Athabasca university talk. Main premise: Social media, network, networked participation, and networked practice are too important to ignore. Doctoral students should be exposed to and taught these concepts, regardless of degree area.

1. George Veletsianos, Ph.D.
Canada Research Chair in Innovative
Learning & Technology
Associate Professor
School of Education and Technology
Royal Roads University
September 2013 :: Athabasca University :: Doctoral Seminar
Doctoral Students and
Networked Participation

2. About me

7. Technology & my mom

9. How do you use social media &
online networks in your own work?

10. What are some of the challenges that you are
facing when using/considering use of social
media?

11. Social Media use in education: No
such thing as black and white
(a) SM guided by techno-enthusiasm
and techno-determinism,
(b) SM as tools to question and
circumvent traditional elements of
scholarly practice, and
(c) SM & Networks as transformative
technology.

12. Social Media use in education: No
such thing as black and white
(a) SM guided by techno-enthusiasm
and techno-determinism,
(b) SM as tools to question and
circumvent traditional elements of
scholarly practice, and
(c) SM & Networks as transformative
technology.
Networked Participatory Scholarship
The emergent practice of scholars’ use of participatory
technologies and online social networks to share, reflect
upon, critique, improve, validate, and further their
scholarship (Veletsianos & Kimmons, 2012)

13. Claims & Expectations

14. The concepts of networked participation and
networked practice are too important to ignore.
Doctoral students should be exposed to and taught
these concepts, regardless of degree area.

15. What scholarly activities do
individuals enact on social media?

16. What scholarly activities do
individuals enact on social media?
Announcements
Draft papers
Open textbooks
Syllabi + Activities
Live streaming
Live-Blogging
Collaborative authoring
Debates + commentary
Open teaching
Public P&T materials
The doctoral journey (e.g.,
#PhDChat)
Crowdsourcing

17. The doctoral journey (e.g., #PhDChat) --- Spaces of
gathering

18. Sharing and circumventing systems
PirateUniversity.org
ThePaperBay.com
Reddit.com/r/Scholar

19. Sharing and circumventing systems
PirateUniversity.org
ThePaperBay.com
Reddit.com/r/Scholar
“an act civil disobedience toward
the publishing enterprise” Kroll, 2011

20. Our identity (“digital” identity?)
• Do we create it?
• Is it created and/or structured for us?
Authentic Identity Fragments (Kimmons
& Veletsianos, under review)
 Intentional web presence
Lowenthal & Dunlap (2012)

21. www.veletsianos.com
@veletsianos on Twitter
veletsianos@gmail.com
This presentation:
www.slideshare.com/veletsia
nos

22. Relevant references
Available at http://www.veletsianos/publications
Veletsianos, G. (2013). Open Practices and Identity: Evidence from
Researchers and Educators’ Social Media Participation. British Journal of
Educational Technology, 44(3), 639-651.
Veletsianos, G., Kimmons, R., & French, K. (2013). Instructor experiences with
a social networking site in a higher education setting: Expectations,
Frustrations, Appropriation, and Compartmentalization. Educational
Technology, Research and Development, 61(2), 255-278
Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2013). Scholars and Faculty Members Lived
Experiences in Online Social Networks. The Internet and Higher
Education,16(1), 43-50.
Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Assumptions and Challenges of Open
Scholarship. The International Review Of Research In Open And Distance
Learning,13(4), 166-189
Veletsianos, G. (2012). Higher Education Scholars’ Participation and
Practices on Twitter. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 28(4), 336-
349.
Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Networked Participatory Scholarship:
Emergent Techno-Cultural Pressures Toward Open and Digital Scholarship
in Online Networks. Computers & Education, 58(2), 766-774.

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