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@caitlinduffy49 Thanks! That was exactly it. Now I just need to find an image that works in the space, and how to get the headline to go across it 🙂
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So, I finally got round to completing this challenge, several weeks overdue… I’ve called it Materialist Media Ecology, and I’m thinking of it more or less as a place for me to assemble and share research, ideas, and projects (by others rather than myself, for the moment) that may be of use to my students and me, first and foremost, but also to anyone else who is interested in approaching media from an environmental/ecological/materialist perspective.
https://materialistmediaecology.hcommons-staging.org
The bare bones are up, and I’ll have to wait to another day to figure out how to get a picture to go across the screen like it does in the flipping theme template (aargh!).
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@caitlinduffy49: Excellent! That gives me yet another option to play with for this challenge.
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I am so looking forward to this challenge, but I still can’t decide what kind of site to create. Will wait a bit and see what other people come up with in the meantime.
@sarastarbucksantos : Yours is looking really good!
@caitlinduffy49 : Is there anyway one might revive an already  existing (and very old…) WordPress site by incorporating or importing into a HumCommons site? -
@caitlinduffy49 : Thanks for alerting us to SHERPA/RoMEO! I think this will help me resolve the concerns I had over depositing my own work in CORE.
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@mklopez, I am really glad you share your doubts about the value of the Altmetric tools here. I did install the Altmetric It plug-in, and tried it out briefly, but was mainly disappointed by the limited places in which it seems to be looking for mentions. Also surprised to find, when I tried it on somebody else’s work (which I consider well-known in my field) that the numbers were underwhelming.
Then, after reading your post I started thinking about what these kinds of tools are doing to us, as opposed to for us (to paraphrase Sherry Turkle). Do academics really need another metric against which to (fear they will) pull up short? Another version of “likes” to go with the ones on Facebook, Twitter, Insta, etc.? The reason I shut down my account with Academia.edu and joined HumCommons was to get away from the pernicious data-mongering of the “Facebook for professors”, so no badge for me, thanks.
I get that Altmetric is an alternative to the citation counting of Google Scholars and similar, and I absolutely see the value of discovering who is reading  (as opposed to citing) your work or work that you are reading yourself, in the way @sarastarbucksantos describes. But such tools are nevertheless another contribution to the general metrification of scholarship, which I think is unhelpful, to say the least.
<span class=”handle-sign”>@</span>caitlinduffy49: Apologies if voicing this kind of grumpy-trousers sentiment is against the spirit of summer camp! I just think that metrics are becoming disproportionately valued for their own sake in the humanities, adding in particular to the already considerable burden of non-tenured academics (and I can take the risk of saying that, because I have tenure myself).
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I have previously found CORE useful for syllabus inspiration, and I’ve also found a few research articles of interest. This challenge prompted me to have another root around, and I’ve just downloaded two new articles on issues of digitisation that look highly relevant to the book project I’m working on. As for uploading material of my own, I still haven’t managed to work out what to share, and what rights clearance might be needed.
On an unrelated note, the news about the Neoliberal Fiction group posted to an earlier challenge in summer camp prompted me to encourage another colleague to join Humanities Commons, so I hope that “contribution” makes up a little bit for my failings in fulfilling this one…
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I’ve started following three more people, and joined one more group. I am pondering whether to start a new discussion topic in one of the groups or reply to an existing one, but haven’t decided yet. None of the groups I’ve found as yet have an enormous amount of recent activity, so I’m not sure which would be the best option for the purposes of the challenge. But at least I have now posted a discussion reply to each of the two HC Summer Camp challenges so far 🙂
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I’ve tweaked my “About” section a little bit to give it more of a human face (or at least tone), and added some upcoming events. I also added an interest and changed by cover image to something more identifiably “archival”. I may not have time to do more for this particular challenge by 9 June, but look forward to the next one!
Here I am:Â https://hcommons-staging.org/members/ninalager/
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