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Academic Twitter: The Intersection of Orality & Literacy in Scholarship? Bonnie Stewart University of Prince Edward Island @bonstewart LSE NetworkED January 20 th , 2016

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Academic Twitter: The Intersection of Orality & Literacy

in Scholarship?

Bonnie Stewart University of Prince Edward Island

@bonstewart LSE NetworkED

January 20th, 2016

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(photo credit: Kate Inglis)

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scholarship what people had for lunch

“Academic Twitter”

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Academic Twitter = a complex, messy story of

identity & publics

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Told with thanks to David Bowie, 1947 – 2016

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…and Walter Ong, 1912 – 2003.

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1. Digital Identity, the Bowie model

SO I TURNED MYSELF TO FACE ME

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Who are we when we’re online?

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In institutional structures, an

individual has a role.

In a networked culture, an individual

has an identity, which it is his/her job

to differentiate.

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Caveat: you do NOT need to use Twitter to have a viable

academic career.

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Serial Selves

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The personal/professional divide is

blurring

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Crowdsourcing selves

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fragmented public identities

hypervisibility

celebrity

WE CAN BE HEROES?

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…even among academics

“My boss is scared of my social media presence because it’s a form of soft power; they’re scared to lose me because it would

be so visible.” - @thesiswhisperer, 2014

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FASHION: Memes & Citation

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Quantified Selves

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Magpie selves

“Never wear a new pair of shoes in front

of him.” - Mick Jagger

on David Bowie

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& behind-the-scenes glimpses

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Performative digital identities unsettle our illusions of a unified Self

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SO WE BITCHED ABOUT HIS FANS AND SHOULD WE CRUSH HIS SWEET HANDS?

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Lupton,2014

2. Digital publics, the Academic Twitter model

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Academia & social media are both reputational economies

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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

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AND THE PAPERS WANT TO KNOW WHOSE SHIRT YOU WEAR

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capacity to contribute to

“The Conversation”

scale of visibility

common interests & disciplines

shared ties

Digital signals = less codified

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Again, identity vs. role

“I really wanted, more than

anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture

that I was living in.” Bowie, 2002

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The gates are open

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Networked publics: many-to-many signals

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THAT WERE NO DJ THAT WAS HAZY COSMIC JIVE…

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…Like a party line with multiple private/public options

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UNDER PRESSURE: Context Collapse (Wesch, 2009; boyd, 2011)

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When your non-institutional ideas land amidst institutional audiences

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Institutions do not always approve.

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The infinite selves of the blank status update are all:

•  Persistent •  Replicable

•  Scalable •  Shareable

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“Online Shaming?”

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WAIT

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…where Ong comes in.

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Oral Tradition

•  Participatory •  Situational •  Social •  Formulaic •  Agonistic •  Rhetorical

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Literate Tradition

•  Interiorized •  Abstracted •  Innovative •  Precise •  Analytic •  Indexical

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Ong’s secondary orality + secondary literacy

“The network message from one person to another / others

is very rapid and can in effect be in the present…textualized verbal

exchange registers psychologically as having the temporal immediacy

of oral exchange.” Ong, 1996

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Speech-based expectations

Call Out Culture = Collapsed Publics

Print-based interpretations

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“Tactical Twitter” is not one single phenomenon

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PUTTING OUT FIRE…WITH GASOLINE

Hashtags + Public voice + Positional identities =

Fraught public sphere

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h#p://www.theatlan[c.com/technology/archive/2015/11/conversa[on-smoosh-twi#er-decay/412867/

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“Being stripped of your personhood to stand in the gap for a group of people against your

will is rage-inducing…you were busy living and laughing and being a wholly fallible

human being. It is horrible to lose a job for that.

It is a privilege to have never before lost a job for that.”

McMillan-Cottom, 2014

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So. Stay off the internet, & live

happily ever after,

academics? J

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Call out culture crosses online/offline boundaries

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NOT a Bowie strategy:

Bowie, 2000: “The potential of what the internet is going to do society – both good and bad – is

unimaginable. I think we’re actually on the cusp of something exhilarating and

terrifying.”

Interviewer: “It’s just a tool isn’t it?”

Bowie: “No it’s not - it’s an alien life form. Is there Life on Mars? Yes, it’s just landed here.”

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What do networked identities + collapsed publics

MEAN for academia?

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BEWARE THE SAVAGE JAW OF 1984

NEVER LOOK BACK, WALK TALL, ACT FINE

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Academic Twitter allows participation outside hierarchy

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

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Networked identities = new forms of vulnerability

commodification + institutional indictments of deviance + re-inscription of societal biases

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In a system that relies on free labour within an increasingly precarious

profession

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Who is standing in the gap?

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Networked practices = scholarship

•  Scholarship of discovery •  Scholarship of integration

•  Scholarship of application •  Scholarship of teaching

!

(Boyer, 1990)

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But a scholarship of abundance

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…and care

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Networks are becoming institutionalized

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ASHES TO ASHES

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We are not Bowie.

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GIVE ME YOUR HANDS

VISION: Digital Literacies for scholars & students

•  Digital Strategy for systems •  OER & Open Access Literacies for scholars, students

& systems •  Professional Learning/staff development for

portfolio careers

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…and don’t panic

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ALL THE NOBODY PEOPLE AND ALL THE SOMEBODY PEOPLE NEVER THOUGHT I’D NEED SO MANY PEOPLE…

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THANK YOU.

@bonstewart [email protected]

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