Jessie Daniels, PhD Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY ESS | Digital Sociology Mini-Conference 19 March 2016 “Being a Scholar Now: Digital Ways of Knowing, Neoliberal Logics”
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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