reputation, identity, & influence in scholarly networks
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Reputation, identity, & influence
in scholarly networks
Bonnie Stewart University of Prince Edward Island
Networked Learning Conference 2014
Premise:
Online networks enable different forms of identity, legitimacy,and belonging
than institutions do
Networks Require Literacies + ACADEMICS
Networks & institutions are both reputational economies
networked scholarly practices
institutional scholarly practices
Those within the academy become very skilled at judging the stuff of reputations. Where has the person’s work been published,
what claims of priority in discovery have they established, how often have they been
cited, how and where reviewed, what prizes won, what institutional ties earned, what
organizations led?
(Willinsky, 2010, p. 297).
Networked Reputations
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Academic Networked Publics
• Overlapping global networks • Always accessible
• Visible, traceable, searchable identities • Different audiences all in plain sight
My Research
• Ethnography • 14 (13) participants, 8 exemplars
• 3 months of participant observation on Twitter & blogs • 10 interviews
Literacies for understanding academic networked publics
Institutions Networks product-focused process-focused mastery participation bounded by time/space always accessible hierarchical ties peer-to-peer ties plagiarism crowdsourcing influence in role influence in reputation audience = teacher audience = world
Dissemination Advantage
Community
Connection
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Access to the Conversation
Speaking from the Margins
Speaking Back to Academia
Visioning Beyond Academia
Speaking Back to Media/Culture
Liability & Constraint
Positioning Fatigue
