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Open Practice: Cheers & Challenges for Connected Scholarship
This document discusses challenges and opportunities of open scholarship in today's networked culture. It notes that while openness enables greater human connection and contribution, the public nature of online spaces can lead to risks like harassment, commercial exploitation of data, and the weaponization of information. However, the document argues that open scholarship remains important for building an informed society and democratic participation, and that scholars should work to shape practices of openness in a way that addresses modern challenges. Overall, the document weighs both benefits and risks of open scholarship online.
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Open Practice: Cheers & Challenges for Connected Scholarship
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- 3. How are wegonna shape our OWN scholarly practice to be more open?
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- 7. Open as about MOREthan content…
- 8. …open as aboutCONNECTION. HUMAN-to-HUMAN
- 9. In institutional cultures, an individualhas a role. In an open, networked culture, an individual has an identity, which it is their job to differentiate.
- 10. …anybody ever write ona bathroom wall?
- 11. The web gaveus the world’s largest imaginable bathroom wall. YAY open scholarship! (welcome to my, uh, office)
- 12. Networks participatory networks =structure of the web
- 13. …what if youcould engage with leaders in your field every day?
- 14. (blog posts, status updates, half-baked ideas, papers,data, vulnerabilities, successes…) Open = a practice of sharing
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- 16. Contribution + Connection “Sometimes…I’llchoose someone with 20 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 https://www.flickr.com/photos/visualpanic/843670538
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- 22. The public toiletmetaphor = apt?
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- 25. But the socialcontract has no teeth.
- 26. then in quicksuccession… the monetization era
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- 30. “You’re doing itwrong”
- 31. “The more dangeroussocial-web-fueled gamification of trolling is the unofficial troll/hate leader-board. The attacks on you are often less about scoring points against you than that they’re trying to out-do one another. They’re trying to out-troll, out-hate, out-awful the other trolls.” - Sierra (2014) “You do not deserve attention”
- 32. “You do notdeserve to live” - Solon (2014)
- 36. So. It’s ALL atoilet. Should we just retreat to our ivory towers?
- 38. NOT because we’rewrong to maybe want to… “The Luddites are merely a placeholder for an idea: that opponents of technological “progress” are ridiculous, misguided, and doomed. Never mind that the Luddites were not opposed to new technology, only to the disempowering and inequitable deployment of new technology.” – Sacasas (2017)
- 39. https://www.flickr.com/photos/joybot/18968867088 But many ofus can’t get IN to the tower anymore. Or never could.
- 40. And knowledge isno longer confined there by material scarcity..
- 42. So. When THEYmine data & undermine democracy… WE build open connections in a weaponized culture?
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- 45. None of theweb’s challenges are new. Not the spectacle. Not the sexism. Not the racism. Not the polarization. We the citizens have made this place.
- 46. To build asociety literate in its own participatory structures & surveillance tools, we need open, public, visible scholars.
- 50. Public spaces – opento all – can serve needs that no other structures in society can.
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