This is MeDigital Identity and Reputation for Academics
Professor Shirley Williams
University of Reading, UK
Workshop on Users, e-Research, and Web 2.0, Oxford January 2010
Rugby and Reputation
rugby www.rugby-pioneers.comhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/60892750@N00/4181066513/sizes/o/in/set-72157594271646013/
Would Babbage Have Blogged?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Babbage_1860.jpg
Identity and Performance
• “...all human identities are by definition social identities. Identifying ourselves or others is a matter of meaning, and meaning always involves interaction: agreement and disagreement, convention and innovation, communication and negotiation.” Jenkins, 2004
• “…using the term ‘performance’ to refer to all the activity of an individual which occurs during a period …before a particular set of observers…” Goffman, 1959
Academic Identity 1
The Academic’s work:• Lectures• Letters• Papers• etc
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babbage_difference_engine.JPG
Academic Identity 2
Others• Joint work• Peer review• Citations• Funding• etc
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Ada_lovelace.jpg
Digital Identity
• We use the term "digital identity" (DI) to describe the persona an individual presents across all the digital spaces that he/she is represented in (performances in Digital Places)
Digital Academic Identity
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredcavazza/3428921418/
Have you ever Googled yourself?
Or Binged a Visiting Academic
Findings
• Material that the participant had posted themselves (and maybe forgotten);
• Material posted by other people (that maybe the participant was unaware of).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spine/2076729686/
Question
What has the most impact:• A journal paper cited 10 times?• A blog post linked to from100 places?• A tweet seen by 10,000?
Look After Your Digital Identity
• Don’t think you can hide
• Keep track of accounts you set up
• Consider separate identities for work and play
• Think before you post
or someone else may do
This Is Me - Outputs
Website
http://reading.ac.uk/thisisme
Workbook
Games
Leaflets
By-products
• Use by other universities
• Re-purposed by Nancy White for NPO/NGO Folks
• Arabic
translation
Acknowledgements
• The This is Me Project was originally funded by Eduserv; now funded by CCMS
• Team members include: Pat Parslow, Sarah Fleming, Richard Hussey, Karsten Lundqvist, David Stanbury, Finbar Mulholland and Sarah Morey
• Other contributors are from the University of Reading and beyond
Thank you
You can find me at:Email:[email protected], delicious, Skype:shirleyearleyBlog:http://redgloo.sse.reading.ac.uk/ssswills/weblogSecond Life: Rosie Luna
etc
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