What does academic influence mean in an age of information abundance? This keynote delivered at the University of Edinburgh's #elearninged conference explores the idea of authenticity in the context of networked scholarship, and outlines ongoing research into why scholars use networks and how they read each others' reputations and credibility within them.
6. Those within the academy become
very skilled at judging the stuff of
reputations. Where has the person’s work
been published, what claims of
priority in discovery have
they established, how often have they been
cited, how and where reviewed, what
prizes won, what institutional ties earned,
what organizations led?
(Willinsky, 2010)
10. dissemination
of knowledge
what people
had for lunch
CHANGE IN
HIGHER ED
Premise:
Online networks enable different forms of
identity, legitimacy, and belonging
than institutions do
39. literacies for understanding academic
networked publics
Institutions Networks
product-focused process-focused
mastery participation
bounded by time/space always accessible
hierarchical ties peer-to-peer ties
plagiarism crowdsourcing
authority in role authority in reputation
audience = institutional audience = world