and we are still exploring the implications and opportunities connected with this decision – one of the advantages being that user can ‘own’ their clipper documents and place them where they like for reuse.

Call for Papers

The Disrupted Journal Team — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:52:11 +0000

Call for Creative Works and Papers

Although media practice as a field and community embraces a plurality of media, the materiality of its scholarly forms of production and communication remain predominantly text-based. How then, can a journal of media practice (JMP) extend from a speculative focus on what media practice as research could be, to an exploration of the alternative forms of communication and circulation it could enable?

This special issue— guest edited by the Centre for Disruptive Media and Disruptive Media Learning Lab — will experiment with how media practice, in rethinking research as practice, could also disrupt the way we mediate this research through various formal and informal scholarly forms (including the academic journal).

Three central questions will be posed:

How is media practice disruptive of and re-performing the way we do scholarly communication and education?

How can JMP reconfigure (the politics of) its own practice?

What should a disruptive ‘journal’ of media practice look / sound / feel like?

Topics of Conversation

The aim of this digital only, open access special issue is to put forward a number of provocations with respect to what a ‘journal of media practice’ should or could be. To provide an alternative to the standard journal article, the guest editors will structure this issue around a selection of conversations to emphasise the evolving and collaborative nature of research.

The format and length of the publications or works around which these conversations will be centred will be open to negotiation – they can be multimodal, text-based or hybrid; articles, blog posts or books. The conversations will then be able to openly evolve (from ‘drafts’ to ‘final versions’ and beyond) incorporating peer commentary and reviews from invited media practitioners and the audience at large.

We propose the following topics of conversation, but are also open to other suggestions:

Disrupting the journal
What could a journal of media practice be in a digital environment? What can we learn from best practices?

Alternative forms of assessment
What can we learn from open peer review experiments and alternative forms of assessment in education? Instead of a verdict, how can assessment be shaped around processes of revision?

Processual research
From iterative publications to evolving scholarship, in what ways can we better emphasise the processual and ongoing nature of scholarship?

Performative publishing
How do the media we use perform their content and vice versa? What is the agency of our media, and how are we entangled with the media we use?

Education
What can we learn from experiments in online pedagogy for the way we communicate our research findings?

Multimodality and Practice-based Research
How can we explore criticality with or via different media forms?

Politics and Economics
What kind of inhibitions do the politics and economics of publishing pose to a disruptive media journal? How can alternative forms of publishing form the starting point for new politics and new social and economic relations?

JMP Editors Note

Longer term, the editors are interested in further exploring the legacy of this special edition in terms of a replacement for JMP Screenworks which will no longer be formally supported by JMP, but which will be an archive space for the period it has run.

Expressions of interest / outlines of proposed submissions to guest editors Jonathan Shaw and Janneke Adema by December 11^th 2015 at cfp@dmll.org.uk

Following initial discussions, submissions will be required by the end of February 2016. These will then be developed and explored as online conversations around the experimental platform during March and April 2016.

This experimental issue of JMP will be hosted at https://disruptedjournal.postdigitalcultures.org/