Participation Literacy

Peter Giger

• Division of Technoscience Studies
• School of Technoculture,
  Humanities and Planning
• Librarian at the University Library
• Blekinge Institute of Technology

email: forename.surname@bth.se

This web project is a hybrid between a research blog and a personal academic publishing environment. It is a research 2.0 project as discussed in the Research 2.0 section of my Licentiate Thesis. The web site is administrated and owned by me and is not a part of the web site of Blekinge Institute of Techology. I am both a Librarian at the University Library and a graduate student at Technoscience Studies. This hybridity is important for all situations I participate in.

Academic Articles
If an article is reviewed of at least one of my colleagues, regarding content and language, I call it an academic article. The article is broken down in sections for easy reading and commenting, just like chapters in an ordinary research article. The article sections are combined together in an Academic Theme. This is stated as a category. My licentiate thesis is, for example, categorized like this: Academic Theme - Licentiate Thesis 2006. Thus you can be sure the article you are reading can be regarded as academic, and you can also see what context it belongs to.

The right column will always hold the table of contents of the article. At this moment I only have one academic theme, but later I will write a javascript hiding all TOC but one - Meta-TOC, kind of.

The credibility of the academic articles on this site works in conjunction with the associated pdf-file. The pdf-file has proper references for web sources. Every web reference has a cache number, witch means I will send you the original source if you ask for it. You can find the reference page in the top menu.

Blog Articles
Blog articles are news, quick thoughts and other kind of texts you would not call academic. I am not a native English speaker, and thus my English in these texts might not be perfect. I do not really care; I think communication is more than looks. This has a lot to do with Participation Literacy.