The document discusses Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus, capital, symbolic violence, and doxa and how they relate to the academic research process. It explores how social media and digital technologies have changed the landscape of academic research, creating new forms of capital, acts of domination and resistance. Bourdieu's theoretical framework is used as a method to analyze these changes and resulting conflicts as the field evolves with the growing participatory web.

1. The Ph.D journey
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2. Motivation
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3. Rosy views of
Social Media
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4. Narrative Inquiry
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5. Pierre Bourdieu
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6. Field
• Fields as spaces of struggle have “their own
rules, histories, star players, legends and lore”
(Thomson, 2008, p.69)
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7. Habitus
“ (…) the habitus, a product of history, produces
individual and collective practices – more
history”. (Bourdieu, 1990a, p.54).
“(…)as an acquired system of generative
schemes, the habitus makes possible the free
production of all the thoughts, perceptions and
actions inherent in the particular conditions of
its productions” (Bourdieu, 1990a, p. 55),
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8. Capital
• social capital (change and increase of network links and
social bonds; interrelationship amongst individuals)
• cultural capital exists in an embodied state (dispositions,
principles and values); an objectified state (physical,
cultural assets individuals acquire also within their family
and social circles); and also in an institutionalised state
(institutionalised recognition, often typified by educational
qualifications)
• Economic capital (epitomised mainly by financial wealth).
• Symbolic capital (a form of prestige, reputation and
distinction that is automatically translated into economic
capital)
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9. Symbolic Violence
doxa
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10. Social Theory as Method
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11. The Participatory Web in the
context of academic research:
Landscapes of change and conflicts
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15. The habitus of digital Scholars
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16. Modes of domination
vs
acts of resistance
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17. Playing the game
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18. What does it mean to:
•Knowledge
•Practice
•Policy
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19. Final reflections
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