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What does academic influence mean in an age of information abundance? This keynote delivered at the University of Edinburgh's #elearninged conference explores the idea of authenticity in the context of networked scholarship, and outlines ongoing research into why scholars use networks and how they read each others' reputations and credibility within them.
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Networked Scholars &…Authentic Influence?
Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart
University of Prince Edward Island Edinburgh 2014
networked scholarship
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influence = a complex equation
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networks & institutionsare both reputational economies
Those within the academy become very skilled at judging the stuff of
reputations. Where has the person’s work been published, what claims of
priority in discovery have they established, how often have they been
cited, how and where reviewed, what prizes won, what institutional ties earned,
what organizations led?
(Willinsky, 2010)
what does this mean?
NETWORKED SCHOLARSHIP • Introduction • Context: Information Abundance • Content: Influence & Networks • Conversation: Authenticity?
dissemination of knowledge
what people had for lunch
CHANGE IN
HIGHER ED
Premise:
Online networks enable different forms of identity, legitimacy, and belonging
than institutions do
information abundance
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backdrop: changing educational culture
knowledge scarcity
knowledge abundance
open systems
public, institutional values
market values
closed systems
increasing pressure to go online
channels of abundance = networks
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not about online/offline binaries
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networks require literacies + ACADEMICS
networks require time
so.what counts as influence in scholarly
networks?
public identity = price of admission
not about tech
networked identities = multiple & participatory
my research
• ethnography • 14 (13) participants, 8 exemplars
• 3 months of participant observation on Twitter & blogs • 10 interviews
dissemination advantage
but there’s more
community
connection
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access to the conversation
speaking from the margins
speaking back to academia
speaking back to media/culture
participating from afar
but.
liability & constraint
signal/noise filters
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positioning fatigue
immersion required
not fully immersed yet?
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literacies for understanding academic networked publics
Institutions Networks product-focused process-focused mastery participation bounded by time/space always accessible hierarchical ties peer-to-peer ties plagiarism crowdsourcing authority in role authority in reputation audience = institutional audience = world
authenticity?
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the word ‘authentic’ can be dangerous in
digital contexts
authenticity online?show your work
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is it just a numbers game?
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profiles = identity work
profiles = information
profiles = institutional ++
fluencies that matter
there are real, complex global conversations happening
keep learning to read them
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“who dares to teach must never cease
to learn.”
- John Cotton Dana, 1912