Jessie Daniels, PhD Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

ESS | Digital Sociology Mini-Conference19 March 2016

“Being a Scholar Now: Digital Ways of Knowing, Neoliberal

Logics”

Twitter: @JessieNYC

expansion of digital technologies

what is ‘digital’ & why does it matter?

changing scholarship

peer-review is changing

publishing is changing

how we produce knowledge is changing

changing the scholar-activist

2004

Unique Visitors (each month): ~ 200,000Total Visitors (since 2007): 2.7 million

Individual Blog Posts: 1,790Comments from readers: 10,563Subscribers: 10,268Authors: 150

how we measure success

is changing

Open Access Increases Impact

‘altmetrics’metrics

sociopolitical context of academia

democratizationcommercialization

funding is changing

neoliberal regimes

View of Faculty

• “mobs in cyberspace”

• “holy warriors”

Scholar-Activism within the Academy

“What we are left with is the question of how a traditional university can be governed in an age of the vast but unaccountable Internet Empires like Twitter and Facebook.” ~ (DeMillo, 2015 p. 261)

pre-21st century, analog, closed, removed from the public sphere, monastic

“legacy scholarship”

21st century, digital, open, connected to the public sphere, worldly

“digital scholarship”

digitallegacy

often confused with

democratizationcommercialization

how to resist

commercialization

and further

democratization

Scholar-Activism within the Academy

Twitter: @JessieNYC

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