Networked Participatory Scholarship: Empirical perspectives on scholars use of social media
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The document summarizes a study examining scholars' participation in online networks. It finds that such networks can be used for knowledge creation and dissemination through crowdsourcing and question-and-answer sessions, but they also present tensions regarding personal and professional boundaries, copyright issues, a lack of frameworks for evaluating digital scholarship, and institutional surveillance. Additionally, networks provide vulnerability and care as scholars share struggles and speak out, but networks can also fragment identities and participation. The study calls for developing resources to help scholars understand and navigate networked scholarship.
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Networked Participatory Scholarship: Empirical perspectives on scholars use of social media
- 1. Networked Participatory Scholarship: Empirical perspectives on scholars use of social media George Veletsianos, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair, Royal Roads University, @veletsianos Social Media & Society, Toronto, ON, September 2014
- 2. Objective To examine issues associated with scholars’ participation in online networked spaces.
- 3. What characterizes online scholarly networks?
- 4. Network characteristics Networks of knowledge creation & dissemination Networks of tension & conflict Networks of care & vulnerability Fragmented networks Transparent networks
- 5. Knowledge creation & dissemination • Crowdsourcing
- 6. Knowledge creation & dissemination • Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything)
- 7. Knowledge creation & dissemination • Blog debate and commentary
- 8. Tension & conflict • Navigating personal-professional boundaries (e.g., friending) • Navigating copyright restrictions (e.g., Elsevier takedown notices, #icanhazpdf, dropbox sharing) • Lack of frameworks to evaluate legitimacy or quality of networked/digital activities & pressure to engage in activities traditionally valued by academia • Institutional surveillance (e.g., Salaita, Kansas Board of Regents policy)
- 9. Tension & conflict “I made it [Facebook] this hybrid space ... and sometimes it's really annoying. … I keep thinking I should be writing or looking at data, and I'm doing this! … I think that I created the conundrum that I live in now.”
- 10. Tension & conflict • Navigating personal-professional boundaries (e.g., friending) • Navigating copyright restrictions (e.g., Elsevier takedown notices, #icanhazpdf, dropbox sharing) • Lack of frameworks to evaluate legitimacy or quality of networked/digital activities & pressure to engage in activities traditionally valued by academia • Institutional surveillance (e.g., Salaita, Kansas Board of Regents policy)
- 11. Tension & conflict • Navigating personal-professional boundaries (e.g., friending) • Navigating copyright restrictions (e.g., Elsevier takedown notices, #icanhazpdf, dropbox sharing) • Lack of frameworks to evaluate legitimacy or quality of networked/digital activities & pressure to engage in activities traditionally valued by academia • Institutional surveillance (e.g., Salaita, Kansas Board of Regents policy)
- 12. Tension & conflict • Navigating personal-professional boundaries (e.g., friending) • Navigating copyright restrictions (e.g., Elsevier takedown notices, #icanhazpdf, dropbox sharing) • Lack of frameworks to evaluate legitimacy or quality of networked/digital activities & pressure to engage in activities traditionally valued by academia • Institutional surveillance (e.g., Salaita, Kansas Board of Regents policy)
- 13. Networks of care & vulnerability Social media functions as a place where (some) academics make themselves vulnerable and where they express and experience care.
- 14. Networks of care & vulnerability • Caring for one another online takes many forms – Advising students at an institution different than their own – Sharing personal struggles – Taking a stand and speaking out about injustices – Commiserating about experiences (e.g., doctoral work)
- 15. Networks of care & vulnerability “Since she passed away, I’ve wondered what I could have said differently to her during our last call. I told her that I loved her, that I missed her very much, and that I would see her very soon.”
- 16. Fragmented networks Fragmented identity Acceptable Identity Fragments theory (Kimmons & Veletsianos, 2014). Fragmented participation (e.g., dispersed across networks)
- 19. What do scholars need to know? They need to be able to • talk about social media/networks • understand the relationship between social media and scholarship • criticize social media/networks
- 20. What do scholars need to know? Problem: lack of curricula to prepare students and academics for networked scholarship Networked Scholars open online course (October, 2014) - #scholar14 https://learn.canvas.net/courses/413 Networked Scholars book (Spring, 2015)
- 21. Related work Available at http://tinyurl.com/nps-papers Kimmons, R., and Veletsianos, G. (2014). The fragmented educator 2.0: Social networking sites, acceptable identity fragments, and the identity constellation. Computers & Education Veletsianos, G. (2013). Open Practices and Identity: Evidence from Researchers and Educators’ Social Media Participation. British Journal of Educational Technology, 44(3), 639-651. Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2013). Scholars and Faculty Members Lived Experiences in Online Social Networks. The Internet and Higher Education,16(1), 43-50. Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Assumptions and Challenges of Open Scholarship. The International Review Of Research In Open And Distance Learning,13(4), 166-189 Veletsianos, G. (2012). Higher Education Scholars’ Participation and Practices on Twitter. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 28(4), 336-349. Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Networked Participatory Scholarship: Emergent Techno-Cultural Pressures Toward Open and Digital Scholarship in Online Networks. Computers & Education, 58(2), 766-774.
- 22. Thank you! www.veletsianos.com @veletsianos on Twitter [email protected] This presentation: www.slideshare.com/ veletsianos