{"id":22887,"date":"2017-05-15T14:51:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T18:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=22887"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:42:04","slug":"groundbreaking-twitter-conference-public-archeology-led-shawn-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2017\/groundbreaking-twitter-conference-public-archeology-led-shawn-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Shawn Graham Participates in Groundbreaking Public Archeology Twitter Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Professor Shawn Graham Participates in Groundbreaking Public Archeology Twitter Conference\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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This spring, Twitter hosted the first-ever global conference in Public Archeology<\/a>. The social media conference featured fifty presenters from seven different countries over the course of a single day. The resonance of this unique venture was significant, reaching people worldwide through tweeted images, video clips, and so on, to convey arguments concerning the discipline of public and digital archaeology. All this and no one had to pay for flights or entry fees!  Specific topics broached included, photogrammetry, museums, looting, public engagement, art, politics all using the hashtag #PATC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the forefront of this groundbreaking academic occasion was Department of History\u2019s own Professor Shawn Graham<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham, who is a trained in Roman archaeology but has evolved into an internationally celebrated digital archaeologist and digital humanist, was one of two keynote speakers. Prof. Graham opened the conference by asking \u201ccan public archaeology be \u2018done\u2019 by a machine?\u201d  A question which successfully encouraged busy Twitter fingers for the rest of the day long event. Graham believes the conference was a great contemporary success. “For me, what was interesting to see was the richness of argument and exploration the conference goers were able to achieve within the constraints of the format. Then, when combined with the natural affordances of Twitter – threads, embedded videos, gifs, images, retweeting, tagged subjects \u2014 it was amazing to see these nuanced arguments filter into other conversations,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Being able to dip into the stream, and to follow sub-conversations at will, made #PATC<\/a> far more accessible than most physical conferences. If more academic work took place in the open like this, I think we might find a better public understanding, appreciation, and appetite, for the research we do.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brainchild of Lorna Richardson<\/a> from the Department of Sociology at Ume\u00e5 University<\/a> in northern Sweden,  the conference provided an online environment which allowed the almost 700 participants to follow along in real time as each speaker gave 15 minute\/12 tweet presentations.  Attendees also had the option to revisit these talks through archived tweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ethan Watrall, of Michigan State University:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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#PATC<\/a> feels like a bit of a watershed event\u2026.and all thanks to the brilliance of @lornarichardson<\/a><\/p>

\u2014 Ethan Watrall (@captain_primate) April 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n