1. Beyond AltMetrics:
Identities & Influence Online
BONNIE STEWART,
University of Prince Edward Island
#et4online
@bonstewart

2. UPEI, April 20th, 2015

3. networked scholarship
higher
education
what people
had for lunch
my work

4. conceptual tools
h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/zzpza/3269784239/

5. our inheritance = scarcity

6. knowledge abundance
h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/oakleyoriginals/4142641838/

7. "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

8. caution #1: no.

9. caution #2:
abundance can become overload
h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/striaAc/2191408271/

10. “handling of data”

11. WAIT

12. structure of abundance = networks
h"ps://plus.google.com/+DaveGray/posts/CQRVeKEsUvF?pid=5751686447270321954&oid=117373186752666867801

13. h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/ooohoooh/1350774613/
networks are not just for consuming,
but connecting

14. price of admission = public identity

15. many-to-many communications
h"p://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/thumb/d/d8/Do_Not_Adjust_Your_Set.jpg/280px-­‐Do_Not_Adjust_Your_Set.jpg

16. knowledge abundance enables us
to create ourselves as network
nodes, forming webs of visible (&
invisible) connections
h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/mkhmarkeAng/8468788107

17. but.

18. some nodes are more equal
than others.

19. h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/28517410@N02/5422484194/
status & standing

20. networks & institutions
are both reputational economies

21. 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

22. h"ps://plus.google.com/+DaveGray/posts/CQRVeKEsUvF?pid=5751686447270321954&oid=117373186752666867801
networks have their own logics.

23. institutions do not always approve.

24. in abundance…the gates are open
h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/vince2012/14557320666/

25. Priem, Taraborelli, Groth, Neylon, 2010

26. more.
h"p://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ca/2010/06/this-­‐is-­‐why-­‐ill-­‐never-­‐be-­‐adult.html

27. what are the logics & literacies
of networks? what is a
scholarship of abundance? what is
learning in abundance?

28. identities & influence: a study

29. h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelrperry/2221259599
network signals

32. institutional affiliation doesn’t
matter (except Oxford)

33. metrics matter, but not that much

34. individuals cultivate reputation,
visibility, & audience(s)

35. capacity to
contribute to
“The
Conversation”
scale of visibility
common
interests &
disciplines
shared ties
influence = perception of capacity to
contribute

36. + capacity to stand out

37. matter-ing matters
Sometimes…I’ll choose
someone with twenty
followers, because I come
across something they’ve
managed to say in 140
characters, and I think “oh,
look at you, crafting on a
grain of rice.”
- @KateMfD
h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/visualpanic/843670538

38. some voices get to matter more
than others

39. rife with logics of business & media

40. but also logics of care.

41. a scholarship of abundance

42. education = multiple axes of change
knowledge scarcity
knowledge abundance
anytime, anywhere
public funding
markets
set time & place

43. opens the gates of many-to-many
communications
#rhizo15

44. two projects
Palo Alto, CA
October 16th & 17th, 2015
http://linkresearchlab.org/dlrn2015/call-for-proposals/
Madison, WI
http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/

45. what signals will you send?
h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/vinothchandar/5251078306

46. thank you
@bonstewart
J