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What is E-Awareness

Chapter 26
Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies
a part of digital literacy, we think of e-awareness as the most conceptual and strategic of digital skills. It can be defined as the ability to understand the real impact of the changes brought by the Information Society in one’s context. At another level, e-Awareness would also imply foreseeing and anticipating such changes, either to avoid or smooth their impact, or to benefit from them by adapting one’s behaviour
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The Personal Research Portal
Ismael Peña-López (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-208-4.ch026
Abstract
The author of this chapter proposes the concept of the Personal Research Portal (PRP) – a mesh of social software applications to manage knowledge acquisition and diffusion – as a means to create a digital identity for the researcher, an online public notebook and personal repository, and a virtual network of colleagues working in the same field. Complementary to formal publishing or taking part in events, and based on the concept of the e-portfolio, the PRP is a knowledge management system that enhances reading, storing and creating at both the private and public levels. Relying heavily on Web 2.0 applications easy to use, freely available – the PRP automatically implies a public exposure and a digital presence that enables conversations and network weaving without time and space boundaries.
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