Digital Identities, Connections& Communities: Emerging Trends

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May 27th, 2011

Bonnie StewartUniversity of Prince Edward Island

In the Open:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveduarte/3420117809

The times, they are a' Changing

Directions? Mass collaboration: digital

technologies make cooperation possible & economical

Peer production: creating value without institutions or $ incentive

Architecture of participation: getting people involved with design or production means a ready-made market

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tyom/4257439587/

Implications for Open & Distance Learning and Continuing Education?

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Economic Social

Educational

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21st Century Convergence

The Creative Economy

“Members of the creative class...work in a wide variety of industries - from technology to entertainment, journalism to finance, high-end manufacturing to the arts. They...share a common ethos that values creativity, individuality, difference, and merit.”

- Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, 2003

Scott Beale / Laughing Squid

This is not about online learning.

This is about effective communications

aseffective community-building.

This is also not about Facebook.(except for groups & pages)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/2311507516/

Instead of becoming a separate cyberspace, our electronic networks are becoming deeply embedded in real life.

Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, p.196.

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Social = Networks & Connectedness

Erica Marshall of muddyboots.org

Connecting is Sharing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/sizes/z/in/photostream/

Digital Identity:The 'face' one wears and

the voice one speaks with.

Cumulative.

Searchable.

Continually interacted with and reflected by others.

Your identity is public, whether you like it or not.Your identity is public, whether you like it or not.Own it.Own it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/2191408271/sizes/z/in/photostream/

Lesson #1: Be human

Lesson #2: Use your strengths

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Effective networking is about literacies, not technologies.

Past networks were local

Now they are global

Greater amplification Greater reach

Greater unpredictability

But. Existing connections are your most

valuable asset.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/1344619788/

Lesson #3: start now

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniloramosweb/3854330282/

Digital Identity allows you to participate in a participatory economy.

But networks & communities don't build themselves.

Bonnie Stewart, @bonstewart

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