Digital Research

This is an allegorical image. Against a beige background is the front of a building with pillars in slightly darker beige. Layered on top is a white image of the head, elongated neck, shoulders and upper torso of a person. The head is turned to the right with the outline of hair in a bun. Green, plant-like shapes grow behind the torso, in front of the building. A red heart-shaped heart is superimposed on the chest area of the torso. Three lines extend from the heart each connected to a beige rectangle. The rectangle on the left is almost square, with an icon of an open book in black. On the top right is a rectangle with a line graph with a single line going down and up. Middle right is a rectangle with black musical notes beginning with a treble clef. Five stylized human figures are in the foreground. Moving left to right, a Black woman with wavy black hair in a light pink sweater and dark pants with a red briefcase walks toward the heart. Sitting on the shoulder of the torso is a white woman with brown hair in a light brown top and brown pants reading a red book. There is a white man with brown hair in a white lab coat holding a clipboard in front of the heart. To his right is an Asian woman with shoulder length black hair with a stethoscope in a light brown top and dark brown pants listening to the heart. On the right is a Black man in a pink shirt and light brown pants and a dark brown pork pie hat. He has a conductor's baton and is pointing to the musical notes.

Education

Wholeness in a Torn World

To reweave ourselves into community, reconnect ourselves with our purpose, and realign university values with institutional practice, we need to create structures and cultivate habits that reinforce the work that gives our personal and institutional…

Christopher LongFebruary 5, 2023

Two people sit in gray chairs with dark wooden legs on a small stage with wooden floors. There is a round coffee table made of dark and light wood between them on which is a microphone with a pop filter, papers to which the speakers are referring, and two bottles of water. Amy DeRogatis is on the left, speaking and smiling slightly as she looks down at her paper and talks into the microphone. On the right is Isaac Weiner, grinning broadly as if laughing. On the left of the stage is a fake white tree with cotton "snow" underneath and white lights on the branches. The wall behind the stage is white, broken up with gray/blue squares of fabric designed to dampen the sound. The microphone is attached by a wire that goes to an amplifier that is just visible on the right, behind Isaac. There is a blue light coming out of the bottom of the amplifier.

Dean The Administrative Life The Long Road

What Does Religion Sound Like?

This question, What does religion sound like?, inspired the creation of a remarkable collaborative project on Religious Sounds between Amy Derogatis of Michigan State University and Isaac Weiner at The Ohio State University. Yesterday, I…

Christopher LongJanuary 28, 2023

Presentation: Interactive Presentation: Other Presentations The Graduate Experience Vita

Cultivating an Online Scholarly Presence

Graduate students are often confronted with conflicting advice about how much of their academic work they should share publicly online. Although there are good reasons to consider carefully what one shares and how, graduate students…

Christopher LongMarch 27, 2014

Digital Research Digital Scholarship The Long Road

Public Writing

This experiment in academic public writing began with a compliment. In a Twitter conversation with @ProfessMoravec, I came across her Rationale for Academic Writing in Public in which she discusses how and why she has…

Christopher LongFebruary 20, 2014

Digital Research The Long Road

The Digital Research Circle Completed

In April 2010, I began blogging about closing the digital research circle. The iPad had just been released and I had just moved from Endnote to Zotero to take advantage of its ability to share…

Christopher LongAugust 8, 2013

Digital Research The Long Road

Research Cycle Returns to Zotero

Even as I press to finish an article on dogs and wolves in Plato's Republic for a volume entitled "Plato's Animals" edited by Michael Naas, it is worth returning for a moment to our ongoing…

Christopher LongDecember 31, 2012

Digital Research The Long Road

Sente, Mendeley, Zotero: Too Many Sharp Tools

As spring rolls into summer, it is time for another appraisal of my digital research ecosystem. For a brief history of my reflections on digital scholarly research, I invite you to take a ride on…

Christopher LongJune 5, 2012

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

New Cultures of Scholarship

Chris and Emma STATE COLLEGE, PA - In my keynote address at the inaugural Liberal Arts Scholarship and Technology Summit, I discuss how the transition from print literacy to digital literacy is transforming the nature…

Christopher LongAugust 14, 2011

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Collaborative Research in Philosophy

Today in the Foster Auditorium of the Pattee/Paterno Library, my undergraduate research assistant, Lisa Lotito, and I gave a presentation about the workflow we use in doing philosophical research. I have written in some detail…

Christopher LongJuly 21, 2011

Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Summer Research in Digital

This summer John Dolan, Director of Digital Media and Pedagogy, and I are heading up a summer digital research project in the College of the Liberal Arts. For a description of the project, check out…

Christopher LongMay 19, 2011

Academic Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Evolving Digital Research Ecosystem

Final Edits Originally uploaded by cplong11 In the months since my last posts on using Mendeley, Zotero and the iPad for academic research, my experience has been more fully informed by practice. This fall I was…

Christopher LongDecember 27, 2010

Digital Research Education Technology The Long Road

Mendeley on the iPhone

Mendeley on the iPhone Originally uploaded by cplong11 I am happy to report that Mendeley has developed an iPhone app that brings us a step closer to the digital research model I hope to implement…

Christopher LongJuly 20, 2010

Academic Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Integrating Mendeley into the Research Circle

It seems that my quest to close the digital research circle has been joined by a few fellow researchers. The idea is compelling and would not only save both time and paper, but would offer new…

Christopher LongJune 3, 2010

Academic Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Zotero, the iPad and Summer Research

Last month in a post about closing the digital research circle, I wrote about using the iPad to read, take notes on pdf files and integrate those files into a bibliography program. We are still…

Christopher LongMay 21, 2010

Academic Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Closing the Digital Research Circle

I have been looking for a way to close the circle of my digital academic research. The idea is to do rigorous philosophical research without paper, taking full advantage of cloud computing, the syncing of…

Christopher LongApril 15, 2010

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