Digital Technology

Webinar: iGen: Decoding the Learning Code of Generation Z
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March 29, 2024

Webinar: iGen: Decoding the Learning Code of Generation Z

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A Geographical Approach for Collaboration and Connection?
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May 4, 2023

A Geographical Approach for Collaboration and Connection?

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How Digital Information Transforms Project Delivery Models
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March 23, 2023

How Digital Information Transforms Project Delivery Models

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An Unabridged View of Digital in the Built Environment
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May 13, 2022

An Unabridged View of Digital in the Built Environment

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t’s Academic Book Week 2020! The theme this year is the environment, and makers, providers and readers of academic books will be celebrating them as vehicles for ground-breaking ideas. To kick off the week, David Beer, author of ‘The Data Gaze,’ discusses the notion of ‘digital atrophy’ and consumer capitalism within the technological and social environment we inhabit.

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Computational Social Science: A New Way of Working and Thinking

Computational Social Science: A New Way of Working and Thinking

The ability to work with digital research methods and data analysis is opening up a whole new world of research potential for social scientists. No one knows this better than Digital Sociologist Dr. James Allen-Robertson from the University of Essex. For him, these new techniques have enabled multiple interdisciplinary research collaborations and a whole new world of funding and professional opportunities.

Here, James tells us how computational social science has given him and his research output a new lease of life.

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Gina Neff on Smart Devices

Gina Neff on Smart Devices

Gina Neff doesn’t approach smart devices as a Luddite or even that much of an alarmist; she bought first-generation Fitbit when they were brand new and virtually unknown (all of five years ago!). She approaches them as a sociologist, “looking at the practices of people who use digital devices to monitor, map and measure different aspects of their life.”

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Technology: What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Stronger

Technology: What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Stronger

Gavin Moodie has looked at how printing first challenged then changed–for the better–higher education. Here he suggests more modern forms of technological advancement likely will result in the same.

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Googling ‘Reference Work’ in the Age of Wikipedia

Googling ‘Reference Work’ in the Age of Wikipedia

These aren’t the best of times for reference librarians, but the challenges leave only one option — to get with the times.

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Is Wikipedia Really Such a Bad Research Tool for Students?

Is Wikipedia Really Such a Bad Research Tool for Students?

rather than damning Wikipedia and Google for their imperfections, Amy Antonio argues we both embrace them and teach students how to validate the information they find there.

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How Useful are E-Readers for Academic Reading, Really?

How Useful are E-Readers for Academic Reading, Really?

E-readers are now commonplace. But how useful are e-readers as a replacement for printed academic books and journal articles?

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