A Little Bird Told Me: Social Media and Academic Identity(s)

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A Little Bird Told Me: Social Media and Academic Identity(s) Chris Ashford Reader in Law and Society Faculty of Business and Law @lawandsexuality

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A Little Bird Told Me: Social Media and

Academic Identity(s)Chris Ashford

Reader in Law and SocietyFaculty of Business and Law

@lawandsexuality

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Jorn Barger, ‘weblog’ in 1997

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Peter Merholz – ‘blog’ 1999

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Evan Williams, Biz Stone – Pyra Labs

Twitter - 2006

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Arab Spring The Stephen Fry Twitter Phenomenon Blur – single launch Rio 2012 – 1992

In excess of 500 million users by April 2012

The Culture Shift

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140 characters – ‘tweets’ On your desktop or mobile device Integrated – e.g. iPad ‘Friends’ and ‘Followers’

Sharing information Social

What the devil is this befuddling tool of wonder?

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Mention Favourite Direct Messages (DM) The Hashtag # Follow Friday #ff RT - Retweet HT - HatTip

Twitter Mechanics

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Twitter https://twitter.com/ Echofon http://www.echofon.com/ Tweetdeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ Tweetdeck (yellow)

http://theultralinx.com/2012/03/old-tweetdeck-download.html

Tweetbot http://tapbots.com/software/tweetbot/ Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com/

Platforms

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Using Twitter: Professional

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Using Twitter: Audience & Clarity

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Using Twitter: Personality

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Using Twitter: Engagement & Impact

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Using Twitter: Beyond the Lecture

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Using Twitter: Be Social!

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Acceptability

What am I saying? To whom am I saying it? What about student usage? Private Vs Public speech The Law – ‘flaming’ – Twitter Joke Trial

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Paul Chambers Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve

got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!

Twitter Joke Trial

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A person is guilty of an offence if he— (a)        sends by means of a public

electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or

(b)        causes any such message or matter to be so sent.

The Communications Act 2003

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Who am I? Teacher? Researcher? Husband? Wife? Civil Partner? Manager? Celebrity? Politician? Academic? Breaking out of the Academy? Challenging ‘professionalisation’ of

academia?

Status

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Identity Authenticity? Goffman – ‘performance’ of identity Cownie – application to the Law Teacher

@uoslec2012

What are the boundaries?