How to form an EMCA research network

If you want to create an open EMCA network around a topic, group, or other issue, you could follow this set of steps:

• Create a wiki bibliography page where the group can ongoingly curate a relevant literature list
  • You can achieve this by picking a unique 'tag' for your group and adding it to the keywords list of each of the items you want in your bibliography
  • For example, the AI/EMCA page: http://emcawiki.net/EMCA_%26_Artificial_Intelligence - lists all of the items tagged with "AI reference list" - though it might be best to choose a single word or 'hashtag'
• Establish public-facing announcements/social media (e.g. a twitter / FB page / IG account - though most #EMCA people are on twitter)
• Establish a form of asynchronous group communication (e.g. a discussion mailing list - a google group or University mailing list).
• Establish forms of synchronous online communication (e.g. regular Zoom meetings, a Slack channel on the EMCA Researchers Slack or something similar)
• Create a place to document e.g. group projects (panels, symposia, special issues, etc.), explanations for how to join, events etc.
  • This can be public (e.g. a wiki page - like the AI/EMCA network page - http://emcawiki.net/EMCA_AI_research_network)
  • It could also be a University website or a blog/Social media page