Being a Scholar Now: Digital, Public Scholarship in a

Legacy-Bound Academy

Jessie Daniels, PhD

Data, Social Justice and Humanities ConferenceUniversity of Michigan

October 3, 2014

Twitter: @JessieNYC

#DSJandH

”Disciplinary and subdisciplinary

specialization, and the emphasis on internal

academic communication, peaked

in the late twentieth century. North American

social science is increasingly oriented

outward and focused on pressing public

problems. "

~ Craig Calhoun 2010

changing activism

Jena 6 Protests

Occupy Wall Street

Tahrir Square

changing the scholar-activist

2004

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learning from journalism

pre-21st century, analog, closed, removed from the public

sphere, monastic

“legacy”

This was the only option for publishing.

We typed words & paragraphs on paper.

That technology had some problems.

This was “cut and paste.”

This is where we would go to find & read information.

This is how we looked things up.

Many journals or books not open & accessible.

Measuring “Impact”

How many inches?

expansion of digital technologies

why does the ‘digital’ matter?

publishing is changing

21st century, open, connected to the public sphere, worldly

“digital”

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