More Than Just a “Follower”

How Is Academia Being Influenced by Online Communities of Practice

& Networked Scholarship?

#SMSociety15 ConferenceToronto, Canada July 29, 2015

Panelists

Laura Pasquini@laurapasquini

Rebecca Hogue@rjhogue

Jessica Knott@jlknott

Bonnie Stewart@bonstewart

sava saheli singh@savasavasava#smsociety15panel

Why This Panel?

• Intersections between networks & academia• Impact on research &scholarship• Understand the lens of trust and credibility in

online communities• Influence of the informal on formal

institutions• Access and representation in the networks –

online and offline

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A Typology of Web 2.0 (Bower, 2015)

Where do you “network” online in academia?

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Network InfluenceBonnie Stewart

University of Prince Edward Island

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Metrics of Status

• Where you went to school• Who your supervisor was• Where you’ve published

(& their impact factor) • Your h-index

• Your citation count• The associations you belong to

• Your rank in the academic hierarchy

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Democratizing?

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some nodes are more equal than others

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Networks demand new literacies of influence

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Identities & Influence: A Study

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What do you SEE when you look at a Twitter profile?

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images

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Institutional affiliation doesn’t matter (except Oxford)

longevity

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Shared contexts & standing out

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Collaborative WorkRebecca Hogue

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MobiMOOC Research TeamInge de Waard

Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium

Michael Sean GallagherUniversity of Edinburgh, UK

Apostolos KoutropoulosUniversity of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Nilgün Özdamar Keskin Anadolu University, Turkey

Rebecca J. HogueUniversity of Ottawa, Canada

C. Osvaldo RodriguezUniversidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

Sean C. AbajianCalifornia State University Northridge, USA

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hierarchies of accesssava saheli singh

NYU

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Facilitated ConnectionJessica Knott

Michigan State University

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Organizational PLE

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Experiences

• Visibility– “I saw your project on Twitter, how can I get my

department involved?”• Association

– “You’re from MSU! Let me introduce you to…”• Crowdsourcing and Collaboration

– “Who is interested in writing an article about…”– “What does ‘production’ mean to you in your

work?”

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Communities of Influence Laura Pasquini

University of North Texas

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The Power of a Hashtag

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Jane’s Top 100 Tools

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StudentAffairsCollective.org#sachat

@The_SA_Blog@laurapasquini#smsociety15panel

#sachat Case Study

DTA Visualization of #sachat (Guidry & Pasquini, 2013) @laurapasquini#smsociety15panel

@AcAdvChat Tuesdays 12-1 pm CDT

https://acadvchat.wordpress.com/

#AcAdv Chat Development & Support

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HigherEdLive.com

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Formal Adoption of Informal Practices

myacpa.org

nacada.ksu.edu

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Questions? Thoughts?

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Thanks for the Discussion!

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