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Social Media & Society, Toronto, ON, September 2014
Networked Participatory Scholarship: Empirical perspectives on scholars use of social media
George Veletsianos, Associate Professor,
Canada Research Chair, Royal Roads University,
@veletsianos
Networks of knowledge creation & dissemination
Networks of tension & conflict Networks of care & vulnerability Fragmented networks Transparent networks
Network characteristics
• Navigating personal-professional boundaries (e.g., friending)
• Navigating copyright restrictions (e.g., Elsevier
takedown notices, #icanhazpdf, dropbox sharing)
• Lack of frameworks to evaluate legitimacy or quality of networked/digital activities & pressure to engage in activities traditionally valued by academia
• Institutional surveillance (e.g., Salaita, Kansas Board of Regents policy)
Tension & conflict
“I made it [Facebook] this hybrid space ... and sometimes it's really annoying. … I keep thinking I should be writing or looking at data, and I'm doing this! … I think that I created the conundrum that I live in now.”
Tension & conflict
• Navigating personal-professional boundaries (e.g., friending)
• Navigating copyright restrictions (e.g., Elsevier
takedown notices, #icanhazpdf, dropbox sharing)
• Lack of frameworks to evaluate legitimacy or quality of networked/digital activities & pressure to engage in activities traditionally valued by academia
• Institutional surveillance (e.g., Salaita, Kansas Board of Regents policy)
Tension & conflict
• Navigating personal-professional boundaries (e.g., friending)
• Navigating copyright restrictions (e.g., Elsevier
takedown notices, #icanhazpdf, dropbox sharing)
• Lack of frameworks to evaluate legitimacy or quality of networked/digital activities & pressure to engage in activities traditionally valued by academia
• Institutional surveillance (e.g., Salaita, Kansas Board of Regents policy)
Tension & conflict
• Navigating personal-professional boundaries (e.g., friending)
• Navigating copyright restrictions (e.g., Elsevier
takedown notices, #icanhazpdf, dropbox sharing)
• Lack of frameworks to evaluate legitimacy or quality of networked/digital activities & pressure to engage in activities traditionally valued by academia
• Institutional surveillance (e.g., Salaita, Kansas Board of Regents policy)
Tension & conflict
Social media functions as a place where (some) academics make themselves
vulnerable and where they express and experience care.
Networks of care & vulnerability
• Caring for one another online takes many forms – Advising students at an institution different than
their own – Sharing personal struggles – Taking a stand and speaking out about
injustices – Commiserating about experiences (e.g.,
doctoral work)
Networks of care & vulnerability
“Since she passed away, I’ve wondered what I could have said differently to her during our last call. I told her that I loved her, that I missed her very much, and that I would see her very soon.”
Networks of care & vulnerability
Fragmented identity Acceptable Identity Fragments theory (Kimmons & Veletsianos, 2014).
Fragmented participation (e.g., dispersed across networks)
Fragmented networks
They need to be able to • talk about social media/networks • understand the relationship between social
media and scholarship • criticize social media/networks
What do scholars need to know?
Problem: lack of curricula to prepare students and academics for networked scholarship
Networked Scholars open online course (October, 2014) - #scholar14https://learn.canvas.net/courses/413 Networked Scholars book (Spring, 2015)
What do scholars need to know?
Related work Available at http://tinyurl.com/nps-papers
Kimmons, R., and Veletsianos, G. (2014). The fragmented educator 2.0: Social networking sites,
acceptable identity fragments, and the identity constellation. Computers & Education Veletsianos, G. (2013). Open Practices and Identity: Evidence from Researchers and Educators’ Social
Media Participation. British Journal of Educational Technology, 44(3), 639-651.
Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2013). Scholars and Faculty Members Lived Experiences in Online Social Networks. The Internet and Higher Education,16(1), 43-50.
Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Assumptions and Challenges of Open Scholarship. The
International Review Of Research In Open And Distance Learning,13(4), 166-189 Veletsianos, G. (2012). Higher Education Scholars’ Participation and Practices on Twitter. Journal of
Computer Assisted Learning, 28(4), 336-349. Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Networked Participatory Scholarship: Emergent Techno-Cultural
Pressures Toward Open and Digital Scholarship in Online Networks. Computers & Education, 58(2), 766-774.
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