Reputation, Identity, & Influence in Scholarly Networks

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

Thank you. J

@bonstewart [email protected]