Digital Tools can Amplify Community Voice and Increase their Social Capital

What is it about?

Using the case study of a university blog, this paper examines the ways that digital tools and social media accounts can amplify community ideas and community voices. The paper pushes the scholarly publication discussion beyond the idea that community should have access to academic publishing, and towards a paradigm where voices are amplified and knowledge are co-produced.

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Why is it important?

Too often, universities and the knowledge produced in them are siloed from the communities. That keeps critical knowledge out of our profession. This paper examines how social media and digital tools such as blogs provide opportunities for community members to link to new communities, promote their ideas, and co-produce knowledge in unlikely places.