a scholarly life online - george veletsianos #edenrw9
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Keynote at the European Distance and E-Learning Network Research WorkshopOldenburg, October 2016
A Scholarly Life Online
George Veletsianos, PhDCanada Research Chair & Associate Professor
Royal Roads UniversityVictoria, BC
Canada
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• Academic-specific technologies
• Repurposed technologies
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Conceptual framework:Networked Scholarship
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Networked Scholarship, or Networked Participatory Scholarship:
“scholars’ use of participatory technologies and online social networks to share, reflect upon, critique, improve, validate, and further their scholarship” (Veletsianos & Kimmons, 2012)
Conceptual framework:Networked Scholarship
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Open/Social/Digital Scholarship
These focus on a fragment of scholars' online activities and have ignored other aspects of online presence.
White & Le Cornu (2011):Digital
Residents & Visitors
Conceptual framework:Networked Scholarship
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Post draft papers
Author open textbooks
Share Syllabi + Activities
Live streamingLive-Blogging
Collaborative authoring
Debates + commentary
Open teachingPublic P&T materials
The doctoral journey (e.g., #PhDChat)
Crowdsourcing
Share information
Veletsianos (2012, 2013)
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What challenges do faculty face on social media?
• Social media activities are rife with tensions, dilemmas, and conundrums.– Time demands – Surveillance ( High-profile cases e.g., Salaita,
Kansas Board of regents) – Maintaining appropriate and meaningful connections – Gender and socioeconomic issues– Establishing personal-professional boundaries
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What challenges do faculty face on social media?
• Social media activities are rife with tensions, dilemmas, and conundrums.
“I made it [Facebook] this hybrid space ... and sometimes it's really annoying. … I keep thinking I should be writing or looking at data, [but instead I am managing the different groups of people that are my Facebook friends] … I think that I created the conundrum that I live in now.”
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What is the conundrum around expressing academic identity online?
Acceptable Identity Fragments = how academics express themselves online (Kimmons & Veletsianos, 2015)
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Significant. Because we imagine our audiences to be complex
Imagined audiences: “mental conceptualization of the people with whom we are communicating”(Litt, 2012)
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Disclosures might have deeper roots
• Disclosures might be tactical– Political– Encourage reflection
(Veletsianos & Stewart, 2016)
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So, when institutions view social media with a functional perspective…
• They become part of an “audit culture” and “a complex data assemblage that confronts the individual academic” (Burrows, 2012)
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What do Twitter metrics mean? Can they be used to evaluate a scholars’ reach or impact?
We have to think critically about social media metrics & their meaning
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(R2 = .83, F[4,459] = 571.42, p < .001).
From Veletsianos & Kimmons (2016)
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To close…
In creating policies that govern online participation, recognize that scholars participating online are not merely disembodied personas aiming to amass citations and followers and that social media metrics may not mean what you think they mean.
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Thank you!
Research available at: http://www.veletsianos/publications
This presentation: www.slideshare.com/veletsianos
Contact: [email protected]@veletsianos on Twitter