5th Bloomsbury Conference on Social Media & the Academy

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com>]

This is the fifth conference I have organized with the plan to 
bring publishers, librarians and scholars together to discuss 
topics of importance in scholarly communication in an academic 
environment. I am hoping that some on this list will be 
interested. For the programme and registration information see 
<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing/>

There are serious reductions for registration for those from 
academic addresses and some organisations representing our 
communities.

We are looking at the following questions among others.

How are social media being used by scholars in their research 
work flow?  Are the possibilities represented by social media 
wildly exaggerated?  How does informal communication using social 
media tools relate to the traditional publication process?

These are all questions considered in the 5th Bloomsbury 
Conference on Social Media and the Academy - Enabling and 
Enhancing Scholarly Communication, to be held at University 
College London, 30 June - 1 July 2011.

As has been the case with previous conferences in the series, the 
emphasis is on the context in which scholarship takes place, the 
evidence we have from research on the subject and what the 
scholars themselves are actually doing with what tools.  There 
will be of course room for speculation and predictions and part 
of a conference will be a consideration of the specific roles of 
publishers.  Time for interaction between speakers and audience 
is built in.

Anthony Watkinson