Scholarly Networks: Friend or Foe or Risky Fray? ALL OF THE ABOVE

Scholarly Networks: �Friend or Foe or Risky Fray?�

(Hint: ALL OF THE ABOVE)

Bonnie Stewart

University of Prince Edward Island, Canada�Digital Pedagogy Lab Cairo�

March 2016

…what now?

#DigPed =�refusing to act/teach/live as Dewey’s

“blind cogs & pinions”

#DigPed ≠ Tech

http://www.telecomtv.com/articles/tablets/retro-chic-apples-original-macintosh-reimagined-12100

#DigPed = (in part) �A Networked Approach

Where teaching & learning look like THIS.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/122135325@N06/15117809516/in/dateposted/

#DigPed = �Education for Knowledge Abundance

http://www.flickr.com/photos/silatix/9886617776/sizes/c

"For the first time in human history, two related propositions are true. One, it no longer

is possible to store within the human brain all of the information that a human needs.

Second, it no longer is necessary to store within the human brain all of the information that

humans need.

Education needs to be geared toward the handling of data rather than the accumulation

of data.”

- Berlo, 1975

Structure of Abundance = Networks

https://plus.google.com/+DaveGray/posts/CQRVeKEsUvF?pid=5751686447270321954&oid=117373186752666867801

Price of Admission = Public Identity

Wait. WHOA. ???

Digital Public Scholarly Networks:

!  Friend?

!  Foe?

!  Risky Fray?

YES.

Networks as Friend

Can open new conversations

#ed1to1

Can extend conversations, �resource-sharing, & visibility of work

https://www.flickr.com/photos/legends2k/3473962847

@hypothes_is!

Networks can open up new perspectives

Open new relationships

…And bring care.

Networks enable us to work together across distance.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ooohoooh/1350774613/

Why?�Networks are not just for consuming, �

but connecting.

Many-to-many communications

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/thumb/d/d8/Do_Not_Adjust_Your_Set.jpg/280px-Do_Not_Adjust_Your_Set.jpg

We become network nodes, forming

webs of visible (& invisible) connections

BUT.

Networks as Foe

“Deviant trajectories” – Costa (2014)https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Love_your_country,_not_government.jpg

Networks make connectedness + scale visible…

They enact & replicate power relations.

Networked platforms reduce identity to algorithms

Networks are becoming institutionalized

Networked identities = new forms of vulnerability

commodification + institutional indictments of deviance + re-inscription of societal biases

So. Networks as Risky Fray?

KINDA.

Callout Culture is not one single phenomenon

https://www.flickr.com/photos/seandavis/16528463225/

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/ conversation-smoosh-twitter-decay/412867/

“The network message from one person to another / others is very rapid and �

can in effect be in the present…textualized verbal exchange registers

psychologically as having the temporal immediacy of oral exchange.”

Ong, 1996

Speech-based expectations

Call Out Culture = Collapsed Publics

Print-based interpretations

So. Stay off the internet, & live happily

ever after? J

Callout culture & networked culture ARE part of the “apparatus” of our times. �

�We cannot develop �

students’ capacity to live in knowledge abundance without developing �

our own.

Networked practices = scholarship

!   Scholarship of discovery

!   Scholarship of integration

!   Scholarship of application

!   Scholarship of teaching

!

(Boyer, 1990)

Networks allow participation outside academic hierarchy

Sometimes…I’ll choose someone with twenty

followers, because I come across something they’ve managed to say in 140 characters, and I think “oh, look at you,

crafting on a �grain of rice.”- @KateMfD

h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/visualpanic/843670538

Going forward in networks =

Build on what’s been started here

Be your (many) selves

#DigPed = a scholarship of abundance

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92998734@N03/8466586880/

#DigPed = a story of connection

#DigPed = a scholarship of connection. Of dance.

Ring the bells that still can ring�

Forget your perfect offering�

There is a crack,�

A crack, in everything�

That’s how the light gets in.��

- Leonard Cohen

THANK YOU.

@bonstewart�[email protected]