5. Openness and praxis:
A situated study of academic staff
meaning-making & decision-making with respect to openness
and
use of open educational practices
in higher education
PhD research study completed April 2018
9. Balancing privacy and openness
will I share openly?
whom will I share with?
who will I share as?
will I share this?
MACRO
MESO
MICRO
NANO
10. Balancing privacy and openness
will I share openly?
whom will I share with? (context collapse)
who will I share as? (digital identity)
will I share this?
MACRO
MESO
MICRO
NANO
12. Right to privacy
❌ ✅
spatial
universal
binary
appropriate flow of
personal information
i.e. right to
contextual integrity
Nissenbaum (2004) Privacy as contextual integrity
Nissenbaum (2010) Privacy in context: Technology, policy, and the integrity of social life
13. What matters is not merely that a particular
technical device/system is not overly unusual,
but that its use in a particular context,
in a particular way is not overly unusual.
Helen Nissenbaum (2010)
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17. We must rebuild institutions that value humans’
minds and lives and integrity and safety.
Audrey Watters (2017)
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18. Use of open educational practices (OEP) is:
Complex
Personal
Contextual
Continually negotiated
19. Le spectre de la rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division
from the New York Public Library (public domain)
To hope is to give
yourself to the future,
and that commitment
to the future
makes the present
inhabitable.
Rebecca Solnit (2004)
Hope in the Dark
“
20. Le spectre de la rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division
from the New York Public Library (public domain)
Thank You!
Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin
catherinecronin.net
‘Being open‘ is not a binary state or a one-time decision.
I explored academic staff practices across a continuum of openness...
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People don’t simply want to RESTRICT information flow… but ensure that it flows APPROPRIATELY.
“Personal information” = information about an identifiable person
PRIVACY… as right to CONTEXTUAL INTEGRITY … thus, varies!!!