social media, digital identity & me
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social media, digital identity & me
Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin Digital Champions, NUIG, 18 Feb 2016
workshop for students as part of Digital Champions
student-staff partnership
@DigiChampsNUIG @EXPLOREnuigsu
@nuigalway
4 #hashtags
#ge16 #hometovote #refugees #digilit
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each time I facilitate this
workshop I begin with a few
screenshots of tweets with
different hashtags (e.g. political,
civic, social, research) – always
both topical (“today”) & relevant
for the audience. These few
tweets can then be used as
examples of many of the ideas
discussed later in the
presentation.
Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 Roo Reynolds
Networked Publics
danah [email protected]
space constructed through
networked technologies
the imagined collective which emerges
(people + tech + practice)
Participatory Culture:low barriers to
artistic expression & civic engagement
strong support for creating & sharing
informal mentorship
members believe their contributions matter
social connection
Henry [email protected]
multimodalmultimedia ✓ voice / choicenetworked ✓ topic / contentsocial ✓ genre / tonepurposeful ✓ space / placecollaborative ✓ time / durationagentic
Participatory Cultureliteracy practices
“I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.”
@Joi Ito (2011)
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networkededucators
networkedstudents
Physical Spaces
Bounded Online Spaces
Open Online Spaces
Higher Education
Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Catherine Cronin, built on original Networked Teacher image by Alec Couros
so… what inhibits you? what inhibits us?
social academic /professional
private public
WHO YOU SHARE with
context collapse
WHO YOU SHARE as
digital identity
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As studies become more contextualised it seems that the real lesson of online identity is not that it transforms identity but that it makes us more aware that offline identity was already more multiple, culturally contingent and contextual than we had appreciated.
Danny Miller (2013) @dannyanth
Photo by George Miller (used with permission)
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digital dualism
physical world digital world ‘REAL’ ‘VIRTUAL’?
...our reality is both technological and organic, both digital and physical, all at once. We are not crossing in and out of separate digital and physical realities, a la The Matrix, but instead live in one reality, one that is augmented by atoms and bits.
Nathan Jurgenson (2011)@nathanjurgenson
Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality
It is wrong to say “IRL” to mean offline: Facebook is real life.
Nathan Jurgenson (2012)The IRL Fetish
so… what to do?
social academic /professional
private public
some ideas for discussion…
Take ownership of your digital identity; think about your online hub(s).
Consider privacy settings & openness; balance between these will vary depending on your aims and the tool you use.
When new to any tool or online space: first observe, listen & learn, then engage in conversations & contribute.
about.me/catherinecronin
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Take ownership of your digital identity; think about your online hub(s).
Consider privacy settings & openness; balance between these will vary depending on your aims and the tool you use.
When new to any tool or online space: first observe, listen & learn, then engage in conversations & contribute.
Enjoy!
Thank you!Catherine Cronin
@catherinecroninslideshare.net/cicronin
about.me/catherinecronin
Referencesboyd, danah (2010) Social network sites as networked publics: Affordances, dynamics, and implications, In Papacharissi, Z. (ed.), Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites, Routledge, New York.
Ito, Joi (2011, December 5) In an open-source society, innovating by the seat of our pants. The New York Times. Jenkins, Henry (2006) Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago.
Jurgenson, Nathan (2011) Digital dualism versus augmented reality. Cyborgology.
Jurgenson, Nathan (2012) The IRL Fetish. The New Inquiry.
Stewart, Bonnie (2015) Open to influence: What counts as academic influence in scholarly networked Twitter participation. Learning, Media and Technology 40(3), pp 1-23.
Stewart, Bonnie (2016) Academic Twitter: The intersection of orality and literacy in scholarship? Slideshare.