Digital identities & citizenship: Leading in the Open
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The document discusses the complexities of digital identities and citizenship in today's open environment, emphasizing the interplay between scholarship, market models, and the risks of commodification in an attention economy. It advocates for the cultivation of open practices and media literacy to navigate challenges while mitigating disadvantages in higher education. The author proposes a collaborative approach to build positive narratives and structures to foster effective participation in the open.
Digital identities & citizenship: Leading in the Open
- 1. DIGITAL IDENTITIES (& Citizenship): Leading in the Open BONNIE STEWART University of Prince Edward Island April 6, 2017 Keene State College, NH
- 2. Me. (idealized digital identity) photo credit: http://www.iamrachelpeters.com/
- 3. My work. (real digital identity)
- 4. Open practice In other words… scholarship what people had for lunch
- 6. knowledge scarcity knowledge abundance open participation public models market models gatekeeping The shift towards Open reflects intersecting tensions
- 7. Leadership = citizenship. Scholarship = citizenship. In the Open…
- 8. This is digital citizenship But it is NOT about technology, per se.
- 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_theory_(education)#/media/File:Islington_College_Multimedia_Lab.jpg “Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.” – Seymour Papert, 1993
- 10. Open citizenship is a practice of SHARING (blog posts, status updates, half-baked ideas, data, vulnerabilities, successes…)
- 11. But also navigating borders & belonging.
- 12. Sharing requires cultivation of audience
- 13. Citizenship… always / already complicated https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-94cf-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
- 14. In the globalized 21st century, not all empires are geopolitical.
- 15. Empires are constructed from money, territory, & information. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrovezini/4995737599
- 16. Identity is the price of admission. https://www.flickr.com/photos/143601516@N03/28011015990http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelotuscarroll/6842167375/
- 20. Our sites of identity & citizenship = commodities in an attention economy. http://jaysimons.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-the-Internet-1-0-427143215
- 21. Our sites of learning, also. .
- 22. Open has benefits for higher ed. https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/30081278011/
- 23. Open also raises issues for higher ed.
- 24. let’s look at being a citizen of the Open. In day-to-day practice…
- 25. Citizenship in the Open =
- 26. Market models
- 27. Open citizenship operates in quantified spaces
- 28. Surveilled spaces “When you work for a company or an institution that collects or trades data, you’re making it easy to surveil people…you’re making it easy to discipline people. You’re making it easy to control people. You’re putting people at risk. You’re putting students at risk.” - Audrey Watters, 2017 http://hackeducation.com/2017/02/02/ed-tech-and-trump
- 30. The prestige economies of open scholarship & conventional scholarship intersect, creating benefits. n an attention economy, visibility matters.
- 31. People without wealth are at a disadvantage. But open citizenship is often built on free labour.
- 32. The more things change… Given that higher ed is already stratified, we need to ensure the Open practices we model do not increase citizens’ disadvantages.
- 34. "For the first time in human history, two related propositions are true. One, it no longer is possible to store within the human brain all of the information that a human needs. Second, it no longer is necessary to store within the human brain all of the information that humans need. Education needs to be geared toward the handling of data rather than the accumulation of data.” - Berlo, 1975
- 35. This demands open content + open practice…+ media literacy http://blogs.ifla.org/lpa/files/2017/01/How-to-Spot-Fake-News-1.jpg
- 36. But media literacy is not enough. If abundance demands the handling of data, not only our media & educational practices need to change, but what we count as KNOWING.
- 37. No gatekeepers = no checks & balances
- 38. Racism, sexism, radicalization of all stripes
- 40. Performative Open practices in participatory space force constant negotiation of identity.
- 41. Different from an institutional role.
- 42. Participatory open citizenship is built through ongoing signals & traces
- 43. But these must compete with distractions…
- 44. Spectacle
- 45. & Mistrust
- 46. * ¤ None of this is new…but it all contributes to an information ecosystem in which people feel cynical and confronted – by difference, by jealousy, by challenges to their worldviews, by blatant efforts to deceive – all in the same spaces.
- 48. Being confronted gets people all up in their feelings
- 49. We need new stories. We don’t have positive cultural narratives for healthy participation in the Open, nor a vision of what that would mean. http://gossipgenie.com/viewpoint-im-a-social-media-addict/
- 50. The more signals & traces we create… The more we likely we are to make someone feel confronted.
- 51. Add in virtue signalling… …and tactical contrarianism
- 52. …and identity spaces that amplify anger at loss of dominance
- 53. Polarization
- 54. So digital citizenship is a total gong show. Close the internet & go home.
- 55. WAIT.
- 56. None of this is new. Not the spectacle. Not the sexism. Not the racism. Not the polarization. We the citizens have made this place.
- 57. To build citizens for abundance & participation, we need to practice collaboration. - Mike Caulfield @holden
- 58. We need to focus our attention on the parts of the Open – and of media, and of society – that are NOT polarized. And build new practices of citizenship
- 59. HOW? There is no simple button to push.
- 60. I have one story.
- 61. The Maritimes, 1920s: company towns, fishing, outmigration
- 62. Moses Coady & Jimmy Tompkins 1. Take the time to understand our circumstances & the structures that shape our prospects 2. Take the risk of working together to put pressure on those structures in the places we can move them
- 63. An adult education movement Literacy, economic cooperation, rural community development, empowerment
- 64. 3 Layer Model: 1. Mass Meetings 2. School For Leaders 3. Study Clubs
- 65. * I want to do it again.
- 66. 3 Layer Model: 1. Global Network 2. Regional Institutional Hubs & Summer Institute 3. Community Workshops & Study Clubs
- 67. #Antigonish2 A way to work together to identify – & put our shoulders to the wheel of – means to effect change. Structures. Narratives. Practices.
- 69. Through a lens of Media Literacy
- 71. Will it solve all our problems? NO
- 72. But it may help us figure out what to do when confronted…
- 73. #4wordstories
- 74. *
- 75. THANK YOU.