A MITH Digital Dialogue
Tuesday, November 2, 12:30-1:45
MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135
“Beyond Friending: @cunycommons and the Emergence of the Social University” by Matthew K. Gold
Beyond Friending: @cunycommons and the Emergence of the Social University
1. Beyond Friending:
@cunycommons and the
Emergence of the Social
University
MITH Digital Dialogue, 2 November 2010
Matthew K. Gold
Assistant Professor of English, New York City College of Technology
Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Program, CUNY Graduate Center
http://mkgold.net @mkgold
5. The CUNY Academic Commons
History, Strategy, Process, Use
The Social University
6. The CUNY Academic Commons
History, Strategy, Process, Use
The Social University
Opportunities, Barriers, Openings
7. The CUNY Academic Commons
History, Strategy, Process, Use
The Social University
Opportunities, Barriers, Openings
Building a Wider Commons
8. The CUNY Academic Commons
History, Strategy, Process, Use
The Social University
Opportunities, Barriers, Openings
Building a Wider Commons
Communities, Publics, Possibilities
10. City University of
New York (CUNY)
23 Colleges
11 Senior Colleges
6 Community Colleges
6,700 Full-Time Faculty Members
243,000 degree-credit students
273,000 continuing and professional
education students
47% of undergrads have a native language
other than English
41% percent work more than 20 hours a
week
63% attend school full time
15% support children.
60% percent female
29% are 25 or older.
Of first-time freshmen:
37% are born outside the U.S. mainland
70% attended NYC public high schools
source: cuny.edu
11. City University of
New York (CUNY)
23 Colleges
11 Senior Colleges
6 Community Colleges
6,700 Full-Time Faculty Members
243,000 degree-credit students
273,000 continuing and professional
education students
47% of undergrads have a native language
other than English
41% percent work more than 20 hours a
week
63% attend school full time
15% support children.
60% percent female
29% are 25 or older.
Of first-time freshmen:
37% are born outside the U.S. mainland
70% attended NYC public high schools
source: cuny.edu
12. City University of
New York (CUNY)
23 Colleges
11 Senior Colleges
6 Community Colleges
6,700 Full-Time Faculty Members
243,000 degree-credit students
273,000 continuing and professional
education students
47% of undergrads have a native language
other than English
41% percent work more than 20 hours a
week
63% attend school full time
15% support children.
60% percent female
29% are 25 or older.
Of first-time freshmen:
37% are born outside the U.S. mainland
70% attended NYC public high schools
source: cuny.edu
13. City University of
New York (CUNY)
23 Colleges
11 Senior Colleges
6 Community Colleges
6,700 Full-Time Faculty Members
243,000 degree-credit students
273,000 continuing and professional
education students
47% of undergrads have a native language
other than English
41% percent work more than 20 hours a
week
63% attend school full time
15% support children.
60% percent female
29% are 25 or older.
Of first-time freshmen:
37% are born outside the U.S. mainland
70% attended NYC public high schools
source: cuny.edu
14. City University of
New York (CUNY)
23 Colleges
11 Senior Colleges
6 Community Colleges
6,700 Full-Time Faculty Members
243,000 degree-credit students
273,000 continuing and professional
education students
47% of undergrads have a native language
other than English
41% percent work more than 20 hours a
week
63% attend school full time
15% support children.
60% percent female
29% are 25 or older.
Of first-time freshmen:
37% are born outside the U.S. mainland
70% attended NYC public high schools
source: cuny.edu
15. City University of
New York (CUNY)
23 Colleges
11 Senior Colleges
6 Community Colleges
6,700 Full-Time Faculty Members
243,000 degree-credit students
273,000 continuing and professional
education students
47% of undergrads have a native language
other than English
41% percent work more than 20 hours a
week
63% attend school full time
15% support children.
60% percent female
29% are 25 or older.
Of first-time freshmen:
37% are born outside the U.S. mainland
70% attended NYC public high schools
source: cuny.edu
16. source: Newman Library, Baruch College http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2001/history/book/chap_07/nyt_75_11_16.htm
19. The CUNY Academic Commons
• What it is
• Why we created it
• What has worked
• What hasn’t worked
• How it’s changing the culture of the university
52. “we judge our tools by one key metric
above all others: use. Successful tools are tools
that are used.
“
Tom Scheinfeldt
“Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 2, Use.” Found
History. 2 August 2010. <http://www.foundhistory.org/
2010/08/02/lessons-from-one-week-one-tool-part-2-use/>
“
87. Build recursive publics
“Free Software . . . is not simply a technical pursuit but also the
creation of a ‘public,’ a collective that asserts itself as a check on
other constituted forms of power—like states, the church, and
corporations—but which remains independent of these domains of
power. Free Software is a response to this reorientation that has
resulted in a novel form of democratic political action, a means by
which publics can be created and maintained in forms not at all
familiar to us from the past. Free Software is a public of a particular
kind: a recursive public. Recursive publics are publics concerned
with the ability to build, control, modify, and maintain the
infrastructure that allows them to come into being in the first place
and which, in turn, constitutes their everyday practical
commitments and the identities of the participants as creative and
autonomous individuals.”
– Christopher Kelty, Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free
Software (2008)
89. Build generative communities
“Generativity is a system’s capacity to produce unanticipated
change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied
audiences. . . . Generativity pairs an input consisting of unfiltered
contributions from diverse people and groups, who may or may not
be working in concert, with the output of unanticipated change.”
– Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It
(2008)