When Worlds Collide: Merging Face-to-face and Virtual Academic Conferences

Bauman, Marcy Lassota; Hunt, Russell A.; Crump, Eric

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-1482-6_17

Cited by 2 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Each breakout group had a notetaker whose job it was to post the group's responses to these questions directly onto the conference blog, so that they could feed into the subsequent panel sessions. This has many similarities to the conference organisation used by Bauman et al (1996), where the audience response was captured using a technique known as 'inkshedding'. 3 Experimentation at the Colston event included projecting both the blog and the IRC on large screens around the main auditorium during the symposium, including during presentations.…”

Section: Studying the Colston Symposiummentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Technology may be facilitating a change for conference events from largely one-to-many ephemeral broadcasts to exchanges with increasing interaction between speaker and audience, and between participants both local and remote either in space or time. In many ways, this shift was anticipated by Bauman et al (1996), who note that 'computers enable us to challenge the information-delivery model that prevails at most academic conferences'. However, the conferences at which these technologies have been most in evidence to date have been those directly concerned with the technologies themselves, such as the World Wide Web and Blogtalk conferences (Shabajee 2003).…”

Section: The Introduction Of Communications Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Conferences as learning communities: some early lessons in using ‘back‐channel’ technologies at an academic conference – distributed intelligence or divided attention?

Jacobs

McFarlane

2005

Computer Assisted Learning

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Most, if not all, researchers attend conferences as a part of their practice, and yet it is an under-researched activity. Little attention has been paid either to developing a theoretically informed understanding of conference practice as knowledge building, or to assessing the extent to which conferences are successful. This paper addresses these issues in the context of a small empirical study of the introduction of mobile, interactive ('back-channel') technologies into a conference setting. Science studies and learning theories literatures are used to develop an eight-point statement describing the aims of an idealised conference. This is then used as a framework through which to make sense of what happened when 'back-channel' technologies such as internet relay chat (IRC) and blogging were introduced into the 2004 Colston Symposium 'The Evolution of Learning and Web Technologies: Survival of the Fittest?'. Focusing on sequential issues and the conference as a forum for knowledge building, the analysis shows that conference order is disrupted by the introduction of the back-channel technologies. Nevertheless, other pressures on academic and professional practice (the governance agenda, calls for greater collaboration and a more consensual approach, and so on) suggest that the potential of the new technologies to help open up the black box of scientific and professional practice will be seen as increasingly important. If these tools are to be used effectively in the future, conferences will need to be supported by new skills and practices.

show abstract

Section: Studying the Colston Symposiummentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Introduction Of Communications Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%