5. The Culture Shift
∗ Arab Spring
∗ The Stephen Fry Twitter Phenomenon
∗ Blur – single launch
∗ Rio 2012 – 1992
∗ In excess of 500 million users by April 2012
6. What the devil is this befuddling tool
of wonder?
∗ 140 characters – ‘tweets’
∗ On your desktop or mobile device
∗ Integrated – e.g. iPad
∗ ‘Friends’ and ‘Followers’
∗ Sharing information
∗ Social
15. Acceptability
∗ What am I saying?
∗ To whom am I saying it?
∗ What about student usage?
∗ Private Vs Public speech
∗ The Law – ‘flaming’ – Twitter Joke Trial
16. Twitter Joke Trial
∗ Paul Chambers
∗ Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week
and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m
blowing the airport sky high!!
17. The Communications Act 2003
∗ A person is guilty of an offence if he—
∗ (a) sends by means of a public electronic
communications network a message or other matter
that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or
menacing character; or
∗ (b) causes any such message or matter to be so
sent.
18. Status
∗ Who am I?
∗ Teacher?
∗ Researcher?
∗ Husband? Wife? Civil Partner?
∗ Manager? Celebrity? Politician? Academic?
∗ Breaking out of the Academy?
∗ Challenging ‘professionalisation’ of academia?
19. What are the boundaries?
∗ Identity
∗ Authenticity?
∗ Goffman – ‘performance’ of identity
∗ Cownie – application to the Law Teacher
∗ @uoslec2012