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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