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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin Digital Champions, NUIG, 18 Feb 2016

workshop for students as part of Digital Champions

student-staff partnership

@DigiChampsNUIG @EXPLOREnuigsu

@nuigalway

4 #hashtags

#ge16 #hometovote #refugees #digilit

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each time I facilitate this

workshop I begin with a few

screenshots of tweets with

different hashtags (e.g. political,

civic, social, research) – always

both topical (“today”) & relevant

for the audience. These few

tweets can then be used as

examples of many of the ideas

discussed later in the

presentation.

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Networked Publics

danah boyd@zephoriadanah.org

space constructed through

networked technologies

the imagined collective which emerges

(people + tech + practice)

Participatory Culture:low barriers to

artistic expression & civic engagement

strong support for creating & sharing

informal mentorship

members believe their contributions matter

social connection

Henry Jenkins@henryjenkinshenryjenkins.org

multimodalmultimedia ✓ voice / choicenetworked ✓ topic / contentsocial ✓ genre / tonepurposeful ✓ space / placecollaborative ✓ time / durationagentic

Participatory Cultureliteracy practices

“I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.”

@Joi Ito (2011)

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networkededucators

networkedstudents

Physical Spaces

Bounded Online Spaces

Open Online Spaces

Higher Education

Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Catherine Cronin, built on original Networked Teacher image by Alec Couros

so… what inhibits you? what inhibits us?

social academic /professional

private public

WHO YOU SHARE with

context collapse

WHO YOU SHARE as

digital identity

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As studies become more contextualised it seems that the real lesson of online identity is not that it transforms identity but that it makes us more aware that offline identity was already more multiple, culturally contingent and contextual than we had appreciated.

Danny Miller (2013) @dannyanth

Photo by George Miller (used with permission)

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digital dualism

physical world digital world ‘REAL’ ‘VIRTUAL’?

...our reality is both technological and organic, both digital and physical, all at once. We are not crossing in and out of separate digital and physical realities, a la The Matrix, but instead live in one reality, one that is augmented by atoms and bits.

Nathan Jurgenson (2011)@nathanjurgenson

Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality

It is wrong to say “IRL” to mean offline: Facebook is real life.

Nathan Jurgenson (2012)The IRL Fetish

so… what to do?

social academic /professional

private public

some ideas for discussion…

Take ownership of your digital identity; think about your online hub(s).

Consider privacy settings & openness; balance between these will vary depending on your aims and the tool you use.

When new to any tool or online space: first observe, listen & learn, then engage in conversations & contribute.

about.me/catherinecronin

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Take ownership of your digital identity; think about your online hub(s).

Consider privacy settings & openness; balance between these will vary depending on your aims and the tool you use.

When new to any tool or online space: first observe, listen & learn, then engage in conversations & contribute.

Enjoy!

Thank you!Catherine Cronin

@catherinecroninslideshare.net/cicronin

about.me/catherinecronin

Referencesboyd, danah (2010) Social network sites as networked publics: Affordances, dynamics, and implications, In Papacharissi, Z. (ed.), Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites, Routledge, New York.

Ito, Joi (2011, December 5) In an open-source society, innovating by the seat of our pants. The New York Times. Jenkins, Henry (2006) Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago.

Jurgenson, Nathan (2011) Digital dualism versus augmented reality. Cyborgology.

Jurgenson, Nathan (2012) The IRL Fetish. The New Inquiry.

Stewart, Bonnie (2015) Open to influence: What counts as academic influence in scholarly networked Twitter participation. Learning, Media and Technology 40(3), pp 1-23.

Stewart, Bonnie (2016) Academic Twitter: The intersection of orality and literacy in scholarship? Slideshare.