Scholarly Networks of Care and Conflict
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George Veletsianos presented on academics' online participation and experiences with social media and emerging technologies. He discussed two competing narratives about the internet - as either a monstrous or wondrous place - and focused on the middle ground. Through his research, he found that online networks can be places of both conflict and care/vulnerability for academics. Networks of conflict involve issues around professional identity and participation, while networks of care/vulnerability allow academics to express care for one another online in various forms. Veletsianos' research uncovered themes around personal-professional boundaries, intentional versus imposed online identities, and pressures surrounding social media use.
Scholarly Networks of Care and Conflict
- 1. SLOAN-C Emerging Technologies Conference, Dallas, TX, April 2014 Networks of Care and Conflict: Academics’ Online Participation George Veletsianos, PhD Canada Research Chair Associate Professor School of Education and Technology @veletsianos #et4online
- 2. Two competing narratives of the web
- 3. The web as a monstrous place
- 4. The web as a wondrous place
- 5. A continuum I want to talk about what happens at the middle
- 6. Questions guiding my research • How do academics use emerging technologies (in particular, social media/networks)? • How is digital and open scholarship enacted? • What do current scholarly practices look like? • What is the experience like?
- 7. Digital Scholarship, Open Scholarship, Social Scholarship – Digital Scholarship – Martin Weller – Social Scholarship – Gideon Burton – Christine Greenhow – Networked Participatory Scholarship: the “emergent practice of scholars’ use of participatory technologies and online social networks to share, reflect upon, critique, improve, validate, and further their scholarship” (Veletsianos & Kimmons, 2012, p. 768).
- 8. “Educational Technology,” as a field is plagued with editorials and perspectives Need to move from “state-of-the-art” to “state-of-the- actual” (Selwyn, 2011) Faith-based field? Why you should care #1
- 9. The future of Higher Education is currently being designed. Solutions are frequently not based on evidence. Empirical research will help us improve designs. Why you should care #2
- 10. a worldwide economic downturn globalization and competition changing demographics curtailment of public funding pressures for accountability impact of emerging technologies (Morrison, 2003; Schwier, 2012; Siemens & Matheos, 2010; Spanier, 2010). purpose of education - Employment? Rebirth of edtech Especially important at a time of pressures Socio-political, cultural, and economic pressures
- 11. Social media use is a professional issue 1/2 How do instructors use social media to foster engagement? How can we use online social networks to expand the diversity of a classroom? In what ways can researchers use social media to disseminate their scholarship?
- 14. Social media use goes beyond professional issues 2/2
- 15. Social media use goes beyond professional issues 2/2 What do we do when we are online and why? e.g., Visitors vs. Residents (White & LeCornu, 2011) How does our professional identity impact our participation and how does our participation impact our professional identity?
- 16. In-between the extremes, are stories of people. Stories of academia. Stories that explain who we are as scholars, educators, and people.
- 17. What follows is a summary of two themes from 3+ years of qualitative and ethnographic studies
- 18. Theme #1 Networks of Conflict
- 19. Theme #2 Networks of Care and Vulnerability
- 20. Networks of care & vulnerability Social media and online social networks function as places where (some) academics express and experience care.
- 21. • Caring for one another online takes many forms Networks of care & vulnerability
- 22. Identity
- 23. Digital Identity We create it Intentional web presence Lowenthal & Dunlap (2012) It is created and/or structured for us Acceptable Identity Fragments (Kimmons & Veletsianos, 2014)
- 24. • Personal-professional continuum. • “Sanitized” participation. • Pressures to participate • Other issues? Discussion
- 25. Thank you www.veletsianos.com @veletsianos on Twitter veletsianos at gmail.com This presentation: www.slideshare.com/veletsianos