Beyond Alt-Metrics: Identities & Influence Online
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Open, participatory online learning and scholarship don't necessarily require credentials as the price of admission, but do demand the construction, performance, and curation of intelligible, public, networked identities. Both academia and social networks are, in effect, ‘reputational economies,' but while scholars and educators are increasingly exhorted to go online, those who do often find that their work and efforts may not be visible or understood within institutional contexts. Likewise, as the academic tradition grapples with sea changes in infrastructure and communications, the terms by which scholarship and learning have been defined and legitimized are being unsettled from within. What signals count as credibility among networked educators and learners? What risks and power relations need to be addressed as part of that process?
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Beyond Alt-Metrics: Identities & Influence Online
- 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
- 5. our inheritance = scarcity
- 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
- 9. caution #2: abundance can become overload h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/striaAc/2191408271/
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
Editor's Notes
- Well yes, I say. There’s scholarship. And there’s what people had for lunch. And I study the intersection of the two.
- And it’s more than just putting work online.. It’s a stretching beyond your institutional role to create identity positions within audiences and networks you may not have known were there…through ongoing networked practices.
- Influence is how we determine the reputation and credibility and essentially the status of a scholar. There are two ways we assess influence: there’s the teeny little group of people who understand what your work really means…and then there’s everybody else, from different fields, who piece together the picture from external signals: what journals you publish in, what school you went to, your citation count, your h-index, your last grant. Things people recognize and trust.
- Reputational logics
- When we talk about influence and reputation and credibility, we are always talking about tangibles and intangibles. In institutional structures and in networked structures. Each of you here has a pretty clear sense of what influence markers count in your field: how to be a credible academic within the institutional context. But influence that has its origins not in premier journals and gatekept structures, but in the free-for-all of online networks?
- New technologies gives us new ways of signaling to each other
- Credibilty