digital scholarship leveraging digital tools in the 21st century

Digital Scholarship:

Leveraging digital tools in the 21st century

Olaojo Aiyegbayo

Digital identities & personas

“The construction of online identities or personas is now an essential activity for the academic both from the perspective of university value and individual/career value.”

Barbour & Marshall (2012)

Digital footprints

Web 1.0

Web 2.0

Personal identities

Professional identities

Presentation

Reputation

Digital Identity

Costa & Torres 2011

5 types of academic digital personas

Barbour & Marshall (2011,2012)

The formal self – static self

The public self – networked self

The comprehensive self

The teaching self

The uncontainable self

Case Studies

Digital tools Frequency

Twitter 7

Blog 4

Linkedin 4

None 4

Personal website 2

Unilearn 2

Facebook 2

University repository 2

Mailing lists 2

Google+ 1

Google Scholar 1

Google Docs 1

Academia.edu 1

Discussion Questions

What are your reflections on Googling yourself?

Do you have a strategic or scattered approach towards managing your digital profile?

What are the challenges of building a professional digital identity?

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