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SLOAN-C Emerging Technologies Conference, Dallas, TX, April 2014
Networks of Care and Conflict: Academics’ Online Participation
George Veletsianos, PhD Canada Research Chair
Associate Professor School of Education and Technology
@veletsianos #et4online
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Two competing narratives of the web
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The web as a monstrous place
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The web as a wondrous place
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A continuum
I want to talk about what happens at the middle
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Questions guiding my research
• How do academics use emerging technologies (in particular, social media/networks)?
• How is digital and open scholarship enacted?
• What do current scholarly practices look like?
• What is the experience like?
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Digital Scholarship, Open Scholarship, Social Scholarship
– Digital Scholarship – Martin Weller
– Social Scholarship – Gideon Burton – Christine Greenhow
– Networked Participatory Scholarship:
the “emergent practice of scholars’ use of participatory technologies and online social networks to share, reflect upon, critique, improve, validate, and further their scholarship” (Veletsianos & Kimmons, 2012, p. 768).
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“Educational Technology,” as a field is plagued with editorials and perspectives
Need to move from “state-of-the-art” to “state-of-the-actual” (Selwyn, 2011)
Faith-based field?
Why you should care #1
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The future of Higher Education is currently being designed.
Solutions are frequently not based on evidence.
Empirical research will help us improve designs.
Why you should care #2
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a worldwide economic downturn
globalization and competition
changing demographics
curtailment of public funding
pressures for accountability
impact of emerging technologies
(Morrison, 2003; Schwier, 2012; Siemens & Matheos, 2010; Spanier, 2010).
purpose of education - Employment?
Rebirth of edtech
Especially important at a time of pressures
Socio-political, cultural, and
economic pressures
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Social media use is a professional issue 1/2
How do instructors use social media to foster engagement?
How can we use online social networks to expand the diversity of a classroom?
In what ways can researchers use social media to disseminate their scholarship?
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Social media use goes beyond professional issues 2/2
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Social media use goes beyond professional issues 2/2
What do we do when we are online and why? e.g., Visitors vs. Residents (White & LeCornu, 2011)
How does our professional identity impact our participation and how does our participation impact our professional identity?
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In-between the extremes, are stories of people.
Stories of academia.
Stories that explain who we are as scholars, educators, and people.
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What follows is a summary of two themes from 3+ years of qualitative
and ethnographic studies
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Theme #1
Networks of Conflict
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Theme #2
Networks of Care and Vulnerability
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Networks of care & vulnerability
Social media and online social networks function as places where
(some) academics express and experience care.
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• Caring for one another online takes many forms
Networks of care & vulnerability
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Identity
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Digital Identity
We create it Intentional web presence
Lowenthal & Dunlap (2012)
It is created and/or structured for us Acceptable Identity Fragments (Kimmons
& Veletsianos, 2014)
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• Personal-professional continuum. • “Sanitized” participation. • Pressures to participate • Other issues?
Discussion
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Thank you
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